I'm good

Deuteronomy 13:5 "And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death; because he has spoken to turn you away from The Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust you out of the way which The Lord your God commanded you to walk in. So put away the evil from your midst."

We should start this week off stating that "I'm good." As we already know, it is inevitable to keep people from doing or speaking evil to us and against us. Regardless of that known fact, we are indeed able to rebuke such evil in our lives. God has granted us the power to remove anything and anyone that will try to keep us from what we know is right and true. Travel on down to The New Testament in the Gospel of  Matt. 16:19. There Jesus tells Peter and us that He has freely given us keys to the kingdom of Heaven. How generous is that? To give our wretched selves keys to make life altering and powerful changes just by the words of our mouth, yet we do not use them as we should.

This passage is a warning to us not to allow false witnesses to set up camp within our minds and hearts that we claim Jesus inhabits. There are plenty people whom satan has sent out whispering in our ears telling us "God told me to tell you this" or "I had a dream that you would give me fifty dollars". At some point we must ask which "god" are you referring to because my God has not revealed that to me. Seeing how we are living after the church has been established and Jesus has torn the veil, we too have access to hear God. The time has passed when we had to go to a high priest to hear from God. God is always speaking, we just have to be listening and some things are not worth bothering our ear drums. Perhaps the real false witness is you. You may have come up with a hunch or may be trying to put some things together that just do not mix. We can be so keen on making something happen that we get it mixed up with what God will make happen.

So it states that since God has brought you out to put away whatever may cause you to revert back to evil deeds or an evil mindset. Going against God in general is evil. We do not have to be killers or robbers to be considered evil or to be thought of as committing evil. Whatever we do that is not right in the eye sight of God is evil, period. There is no respect of sin in God's Eyes. Whatever is keeping us or trying to negate us from what we know is true we should immediately do away with. Just say, I'm good on that! It could be something within or someone on the outside trying to get in. At any rate, we must purge ourselves from all evil, daily. Thank God that nothing can separate us from His love, but that doesn't mean we can't be heavily distracted. Keep your eyes fixed on Jesus. Stay true to you, the you Christ died for you to become! He delivered us the least we can do is keep our end and live for Him and denounce the evil that will try to keep us astray. Have a good week!