#It's not hard,#transgressor,#turn,#playing

Living for the Lord is really not hard.  It only becomes a challenge when the heart and mind is not made up to live right.  The Bible says a double minded man is unstable in all his ways (James 1:8).  When one is double minded, the desire is there to sever two masters, the flesh and God.  What makes it hard is the fact that it can't be done.  When you try and serve one, the other suffers.  When you turn and server the other, the one suffers.  So, the soul is turmoil from all the turning back and forth.

But if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new (II Corinthians 5:17).

It is not said much any more but it yet still holds true.  The phrase born again.  In order to become a new creature in Christ Jesus one must become born again.  Nicodemus asked Jesus about it.  He wanted to know how a man could enter a second time into his mothers womb.  He was looking at it in the natural.  Jesus was looking at it in the Spirit.  Being born again of the water and the spirit.  New creature.  No longer living after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

When a person becomes born again, the old things are no longer of interest.  When a person becomes born again, the Word of God becomes precious. Going to Church becomes precious.  Having a relationship with Jesus Christ becomes precious.  Singing unto the Lord becomes precious.  Old things are passed away.

It is not hard living for the Lord.  You just have to repent of the sin in your life, get baptized in the Name of Jesus for the remission of the sins repented of and received the Holy Ghost.  A new creature.

It's not hard.

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