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 and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. But that is not the way you learned Christ!— assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
There is a huge assumption here–that we teaching the truth regarding the life of a disciple of Jesus Christ to those whom have been given to us. We often complain about the weak witness of the Church and its tendency to blend in with the culture, but the culpability lies with those who are called to teach and minister.
Am I teaching and living the truth as testimony to all in myPersonal Mission Field?
Today's readings in the Psalms:
Morning: Psalm 146
Mid-day: 119:33-40
Evening: Psalm 71
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