Detox (Dynamics of the Spiritual Life, Part 5)
Search me, O God, and know my heart;
Try me, and know my anxieties;
And see if there is any wicked way in me,
And lead me in the way everlasting. Psalm 139.23, 24
Define, depend, demonstrate
Having defined the life of faith, and now beginning to depend on the Lord by denying the world and determining a proper course for the time of our lives, we will begin to demonstrate the reality of the spiritual life in all our words and deeds.
A Terror to the Devil
A nice way to be remembered, that.
Love like Jesus
1 Peter 1.22, 23
22Since you were purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart, 23having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever…
Share the Law
The Law of God for Daily Meditation
Morning Meditation:
Deuteronomy 6.20-25
20“When your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is the meaning of the testimonies, the statutes, and the judgments which the LORD our God has commanded you?’ 21then you shall say to your son: ‘We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand; 22and the LORD showed signs and wonders before our eyes, great and severe, against Egypt, Pharaoh, and all his household. 23Then He brought us out from there, that He might bring us in, to give us the land of which He swore to our fathers. 24And the LORD commanded us to observe all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that He might preserve us alive, as it isthis day. 25Then it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to observe all these commandments before the LORD our God, as He has commanded us.’”
Ephesians 4:17-24 [2]
Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. They have become callous […]