Straight Up.

When I sit, I've always sort of leaned toward my left, sitting a bit uneven in my chair. This weekend, I found out why. I was one of the many whose legs were uneven and saw the healing power of the Lord for them to grow out.

When my friend prayed for me one of the things he prayed was that because of this I would have better posture. It was later that I realized the effect the unevenness had on me. Since then I've been able to sit up straighter, and when I stand I don't stick my hip out anymore to relieve the tension.

But every once and a while I'll find myself favoring that one side. Not that I really need to anymore, it's more out of habit. I'll have to make a conscious effort to remember to sit up straight.

I can't help but relate this to our walk with the Lord. (cuando? huh!) Sometimes the Lord touches our heart and heals or delivers us from something. But sometimes we find ourselves bending toward the very thing that we had been delivered from. Not that it has the same hold on us as it did before, but it's just easy to fall back into habit.

This verse comes to mind. "Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence—continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose." (Philippians 2:12-13)

It's not that we have to re-earn our salvation all the time. That's a done deal, we can be convinced without a shadow of a doubt that we will go to heaven "if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved." (Romans 10:9-10)

But the verse in Philippians says we are to work out our salvation. We are already saved, we just need to exercise what it means to be saved into every area of our hearts and lives.

Let's leave our bended ways behind and stand straight up in all that God has called us into.