Maximizing Our Lives with Maxims and Habits

UV 4125/10000 Maximizing our Lives with Habits We have therefore been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory and power of the Father, we too might walk habitually in newness of life ( abandoning our old ways). Romans 6 v 4 We are dead to sin and temptation as symbolized by our baptism in water where we identified with the death and resurrection of Jesus the Christ. We are deemed sinless though in actual point of fact as long as we dwell in this body of flesh and senses, we cannot be sinless. We cannot be sinless but we can sin less. The same glory, greatness, power, grace of the Father that resurrected Jesus from death and restored Him to glory of God, works in us who believe. We are to appropriate that power every day, every moment to resist temptation, to overcome it, to be victorious. We are to surrender every member of our bodies, every organ, every part of our lives to God through Jesus as a living sacrifice. Sacrificing the option to sin is no sacrifice at all but the word calls it “sacrifice”. Sinning or continuing in righteousness is no longer an option. IN that sense, our freedom is restricted and we are slaves to righteousness, slaves to the Lord but in losing such freedom, we gain eternity and eternal rewards. Total obedience is expected of a slave. In all aspects of our lives, we are to maximize the manifestation of the glory and greatness of our Father in heaven, His Son Jesus, Our Saviour, the Holy Spirit, our Empowerer. The way to maximize our lives is to adopt maxims that are evolved or derived from the word of God. The maxims of man itself makes a person wise and more effective, how much more the maxims derived from the wisdom, revelation and word of God. Internalising and abiding by the maxims or principles based on the word are, therefore, a source of great power to live the new life in Christ. Another way to live a life of righteousness is indicated in the use of the word “habitually” in the uni-verse. We are to evolve, develop, maintain habits of righteousness like starting each day with a time of communion with the Master, our Lord and God. We are to spend time at His feet, spend a fixed amount of time habitually and daily in studying diligently the word to derive maxims of personal conduct and to then, go ahead and act in accordance with these biblical principles. We are to apply these principles in our relationships, our work, our interactions habitually, never departing from it.