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Even kings take notice

31 May

Even kings take notice

Genesis 26:3-5    Dwell in this land, and I will be with you and bless you; for to you and your descendants I give all these lands, and I will perform the oath which I swore to Abraham your father. 4 And I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of heaven; I will give to your descendants all these lands; and in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed; 5 because Abraham obeyed My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”

Someone close to me pointed me to Genesis last night, primarily the story of Isaac, the son of Abraham. Isaac had followed in his fathers footsteps in so many ways. He had fled the land when there was famine; he had feared for his life like Abraham had with Sarah and lied about it; but just like Abraham he had sought God in all of it. He spent his life listening to God and working all his life for God. He repeatedly dug wells to provide water, and avoided confrontations over the wells; he simply moved to anther until he felt God tell him all was ok, and this one was his. He continually sought God’s direction, and listened and obeyed when God spoke. His life drew the attention of those that noticed the anointing he had, and even pagan kings let him pass freely in fear of Isaac’s God.

God is not slack on his promises. God told Abraham he would bless him, and He reminded Isaac of that covenant with his father. Isaac would seek to remain in the center of God’s will in all that he did. He would fail at times, but his heart was after God and the things of God, and he was a testimony to those he came in contact with. How hard do you try to live your life for God? How much time do you invest in seeking God in prayer and his Word? There is a direct relation to that time and the anointing that you have in your life. How will you hear the voice of God; bigger question is how will you discern it is the voice of God? Only a heart for God? 1 Corinthians 2:9 But as it is written: “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”

Abimelech, the pagan king who told Isaac to flee his land after Isaac lied to him, was so impacted by Isaac that he wanted peace with him. He sought Isaac out in another land to form an oath of peace. Genesis 26:28 But they said, “We have certainly seen that the Lord is with you. So we said, ‘Let there now be an oath between us, between you and us; and let us make a covenant with you, 29 that you will do us no harm, since we have not touched you, and since we have done nothing to you but good and have sent you away in peace. You are now the blessed of the Lord.’ “ You can be just as Isaac; you can become a disciple of Christ, with the anointing of Christ for all to see in this world far from God. He can use you to attest to the power He has, and use you to reach others with your life. All you must do is to seek God with all your heart, mind, body, and soul; listen and obey Him when he speaks to you, and others will take notice of your love of your Lord just as the pagan king saw in Isaac.

 
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Posted by on May 31, 2013 in Daily Devotions

 

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Wolves among us

30 May

Wolves among us

2 Timothy 4:1-5    I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom: 2 Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; 4 and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. 5 But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

I believe we are living in these days that Paul speaks of; the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine. Those days have truly been around since the beginning of time, for we are a world born into sin and all the traps of it. We seek to find all the pleasures in life that come with religions that promise worldly pleasures and, eternal life. That we are all good people and deserve all the good in life. We must understand that we are sinners, and that we are eternally lost without the only One whom can save us, Jesus Christ. You are not a sinner because you sin, you sin because you are a sinner. Christ provides you the means to justify you before a Holy God for that sin debt that we all must answer for; He has justified, or paid your debt by His death.

Many of today’s false prophets are simply wolves in sheep’s clothing. Matthew 7:15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.” They come with promises of earthy blessings; of smoke and mirrors that tickle your fancy and get you to think you DESERVE all of it. They never preach of the truth of sin and hell, for that scares people and effects their pocketbooks. Anybody will listen to a sermon that makes them feel good, but who wants to hear a sermon that makes you squirm in your seat in the realization of your sin? There is power in that conviction, and in that power resides the Holy Spirit that is drawing you to eternal victory; not a temporal false pleasure for your short time here.

Something in me stirred this week with a new church I saw, Animation Church. I simply cannot get past the trouble I have with the name alone. Animation is make believe characters, a fantasy land of make believe where anything goes, including death and life. A world where there is no truth, but only what satisfies the current need. How boldly can they proclaim their heresy on the title of their building? “We will make it all up as we go, and make it all work out in the end.” These are the days that Paul speaks of. There is the need for you to draw near to God and the things of God every day in His Word and prayer. This will provide you the discernment that you need to not be devoured by one of these wolves that are among us today.

