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ON A JOURNEY

Text :1 Pet 2:11.

 *Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;* 

 *Our calling as Christians is a calling unto pilgrimage. We are on a journey. You must daily live in the consciousness of this.* 

Pilgrims are people who are willing to constantly engage in migration from one place to another. 

A Christian pilgrim is one who is on a journey of migrating from the old man to the new man until he comes to the  measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. 2 Cor. 5:17. Eph. 4: 13,22

We must constantly migrate from one dimension of spiritual perspective as revealed by the Spirit to another and yet to another, with the aim of becoming like Christ. 

 *When you are cognizant of the fact that you are on transit here on earth, it will reflect in your attitude towards all things.* 

This world's system is designed to make people focus on things on earth only. But as a person who knows that he is on pilgrimage, you must strive to live against the tides of this world. 

 *If after you have given your life to Christ, you refused to journey towards the salvation of your soul,  you are already sliding back.* 

To slide back is to stop walking towards the Salvation of the soul. In this journey, there's no static ground it's either you are progressing in your walk of faith towards becoming like Christ, or you are sliding back to perdition. 

But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.Heb 10:39.

1 Peter 1:9 says Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. That is, the end of your faith is the Salvation of your soul. 

Being born again is not an end in itself, it's a means to an end. The end is to get your soul to attain to the same status your spirit attained at new birth. This is your duty as a Christian. 

Bible Reading : Hebrew 6:1-6.

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