Two Things Every Christian Should Do
Everyone who wants to follow Jesus Christ should first commit himself to obey the Lord in all things. There must be the absolute surrender of discipleship. And there should also be some definite commitments made about many areas of Christian activity, service, and behavior.
We should forsake our sins, and plan not to go back to them. We should firmly resolve to do specific things about church attendance, Bible reading, daily prayer, witnessing for Christ, family duties, and other matters of duty. We should determine to live by patterns of behavior that shut the Devil out. Every one of us should forsake all and follow Jesus, and decide definitely to do it.
Then we should confess to the Lord that in our flesh dwells no good thing, and that in ourselves we do not have the power to keep the commitments we have made. Discipleship (with its discipline) fails without abiding in Christ. So we must start relying on Christ for the victory we need to live as His disciples. Read about that victory in Roman 6-8. Believe that your weakness is a platform for the display of His strength (II Corinthians 12:9). Get up in the morning with a new commitment to do what you ought to do, and then turn to Jesus for the power to do it
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