Definition and determination...
resolved: firm in purpose or intent; determined.
determined: having made a firm decision and being resolved not to change it.
Okay, so there are a couple of definitions.
"For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified." (1 Corinthians 2:2 ESV)
Just to be sure we know what we are talking about here, "decided" means to have determined or resolved.
A believer's mission is the cross. We may look at cultural issues and understand they are symptoms of sin, but our answer for those symptoms aren't arguing about others symptoms. If one kind of symptom reveals a crooked heart, we don't offer another crooked-hearted thing to replace it. We point to the cross.
One of our problems --especially of late-- is that we throw out all sorts of symptoms to battle symptoms.
Or, look at it like this, we have preferences. For example, it's come to see someone like one team and their friend likes another team. They argue, even to the point of anger, incessantly about these teams, but they whisper about the cross. They slip into church and glide out...no passion, no commitment. Which thing really has such a person's heart?
The cure for all of this is to get cross-eyed. Resolve --determine-- to know nothing but Jesus and His finished work. Make that your business, your hobby, your pleasure and your purpose. Only Jesus rescues from sin. Only Jesus opens the way to fellowship with God. Only Jesus breaks bonds and delivers from darkness. Only Jesus saves us from hell and grants us the hope of the Father in heaven. Only Jesus quickens us from spiritual deadness.
Resolve ... determine ... decide ... purpose in your heart and with your life to know nothing but Christ and Him crucified, and DO NOT put anything in your heart ahead of that. Put nothing in your conversation ahead of that. Put nothing on your schedule ahead of that. Put nothing in your energies ahead of that.
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