 
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Posted by on May 30, 2013 in Daily Devotions

 

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Humbleness

29 May

Humbleness

James 4:6 But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: “God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble.”

I must intentionally make this short, for if I write on pride it will be at length, for it is still a great struggle of mine. I work alone; I have many reasons, but the primary is a horrible experience with one of my last employees. I experienced a ton of emotions that were all bad, and it took an act of God in me to experience forgiveness for them. It was a great turning point in my life, and an example of how God can use even the worst situations in life for good. I forgave him, but still carry that weight today and the fear of people that offer to help. With the problems of my shoulder, and the physical demands of my work, it puts great strains on me. Can you see pride still rooted in that?

Pride is the root of all sin. It can be traced back down to the root of all you fail in. It can be traced all the way back to the Garden of Eden; all the way back to Satan’s fall from heaven in the  desire to be like God. There is evidence of it in your life too; even the denial of a struggle with it is a prideful statement. James is putting it as plainly as he can in the scripture above; God wants nothing to do with the prideful person; God loves and provides for the humble. It is only through that humble heart that you come to Salvation through repentance. At the beginning of Christ’s ministry, he spoke of this same repentance as John the Baptist. Matthew 4:17 From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” Repentance will never come to a heart that is filled with pride. In your pride you will always fell that you CAN accomplish it on your own by works of some sort.

In a heart that comes to the realization of it’s need for Christ; there is a humility found there. The realization of a life steep in sin and the need for a Savior will bring the forgiveness in it; or the condemnation in the pride of it. If you feel that you can ever earn it, you will die in it. You must understand the concept of grace, God giving you something that you cannot earn, and do not deserve. You sin because you are a sinner, you are not a sinner because you sin. Your pride wants you to believe the secondary; Satan lives there. Pride will always be a struggle, but pride can be kept at bay by the grace of God. Look at the promises found in the next verses. James 4:7 Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. 8a Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. A humble heart is a heart close to God.

 
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Posted by on May 29, 2013 in Daily Devotions

 

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You don’t have to understand

28 May

You don’t have to understand

Isaiah 55:1-3    “Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. 2 Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food. 3 Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David. (ESV)

Isaiah 55 is a great place to go for an encouraging word from God. It is a great place to go to see the invitation that God gives to all to join Him. It shows the promises he is making to all that will join him. He has prepared King David to lead his people, and God has made the promise to deliver a Messiah through the lineage of David to the people of Israel; known as the Davidic Covenant. God has promised to deliver the eternal King, and here in Isaiah is his invitation to all. In the context of this it is spoken to the Jews, but God’s invitation is to all who will hear and respond. Romans 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.

Isaiah 55 is a great place to go for an encouraging word when you just don’t understand what is going on in your life. You begin to question the events, the unanswered prayers, the tribulations, all that you experience and begin to question God. Isaiah 55:8-9 are a bedrock of my faith; 8 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord. 9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.” In my DNA I am one of those guys that “thinks things to death”. As a business owner I am a planner; as a child of God I seek to understand; as a failure my pride creeps in when I can’t. There is no part of me that can grip a minuscule amount of the Creator of the universe’s Sovereignty. But there is also a part of me that can rest in that when I seek to remain humble, and keep that sin of pride at bay, by seeking to remain close to God. In that abiding comes a minuscule amount of that understanding that I will not understand; peace is found there.

God is asking you to join him. God is asking you to rest in his hands that hold everything in their grasp. God is asking you to quit worrying about everything and rest in that knowledge that he has control of it all. There is a strength and peace that resides in the heart of a disciple that this world cannot steal away. Even in my struggles with anxiety, I press in to God for the strength to fight the enemy. I know that anxiety is rooted in fear, and fear is not from God. 2 Timothy 1:7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. There is a quiet strength found in knowing that you will never understand how God works; but there is strength and peace that if He can breath a star into existence, the details of my life define simplicity.

