Putting Your Foot Down!
“All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.”~ 1 Cor. 6:12
One definition of the little quip from the 16th century, “Put your foot down,” is: to refuse very firmly to do or accept something. Another puts it this way: to use your authority to stop something from happening.
In today's terms it is like our saying, “Ok! that’s it! I’ve had enough! It all stops here and now!” That is, said of anything that keeps me from enjoying my Christian life, hinders my growth, takes my mind off Him, or dulls the scriptures, must stop immediately! This is all-inclusive, of people or things.
Jesus told His disciples, “Behold, I give unto you power…over all the power of the enemy….” If this be true of them, is it any less true of us? Scripture teaches that neither the world, the flesh, or the devil are to have power over the Believer. To lose our God-given authority over these three culprits, we must freely relinquish it to them.
God never intended His elect to cower in a corner, trembling! If so, such scriptures as the following mean nothing: “Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us… Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ…And they overcame him [Satan]by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.”
by an Old Disciple
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