Micah J. Sturm

The Church has convinced itself that what is embraced by our physical lives has absolutely no impact on our spiritual standing with God.

Thus, Christians can lie, cheat, steal, gossip, slander, murder, covet, and be just as promiscuous and perverse as anyone else without any real consequence to eternity.

However, what we allow to enter our minds, exits our mouths, become habits, and will either enhance or poison our relationship with Christ.

“Yes, they knew God, but they wouldn’t worship him as God or even give him thanks. And they began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like. As a result, their minds became dark and confused…So God abandoned them to do whatever shameful things their hearts desired. As a result, they did vile and degrading things with each other’s bodies…Since they thought it foolish to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their foolish thinking and let them do things that should never be done. Their lives became full of every kind of wickedness, sin, greed, hate, envy, murder, quarreling, deception, malicious behavior, and gossip. They are backstabbers, haters of God, insolent, proud, and boastful. They invent new ways of sinning, and they disobey their parents. They refuse to understand, break their promises, are heartless, and have no mercy. They know God’s justice requires that those who do these things deserve to die, yet they do them anyway. Worse yet, they encourage others to do them, too.”

Romans 1:21, 24, 28-32 NLT

How we live really does matter!

Eternal security says, “Nothing we do or leave undone can change our claim to heaven!”

Blessed assurance says, “The Holy Spirit leads, guides, guards, and assures us that we are right with God!”