 
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Posted by on May 28, 2013 in Daily Devotions

 

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Soldier disciples

27 May

Soldier disciples

John 15:8-17    By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples. 9 “As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. 10 If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. 11 These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. 12 This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. 14 You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. 15 No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you. 17 These things I command you, that you love one another. 18 “If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you.

It’s Memorial Day, the day when we solemnly remember those who have paid the ultimate price, sacrificing their lives for ours. Those who have died fighting for our freedom, paying the ultimate price for those who may not even appreciate the price that they have paid. We take time to remember those who were the good soldiers; fighting for a cause they believed in to the point of death. Can you see the similarity in what Christ has done for you? Can you see that He paid the ultimate price to pay for your freedom from the eternal pain of sin? The One who created you, died to save you, to give his life for yours; I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. (John 10:10b).

The apostle Paul in his final letter to Timothy, uses the analogy of a soldier; Timothy must understand that the road as a disciple of Christ will be as a soldier for Christ. 2 Timothy 2:3 You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 4 No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier. I am reading an incredibly powerful book, The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, that goes into detail the call of discipleship that is placed by Christ on those he calls. Of the conscious act of making that commitment to follow His call. To place that effort in the act of obedience to what He lays on our heart. In this act of free will, is the heart of a disciple; a heart that desires to draw nearer to Christ in these acts of immediate obedience to what He calls us to do. This intimacy is found, cultivated, and continually sought in the life of a soldier, a disciple of Christ’s.

Do you claim the promises of Christ, but yet fail to live for Him? Do you in your mind see yourself in heaven since you signed a paper, or prayed a prayer? Do you have any evidences in your heart that something changed; is there evidences in your external of the internal change? Will you obey or delay that call He placed on you? Will you become a disciple of His even if it means to the point of death; dying to yourself and the false needs wrapped up in the ideal of sin from your enemy? Your enemy lurks behind your front lines placing doubt and false desire. A good soldier for Christ only seeks to please the One who enlisted him, who called him out to be a soldier for the heavenly army. Place your life’s focus, trust, and obedience in the commander of the heavenly army that will have assured victory over Satan and sin in the end; the beginning of eternal paradise for His soldiers.

 
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Posted by on May 27, 2013 in Daily Devotions

 

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Dedicated works

26 May

Dedicated works

Philippians 2:12-18   Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, 13 for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure. 14 Do all things without grumbling or questioning, 15 that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, 16 holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain. 17 Even if I am to be poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrificial offering of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all. 18 Likewise you also should be glad and rejoice with me.

I am tired. If you keep up with this ministry, you get a glimpse of my life, my struggles, and my desire to keep my eyes and heart for Christ in all the trials of life. I am far from perfect, I fail continually, and thankfully the Holy Spirit living inside me convicts me of my sin. The past couple of weeks have been almost comical to the point of things going wrong; such is life sometimes in the seasons of life. It is ok, it is all a part of God’s plan for my life, and I continually seek Him daily for comfort and strength in it. I, from the bottom of my heart, have a heart for God. I want to be a better person, a better disciple for Christ, 15 that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation. I am swimming upstream in the midst of a river of sin, and my own sins drag me down. It is only with the strength of Christ that I am able to continue on, the fear of drowning in that river the world is producing right now. I am trying to “work out your own salvation with fear and trembling”. The Greek verb for this is Katergazesthe; “The word signifies working thoroughly at a thing, and taking true pains. Observe, We must be diligent in the use of all the means which conduce to our salvation. We must not only work at our salvation, by doing something now and then about it; but we must work out our salvation, by doing all that is to be done, and persevering therein to the end.” (Matthew Henry).

Paul had just pointed to the deity of Christ in the verses prior; the Incarnation and the Crucifixion. He has provided the means of your salvation through that Grace alone. You can never do any work to attain it, but you can dedicate your life to it. You can come to that realization of that Grace; and that is a heart changed for your time here, and into eternity. A heart that grasps Grace and the prize found in it, is a heart that seeks to serve the One who gave it. That heart is moved in reverent fear from the One who holds life and death of your eternal soul in His hands. Reverent fear produces Godly results; Matthew 10:28 And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. Working out your Salvation may be a term steep in theology, but in it is also a simplicity: Live your life honoring the One who gave you life. Living your life in the pursuit of God and the things of God, will produce the good works of God, through you. This heart for God shows the evidences of God to the world drowning in that river of sin. In Him you have that life-vest; in Him you can show others how to not drown as you work out your salvation in that river.

