Last couple of days have given us a taste of summer to come; nice and warm.

Trees are budding out, spring flowers are blooming, a good sign that the world is still going on.

Galatians 2:20  I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

In some cultures if a man saves another man’s life, he is responsible for him from then on.  I assume it is because without his ‘interference’ in the other man’s life the man wouldn’t be alive.

Interesting – you would think that it would be the saved person serving the man who saved him, in gratitude and thankfulness.

As a Christian we have that promise of Christ that He will be with us, always.  That we can cast our burdens on Him, that the Holy Spirit will guide and direct us.

In deed He saved us and He is taking responsibility for us.

Before that conversion we had no such promise.  The only promise we had was that refusal to accept Jesus as the Son of God, confessing our sins to Him where He could save us – meant we would spend eternity in hell.

and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

But out of gratitude as well as obedience we have an accountability to Jesus; we find that serving God becomes the most important thing we can do.

Admittedly we may take a few years to put our spiritual life into perspective – we become consumed with our responsibilities to our families and to our employers, thus neglecting God.  Sometimes it goes to the point that we forget our responsibility to Him completely and set Him aside as we go about our daily living.

But that is not the way God wants us to think – yes, He understands our need to be responsible and take care of our families, but all too often we set aside our need to take care of our responsibilities to God for more than just family – and even that is not acceptable to God.

Not only don’t we get interrupted by our responsibility to God focusing on family – we have hobbies and games and other things that start replacing God in our hearts.

and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

We need to get back to the Joy of our salvation, where everything else becomes background to our life in Him.

We can still fulfill our responsibilities to others, we did it when we began our journey with Him, we just need to remember that we owe Him for our salvation and we must be committed to Him.

He will help us make time and room for our family but it is up to us to ask Him, as we serve Him.

Later, Art :-)