I’m convinced there is a great amount of people who may not
know exactly what a conviction is. I’m also led to believe people may not know
exactly who does the convicting.
Being a Christian is not like other religions. Other
religions you have to go to a temple certain days out of the week, you have to
chant chants, you have to lay on a mat and pray 5 times a day, and you have to
confess your sins to a man. We don’t have to do any of those things being a
Christian. When God sent Jesus into the world to die for our sins, he broke the
veil; therefore we have direct access to our heavenly father. We don’t have to
go to someone in order for our God to hear us. It’s called relationship. Being
a Christian means having a personal relationship with Christ. Now just like all
relationships there are boundaries, like no cheating, no this, no that right?
Well he have “boundaries” also, they are called the 10 commandments (Exodus 20:1-17).
Those are the “rules” so to speak in this relationship. The problem that people
have figuring out is the in-between. We know we can’t do this and we can’t do
that, but what about all this middle ground?
I’m going to give a
lot of examples, because that is the way easiest for me to try to help people
understand. The middle ground is subjective, subjective meaning it’s
different based on the person. Just like in a relationship with a human being,
you may be fine with your boyfriend or girlfriend going here or there with so
and so, another couple might have a different agreement, that topic is
subjective. In the bible we see that getting drunk is a sin. Drinking alcohol
is not the sin, even Jesus and the disciple’s drunk wine, getting drunk is the
sin. So for me I don’t drink period, that doesn’t make me better or worse than
anyone, that is MY personal conviction, therefore if I were to drink I would be
committing a sin. -Well how are you committing a sin if that’s not one of the
10 commandments?- Well let’s define conviction. Conviction is a convinced conscience,
basically feeling bad for doing or not doing something. We will automatically
feel convicted for going against the 10 commandments because we were instructed
to be obedient to our God, and if he tells us not to do it then we shouldn’t.(
but again we are focusing on the middle ground) A convinced conscience is
basically like your belief system. If our belief system stems from the Bible,
and God then our beliefs should be holy and pure right? Doesn’t mean we will
all have the same exact beliefs. (Stay with me, beliefs not meaning faith base,
meaning the middle ground). I share and will always share MY beliefs on secular
music. I will feel convicted if I sat and listened to the music I used to
listen to. That is MY personal conviction based on MY relationship with Jesus
Christ. Being that my beliefs stem from the bible, I don’t feel comfortable
singing about having premarital sex, getting drunk etc. Those songs (some not
all) are about sins, the very sins I told God I would not commit because of my
obedience to him. My God hates those things, so why would I sing, dance and
listen to those types of songs? If I were to even be in the car with someone
listening to a song about killing or sex I would feel very uncomfortable, and
if I chose to listen to that on my own, The Holy Spirit would be like -um excuse
me Destaynee, what are you doing? You know better than that- I would feel convicted as if I went against
one of the 10 commandments. That’s just the relationship I have with Christ.
Even at work, if someone is rude to me, I still HAVE to be
nice. (Trust me it is NOT always easy) , but I can’t purposely be rude to
someone just because they were rude to me, I will feel convicted. I’m so about
treating people with love and kindness and mercy that I couldn’t PURPOSELY go against
my belief, and if I did, trust me The Holy Spirit will convict me.
Now I didn’t create this blog post to share my many
convictions, I believe my convictions are all throughout my blog, but I want
you all to get your own convictions. I see every day people tweeting about
stuff that’s not a biblical sin, but a personal conviction and they pass it off
as if it was a part of the 10 commandments. It frustrates me to see it because
there are a lot of ‘young” people in Christ and even “old” people in Christ
that may see these tweets or statuses and think they are wrong because they don’t
have that same conviction. That is NOT the case at all! The people that are
passing their personal convictions off as “word” or “scripture” need to have a #SpiritCheck
and see what spirit is leading them. That is not right. As strongly as I feel
about secular music, and no matter how bad I wish people could see how horrible
SOME of it is, I would never push my convictions on someone else and make them
feel like they have sinned when that isn’t their personal conviction.
How do you find out what your personal convictions are?
Great question, I’m not totally sure to be honest. They have
come to me over the years. The more serious I got about my walk with Christ,
the more he shaped me and showed me certain things. So basically what you need
to do is spend time with Christ talk to him about it, you can surely ask him to
show you what your personal convictions are, he’ll do it trust me. But remember
convictions stem from your belief. Some of you may not understand or care to
know how powerful music is, that’s why you don’t care if your singing sinful songs,
I believe strongly in music and how it is used for praise and worship, I can’t
sing songs glorifying the things my God hates and be cool with it. That’s how I
know it is a personal conviction.
So let’s challenge ourselves. Let’s figure out our own
personal convictions within our own personal relationship with Christ, and let’s
also NOT push them on others. Let’s let people live and have their OWN
relationship with Christ, let’s encourage others to stick with their personal
convictions.
Let’s let our brothers and sisters live in the freedom of
Christ and stop trying to find a way to keep them bond, we are free from the
law and free in Jesus Christ our savior.
Being a Christian is amazing, being able to have a God that
we can go to directly is amazing, having a friend when we are friendless is
sooo ridiculously amazing. Having a savior And a Lord? Incredible, let’s let
The Holy Spirit, do the convicting, he’s the only one that can do it, no matter
how many rants and rages you go on, you CAN’T do the job of The Holy Spirit,
stop wasting your time J
If you love someone tell them
I love you
Destaynee
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