 
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Posted by on May 26, 2013 in Daily Devotions

 

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It all works out

25 May

It all works out

Jeremiah 29:11-13    For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. 12 Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. 13 And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.

The prophet Jeremiah was speaking to Judah, telling them to hang in there and not forsake God in their captivity. God was promising to deliver them from their captivity at the end of seventy years. There was hope that lied in Jeremiah’s prophecy for those that kept the eyes and hearts on God. God’s sovereignty is something we simply cannot grasp in our limited understanding; He is all knowing, past, present, and future. He holds everything in control, and he is not limited by time. We come to question the events in our lives, but this is doubt planted by Satan, and a small grasp of sovereignty will secure that hope in our hearts. Matthew Henry put it well, “We are sometimes ready to fear that God’s designs concerning us are all against us; but he knows the contrary concerning his own people, that they are thoughts of good and not of evil; even that which seems evil is designed for good. His thoughts are all working towards the expected end, which he will give in due time.”

Everything in your life, good or bad, is either allowed, or designed by God. All of it can either draw you closer to Him, or take your eyes off of him. When you know that you under His sovereignty, you will rest in it. You will seek Him to understand, or better yet to just draw closer to Him in it. The understanding may not come on your timetable, but the trial produces intimacy only found during them. James 1:2 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. 4 But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. 5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. 6 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. When you are getting knocked down, and those 1 2 3 blows seem to come, go to your knees, in prayer. Pour your heart out to God for strength found only in Him.

I am speaking to myself, for I have had a couple weeks full of punches. I have had “Murphy’s Law” two weeks at work, almost to the point of being comical to keep from crying. I have seen my oldest son get sick, when I thought he was ok and passed it off. I have had a rough couple of weeks while my wife has been on a mission trip abroad in many ways. She is out spreading the Good News of the hope that lies within her, and Satan has tried to take our eyes at home off the One she is speaking about. Spiritual warfare is fought on a heavenly plain; one that we cannot see, but we can feel. Ephesians 6:12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. In the great trial of Job, he did not understand that God meant if for good, but Job ultimately came to that understanding in God’s timing when he did not let his faith fail.

 
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Posted by on May 25, 2013 in Daily Devotions

 

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A Choice: God’s Word or TV

23 May

A Choice: God’s Word or TV

1 John 4:4-6     You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. 5 They are of the world. Therefore they speak as of the world, and the world hears them. 6 We are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

John is speaking directly to the false teachers of the day. Those that had divided the Word, and transformed it unto their liking. They had mangled it into a blend of philosophies and religions, and twisted it into religions that suited lifestyles; religions that suited some, elevated others, but for the most part took Christ out of the picture. If He remained there, he had been transformed into differing ideals; not remaining the Incarnated Son of God that had come to save the world from sin. They had provided their concoctions that would, as the apostle Paul spoke of their ministries, teaching what people wanted to hear. 2 Timothy 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; 4 and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.

You are given the blessing of the Holy Spirit living inside of you, when you answer that call upon your life of the grace of God found in Salvation. The Spirit is your teacher; it is He who grants you the understanding of spiritual things. It is He inside you that makes you see things through your heart. John 14:26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you. It is He that makes you question, what you hear. That is the discernment of the Holy Spirit living inside you, and the greater discernment is cultivated by a heart that is in daily pursuit in God’s Word. There are many wolves in sheep’s clothing today preaching a blend of their own around the gospel of God. The prosperity preaching by so many elevated in today’s media has become the accepted normal. This blend of Christ and all the financial and material blessings he wants you to have, fit very well into the American society with the desire of excess.

