Why are we advised to live soberly as followers of Christ Jesus?
Welcome to my blog. Following our discussions on the grace of God and the things that it should workout in every believer’s life which are listed below :
• Denying ungodliness
• Denying worldly lusts
• Living soberly
• Living righteously
• Living godly in this present world
• Looking for that blessed hope
• Looking for glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.
We’ve covered the first two which are
Denying ungodliness and Denying worldly lusts, where we left three days ago, I promised us that there’s every need that we understand what grace of God is rather than being beguiled by the simplicity of the gospel, grace is not giving just to abound continuously because of sin, but rather grace is given to breed us into perfection by teaching us the way and the very life that God has chosen for his children which are found here on the earth.
Today we’re looking at living soberly
Oxford dictionary put it this way concerning sober:
Not mad or insane; not wild, visionary, or heated with passion; exercising cool, dispassionate reason; self-controlled; self-possessed.
Not proceeding from, or attended with, passion; calm; as, sober judgment; a man in his sober senses.
I’ll love to pick just two statements about sober which are; not heated with passion, and self-possessed.
The scriptures talkes about the pride of this life ( Read Mk 7:22, 1Tim 3:6, 1Jn 2:16) which has prompted many into being heated with all manner of worldly passions; passion for fame and worldly riches, passion for sin and ungodliness which are the works of the flesh, and the scriptures has concluded that if we walk in the flesh that we shall die.
Talking about self control or self-possessed, the scriptures attributed it to the fruits of the spirit which manifests from the lives of they which walks in the spirit.
Be sober, be vigilant says the scriptures knowing that the enemy of our faith like a roaring lion goes around the earth seeking for who to devour!
Being sober is being in a conscious state of mind, readiness and in alert. All these virtues should be in us, reason being that we’re pilgrims here on earth, we shouldn’t be equally yoked with the people of this world who disregards the eternal plans of God.
Being sober is a good instrument to right choices and discernment unto all knowing into the acceptable and the perfect will of God.
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