Handed A New Code Key

I want you to imagine a code key that you slide in the door of your life every day. You slide the code key into slot. The light turns green. The lock opens in the door and you walk through the door just like every other day but this particular day a man walks up to you and gives you a new code key. You are about to give him your old code key when he puts up his hand and says, "You have a choice."

You look at both the keys in your hand and at first there are no obvious signs that the keys are any different. Of course the one you have been using looks used. It has been slightly abused. You have used it from everything to opening junk mail, to when you locked yourself out of your house, to an ice scraper for your car windshield.

You take the clean new code key and go to the door and slide it into the spot. The light turns green and the door unlocks and pops open. You walk through the door. The space is the same but there is a new light and perspective on everything in that space. It’s like you are in a parallel world. You can’t put your finger on it so you ask others who share this space with you, "What is different?"
They look at you strangely and say, "Nothing is different but you seem to be."

Do you want a new code key for your life?

We are continually being presented with ourselves…. The same old key card but the new code key is not based on us, which often deals with our own understandings and reasons about life. It is a code key that helps up look beyond the constant reflection of us to something higher and greater. It transforms us and gives us assurance instead of things like doubt and fear that box us in. This new code key is empowered by a source greater then our imagination. It is empowered by God’s Holy Spirit.

The same Holy Spirit that brings conviction to the world for its sins brings peace to those in Christ. It doesn’t lead by human understanding but rather an understanding that is taught through God’s word, situations, circumstances and challenges. It’s not just "living" and "walking" through life but breathing and speaking new life to others by what insight you have been shown and taught by the Creator Himself.

The old key however deals with our flesh and our own human reasoning. It can actually block God from acting in our lives. The old code key takes God out of the equation in our lives and we are only presented with ourselves and when we are presented with only our reasoning and logic then we start to believe and make up foolish ideas about life and God. This is not what God intended for you and me.

Romans 1:21 says: "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. The result was that their minds became dark and confused."

Romans 1:28-32 says "When they refused to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their evil minds and let them do things that should never be done. Their lives became full of every kind of wickedness, sin, greed, hate, envy, murder, fighting, deception, malicious behavior, and gossip. They are backstabbers, haters of God, insolent, proud, and boastful. They are forever inventing new ways of sinning and are disobedient to their parents. They refuse to understand, break their promises, and are heartless and unforgiving. They are fully aware of God’s death penalty for those who do these things, yet they go right ahead and do them anyway. And worse yet, they encourage others to do them, too."

Most people are unaware of death trap they are living in. They are unaware of the eternal punishment awaiting them after this life. They have been tricked and talked into things that if they knew the truth, they would try to steer away from those things.

They are unaware that their life is like a burning house. And since they have no idea that their house is burning down, they will die in that house with no hope. That is, unless, someone runs up to that house and shares with them that they need to get out of their burning house before it’s too late. Of course there will be those individuals, full of pride, who will want to believe that their house is not on fire but for those who can smell the smoke there is good news.

Romans 3:23 "For all have sinned; all fall short of God’s glorious standard. Yet now God in his gracious kindness declares us not guilty. He has done this through Christ Jesus, who has freed us by taking away our sins. For God sent Jesus to take the punishment for ours sins and to satisfy God’s anger against us. We are made right with God when we believe that Jesus shed his blood, sacrificing his life for us. God was being entirely fair and just when he did not punish those who sinned in former times. And he is entirely fair and just in this present time when he declares sinners to be right in his sight because they believe in Jesus. Can we boast, then that we have done anything to be accepted by God? No, because our acquittal is not based on our good deeds. It is based on our faith."

Accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior by confessing that you have sinned against God and need Him to save you. Ask the Holy Spirit to come into your life so you maybe empowered to live the life God intended you to live before you were even a thought in your mother’s mind. Ask this all in Jesus name.

You know what I say is true … Are you going to continue using the same old key card that changes nothing and stay in that burning house or use the new key card that changes everything? The choice is up to you my friend.