The blessings that God intends for you are eternal; they are not money, houses, cars, vacations, power, and all the riches that are measured by the standards of this world. If you believe that you have been deceived by a false prophet. You may have come to find Christ, but you need to concentrate on following your Savior in the Word, and not the false preacher on TV. Pray for the Holy Spirit living inside you to open your eyes to God through His Word. You will find eternal riches in the peace that comes in the understanding of the Word. John 14:27 Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. If you continue to feed yourself by sitting under the false teachers, you will only be led farther away in the opposite direction.

 
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Posted by on May 23, 2013 in Daily Devotions

 

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Hope Grows

22 May

Hope Grows

2 Corinthians 5:7 For we walk by faith, not by sight.

Paul writes in the latter stages of Chapter 4 of both the troubles we will face, and that the size of them, in the bigger picture of eternity. He speaks of the power of Christ living in us; the strength that comes from that hope and promise of eternal life in Christ. How no matter what this world throws at us, we will have victory in Him. 4:8 We are hard pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed. We are not promised a life of ease, but we are promised eternal life in heaven with the One whom created life. The strength found in that hope, is the strength to face anything the day may bring.

At your core you have a crutch you go to when you need help. It may cause you to be an introvert, handling your problems alone on the false power of your pride. It may sadly be a substance to numb the pain, or a habit to hide from it. It may be any means of escape, but there is only One who can carry the load and provide the hope that will get you through it; Jesus Christ. There are many right now after the horrific tornado in Oklahoma that are seeking comfort and hope. I pray that in all of this their faith grows in Christ. Even in, and through all of this pain, God can be glorified and draw others to himself. 17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, 18 while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

It is in the normality that your heart is prepared for the trial. It is in the daily time with God that you are strengthened for the attack that will come. You prepare for war, by preparing for battle. You spend daily time with God developing an understanding of God by the revelation He reveals. He opens your eyes to a faith that only the heart understands. 5:7 For we walk by faith, not by sight. The more time you spend in the pursuit of Him, the more He reveals himself to you, and the stronger your faith becomes. The stronger your faith becomes, the greater your hope becomes, and with that hope comes understanding of the trials you will face. They ALL are only temporary, and they all can point you, and draw you closer to the One you will spend eternity with.

 
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Posted by on May 22, 2013 in Daily Devotions

 

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Simplicity

21 May

Simplicity

1 Corinthians 1:17-18     For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect. 18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

Paul had set up the church at Corinth on his first missionary journey there. He had left the church under the charge of Aquila and Priscilla, and the young church had struggled in many ways in the midst of pagan society that surrounded it. There were huge sexual immorality issues, and the church had become divided among it’s members on who they claimed to be following. Paul was responding to two letters sent to him; much of this points to the instructions of how to conduct themselves as Christians, and as a church; to follow Christ and not an individual.  Paul had his hands full in how far this church had slipped away from God. The city of Corinth was a city full of great sin, and that sin had worked its way into the church.

In history it is known that the Jews sought a sign for their coming Messiah, and that the Greeks sought after wisdom to reach their God. Both failed in their attempts. Even those Jews that appeared to be the most religious, were the ones who murdered their King. There are those today that seek their relationship on a level of intellect, a level of  “book smart”, yet not the level of “heart smart”. A knowledge of Christ may be found in the pursuit of him, but a relationship with Him is found the understanding of grace. You can never cultivate your salvation by filling your head with the wisdom of the world. The wisdom of the world elevates the achievements of oneself, righteousness found in the knowledge gained to some degree. God has chosen the simplicity of the Gospel to dispel oneself supposed achievements by worldly standards. 25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

Do you get how simple the Good News of God’s grace in Jesus Christ is? Do you feel the need to complicate it by adding your good works to it? Do you believe that their must be some higher goal to achieve, some higher price to pay? That is the way the world teaches; it simply cannot be this easy, can it? John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. God loves you; he sent his son to die for you to pay for your sins; it only takes a humble, repentant heart that realizes and accepts that free gift. You can never earn your way, in any way. Only a humble, repentant heart finds the true way. John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. Quit trying to complicate it; rest eternally in the simplicity of it.

 
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Posted by on May 21, 2013 in Daily Devotions

 

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