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The One-Sided Coin

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The One-Sided Coin

How badly do you want it, and how deeply do you hate it?

Both sides of the coin of the life of one who has been born again, and we carry that coin continuously. How desperately do you want Christ, how much do you desire to be filled continuously with the Holy Spirit, being holy nonstop, obeying in joy all that is placed before you, relishing in the thoughts of eternal peace in His presence. Finally, and forever free from the other side of that coin.

“My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?” (Psalm 42:2)

How deep is your hatred of the lusts that sometimes consume you, the thoughts of your old sinful nature that attempts to draw you away from the path set before you? The temptations of our adversary, the world that calls you to join them in their revelry of passions, the desires outside of the will of the Almighty for you that draws your mind away from righteousness?

How desperately do you desire to be a profitable servant, and how much do you hate everything that tries to keep you from being so?

That is our walk my friends, it is the path of every one of your brothers and sisters in Christ, and the way to the strait gate that everyone who has sought for it chose that came before us. The pinnacle of love and the epitome of hate.

“O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?” (Romans 7:24)

It is not a coin that you flip each day to see which way your life will go in the present, it is one that you must choose, and understand this truth, as long as you are in the flesh, you will choose both sides of it every day.

A vexed spirit within us is what comes to mind at the moment, both sides of you, of that coin, vying for power, for control, both sides winning and losing each and every day. It seems like a battle, where ground is won and then part of it lost, like the old saying, “Two steps forward, one backwards.”

But for each step lost, one is gained, if you will submit yourself willingly to the will of the Holy Spirit within you, if you choose to keep, as much as possible, that one side of the coin up. A poor analogy, I know, and nothing more than another representation of Romans 7:25.

“I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.”

But it is one that seems to flow continuously through the Scriptures, from Abel desiring to serve well, to Cain serving himself, from those who would follow Moses, because he followed the Lord, to those who thought Korah was right. The fear of the Pharisees or obedience to the Son of God, church traditions, self-will, or the will of the Living God.

The stoney pieces of our heart are not dissolved all at once, and the broken shards prick at us almost continuously. We love and hate in full measure every day.

If you are hid in Christ you carry this coin, it has nothing to do with the moral constructs of what mankind says is right or wrong, what is deemed as acceptable and what is not. It is the will of God and the will of our old sinful nature battling within us.

“For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.” (Col. 3:3)

Another poor analogy for you my friends, when you arrive home, and present your coin to the Savior, He will wipe one side of it clean.

Each day this choice is ours, some days we will choose poorly, the moments of guilt and sorrow will arrive. In those moments turn that coin over, and continue on the path.

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