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Turning your life over to Christ means change. It means you strive daily to live your life Christ like. It means your old man is dead and you become a new creation. Sins forgiven. I find it daunting when I hear many say I am still a baby christian after many years of Sunday services, Bible studies, and prayer meetings. Still clubbing, drinking, having sex outside of marriage and the... list goes on. It means we have made a choice to turn away from a life that appears to have brought us to Christ in the first place but yet, many have not fully committed by choice.

Crying the same cry Sunday after Sunday. Going to the alter for the same pains of life one chooses to participate in. Only praying when a disaster stricks. Only calling on God when things are in an upheaval. If God knocked on your door or called your number, would you be ready, would you answer the call. I am in no way saying we must be perfect, that will never happen but what I am saying is simple, either your in or your out, it is like straddling the fence.

The word of God tells us in Luke 16:13 NLT- No one can serve two masters. For you will hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money. The King James Version in this same verse uses mammon instead of money. The meaning is the same. Choose life or death.

Rambling thoughts.

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