Core

In a person, they say the core of us is the most important, our core strength.

When you look at fruit, where does it hide it's seeds? In the core of the fruit, covered by the exterior flesh. The core makes up that fruit, it can bring forth life from the core, the exterior is just a way to make it look pretty or even ugly depending on the fruit.

We are much like that fruit, our flesh may not be what we describe as pretty, it may be something that people do not desire, but our core is where the strength is, the flesh just covers our core. We tend to look at the flesh as a means to how the person is, but Jesus Christ looks at the core, He looks at our hearts.

If we have a rotten core, no one can tell, but Jesus Christ. When we want to strength our core physically we have to do exercises, we have to work out, we have to do something, it just doesn't happen on it own. Just the same with being a Christian, a Christ follower, we must work out our spiritual muscles, we must put Jesus Christ first and for most in our lives. If our core does not put Him first in everything, everything else falls apart around us. We can have a great exterior, but it will not cover when our core is not doing what Jesus Christ said to do.

His First command is to: Luke 10:27 "He answered, "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind'; and, 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'""

If we are not doing that for our core, we are not putting Jesus Christ first. When we put Him first in all we do, 2 Corinthians 10:5 "We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. " We make sure that our ways are what He wants us to do. We fear the Lord, it says in Proverbs 1:7 "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction."

I want my life to be a living example of being a Christ follower, I want to fear the Lord, I want my core to be strengthened in Jesus Christ, not in myself. When Jesus brings us to the end of ourselves and shows us that we can't do it on our own, it is our choice to chose to stop fighting and surrender our strength to Him, His way and His will. No longer can it be about me, but Jesus Christ who lives in me at my core. He must be our core.

Have a blessed day.