Living Until You Die
By Sheila LipseyMarch 22, 2010
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What's going on? Are you in the right place, doing the right thing, headed in the right direction? Is your life on hold or are you seeking God's will and being obedient to His purpose.
I've been doing a great deal of thinking about my life. Recently, I began to feel fearful about the day God calls my number. I've been so fearful that I believe that I've been afraid to live! I know that to some Christian scholars, preachers and theologians that what I said might be demonstrating a lack of faith or trust in God and His sovereignty. Thank God, I don't have to defend myself to any of you, only to my God and savior!
I look back over some of my favorite passages of scriptures and they cause me to think and look back over my life. Some cause me to tremble because I know that I have not always been obedient to God's calling. Now that I am growing older, I thank God that I am truly becoming wiser. Yet, I don't want to be so wise that I become foolish.
I am beginning to understand that all of the mishaps, the mess-ups, the hang-ups and the tangle-ups that I have endured and traversed in my life, have helped to mold me into the person God designed for me to be. I became fearful because I want to be certain to live my moments, seconds, minutes, hours and days doing exactly what God purposed me to do. He is the one who formed me, knew me, even while I was yet in my mother's womb. He is the one who made me unique, an individual, unlike any other human creation on this earth; He is the one who has allowed me to live, breathe and to have the ability to do and to be and to become.
I want to be fully obedient because I do want the fruit of my womb to be continually blessed. I do want to be the head and not the tail. I do want to be above and not beneath. I do want my enemies to scatter seven ways when they come at me one way. I do want to be blessed going in and going out. I want to be the called according to His purpose. I want to live out my life being known as a mighty speaker, writer, and author for God. I want people to see God in me. When people read anything I have written or listen to anything I have to say, I pray that it will reflect God. That is why I must write what God instructs me to write. I must do what He commands me to do. I believe God allowed the overwhelming since of fear to come over me this past week so I could become even stronger and more reliant on Him! He always has a Ram in the Bush for His people.
I know fear is not of God. I know fear is the opposite of faith. But I also know that I am a human, wrapped up and made up of a fragile combination of carnal flesh. This flesh is often weak and it tries to wrap itself around my mind and entangle me and crush me. But I am an heir of the kingdom of God. I am divinely chosen. I am more than a conqueror. So I refuse to give in to fear. I refuse to give in to lack. I refuse to give in to self-condemnation. I ask each of you who read this to step out and live! Live until you die; and when your number is called, when your days have come to an end, you who believe that He is who He says He is; and that He did what the Word of God says He did; and believe that you are His; will join Him eternally.
So, my fellow readers, when you are worried; or when you are troubled; when you are burdened; when you are tormented; when you are frightened; when you are in peril, still know, trust and believe that God is there in whatever you are facing in life. Times may be hard, but God's people will not be forgotten; He will not have his seed begging for bread. Believe that God is able. You need not fear. You need not worry. There is no victory in fear. There is only victory in Jesus.
His word says in II Corinthians chapter 4 verses 7-12, "But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that his life may be revealed in our mortal body. So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.
My brothers and sisters in Christ, Keep living until you die!
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