Spiritual Adjustments

 

I have developed a certain level of back pain issues throughout the years.  I have also  developed osteoporosis.  In an attempt to counteract pain I go to my chiropractor once a week for an adjustment and alignment.  I also go to a massage therapist every other week. At one time I only went to the chiropractor once a month, but over time it became necessary to go more often.  When one repeatedly uses ones body when it is not properly aligned, ones body may try to compensate and hence, may cause further injury and damage.

We also need to be spiritually aligned. It is so easy to tell ourselves half truths or negative stories about our current circumstances.  It is easy to allow the devil to whisper discouraging thoughts about our day to day situations and trials.  Instead we need to flip the negative script in our minds, to change our mindset, and to remind ourselves of God's precious promises regarding the Lord God's faithfulness and unfailing love.  In order to do this, we need to actually know what the Lord has promised in His Word, and we need to daily dig deeply into His Word.  Further, we need to think of our trials as light and temporary. Finally, we need to remember that good things like endurance and spiritual growth develops through difficult times in our lives.  This is how spiritual alignment takes place in the Christian's life.

We can still further flip our negative script about difficult seasons in our lives and become more spiritually aligned with God and His Word by praising Him for whom He is in His character as revealed in the Bible.  We also need to agree with whom He says we are.  We further need to remember all He has done for us by purchasing our salvation and in His contanst faithfulness in our lives. We can further take a small step forward in obedience, and share our difficult seasons with others around us.  

In conclusion, we need to reject what the world promotes to be true, and we must embrace what God says is true in His Word.  I talked about that in my blog post last week.  The link for that blog post can be found below:

https://christiancaregiving.blogspot.com/2025/10/what-world-says-vs-what-lord-says.html

 

What the World Says Vs What the Lord Says

 

Recently our woman's Sunday school class received a handout emphasizing the differences between what the world says about life and the truths that God says about life.  For the purpose of this blog post I am going to discuss these differences today. 

The world says we need to hustle or work harder.  God's Word tells us in Proverb 3:5-6, however, to trust the Lord God and to not lean on or trust our own understanding of things.  It commands us submit to the Lord, and promises that in doing so the Lord will make our paths straight.  He will direct our paths in the right way to go.  The world tells us to manifest our goals and destiny and that we must determine our life's path. James1:17 reminds us. however,that everything good comes from the Lord God alone, and Proverbs16:9 reminds us that it is God alone who determines and establishes our steps.

The world tells us to get what we want by putting ourselves first.  God tells us, however, in James 4:6 that God elevates or shows fovor to the humble and opposes the proud.  The world says success equals achievement. The Lord God, however, declares in Colossians 3:23 that success is everyday faithfulness.

The world says that life is short and to live for oneself.  It says to live for pleasure and the now.  The world says one's life is one's own. God says we belong to Him and that we should live for the hope of Eternity..  It also says that things work together according to God's purpose for those who believe in Him.  God further finally says that it is He who holds all things together.   (1 Peter 1:3, 1 Corinthians 6:19-20, Romans 8:28 and Colossians 1:17)

 God and His Word is always truthful.  God and His Word will never fail.  Trust what the Lord God says and not what the world says.

Abide in the Vine, Jesus

 

Scripture in the first few verses of the Gospel of John chapter 15 speaks of the necessity of abiding in the Vine, Jesus, in order for our lives to be joyful, productive, and fruitful.  Without our dependence on the Lord and our clinging to Him our lives will be of little significance.  They also will hold little joy.  Clinging to Jesus is the only source of these kind of blessings or fruit in our lives.

In a world of trials, unrest, wars, and violence it is especially important to be clinging to the Lord Jesus.  He is our only resource for sanity and grace in this world and in our lives. I talked about this in my blog post last week.  If you want to read or reread that post, you can find the link below:

https://christiancaregiving.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-cross-alone.html

The Cross Alone

 

There is much that is evil and destructive in our world and in our nation.  There are brutal and highly destructive wars, school and workplace shootings, and racial and political hatred.  It often feels as if these things are only getting worse.  Yet this is not happening for no reason.  It is happening, because people refuse to acknowledge, worship, and serve the Lord God.

Sin entered the  world many years ago. We read that in the early chapters of Genesis, the first book of the Bible. God created the world perfect and "very good." God's world was beautiful and without any flaws.  Creation is still beautiful, but because it has become flawed by sin, it is no longer perfect.  We now experience hurricanes, storms, floods, and other "natural" disasters.

As we said before, there is also much sin in the hearts of mankind.  In fact, mankind is now totally corrupt.  When God made the world He not only made the outside creation perfect and good, but He made the first people, Adam and Eve, perfect and good.  In fact, Adam and Eve had perfect dailly fellowship with God.  There came a point when Adam and Eve, however, chose to disobey one simple command from the Lord.  Satan also convinced them that they could become like God  instread of submitting to and worshipping Him.  And so sin entered the world, and all of us are sinners. 

Although Adam and Eve suffered serious consequences all their lives, and even though all mankind fell into sin; God immediately promised to send a Savior. That promise was repeated over and over in the Old Testament of the Bible.  Finally. over 2,000 years ago Jesus Christ was sent to the world in fulfillment of that promise.

And so Jesus came to this world and lived a perfect sinless life for us that we could not live.  He then died on the cross to  pay for our sins.  He suffered hell on the cross for us.  God. the Father, poured all His anger against our sins on Him.  Jesus Christ redeemed us!  Will you choose to accept His free gift of salvation, if you  have not already done so?  The rewards are eternal, and the consequences for not doing so are dire both in this life and for all of eternity.  Life as a child of God is not free from pain and trials. In fact, the Lord says we will have trials in our earthly life.  Yet He also promises to always be with us and to bring us to our eternal homes one day.