“The story is told about an elderly man who retired after many years in the Army. One day a man who knew about his long and distinguished military career decided to play a prank on him. As the old soldier walked down the street with his arms full of packages, the jokester sneaked up behind him and shouted, "Attention!" Without hesitation, the military man dropped his arms to his side, and every package went tumbling to the sidewalk. Without a conscious thought, the veteran was doing what comes naturally for a soldier.”
As Christian who believe in all that Jesus has taught us we to should act in a similar manner. We should be able to act more and more like the life of Christ. We still deal with temptations and sinful desires that come up, and because of that we need to train ourselves to act as God wants us to be. Like a solider or athlete in training we need to practice repeatedly until doing what’s right comes naturally without conscious thought.
There will be times in all of our lives where we make a big choice for God or for Satan. Maybe it’s going to be a choice of a person you marry, a item you buy, a job you take, or maybe you will be asked to deny Christ. In order for us to make that choice for God we need to be training ourselves daily on the small things in life.
With your faith in God and all that he has taught us, with your understanding in Christ in how he has shown us to live, we should all be developing habits of submitting to God’s word. Then in every situation of life we will find that obeying God’s will is doing what comes naturally.
Proverbs 3:5-6
5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
6 in all your ways submit to him,
and he will make your paths straight.
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