...The
despised...God has chosen...
(1Co
1:28)
Holy Spirit you are always welcomed
in this heart and in this house. Be with us all, guiding and
revealing as we study God's Word together, Amen.
Our Creator, our God thinks and acts on
a completely different level than His creation. We often pat
ourselves on the back over how intelligent and creative we are, while
God smiles. He smiles on us in the same manner as a human dad would
smile when his child demonstrates the ability to tie his own shoes.
Our Earthly endeavors pale in the presence of His mighty abilities.
Have you noticed that the Lord often
selects those who are, shall we say, lacking in one area or another.
The Bible uses a word, PECULIAR, referencing those God selects for
really HUGE tasks. Many, if not most of the great biblical
patriarchs had some serious baggage when God called them to service.
God loves to take the rough stone, the ugly rock, shape it and
polish it to fit His lofty purposes.
(1Co
6:9-11) Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the
kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor
idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor
thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor
swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. Such were some of you;
but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified
in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.
Just
as God the Father did for select individuals under the Old Covenant,
Christ Jesus does for all who believe in the New. By His death and
through His blood, all of our sins are washed from us once and for
all. Do you Believe?
(Eph
2:1-3) And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you
formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to
the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working
in the sons of disobedience. Among them we too all formerly lived in
the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the
mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
(Tit
3:5-6) He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in
righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of
regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out upon
us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior.
(Isa
55:8-9) "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your
ways My ways," declares the LORD. "For as the
heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your
ways And My thoughts than your thoughts.
Your Bible is brimming with the most
beautiful and incredible events that clearly demonstrate the
limitless love our Creator has for His creation. There is a powerful
reflection of His great desire that not one of you perish, but longs
for you to call His name, to believe, to be saved. Its all in the
Book!
Lord Jesus, thank-you for filling us
with your Holy Spirit. For taking our place and purchasing us as Your
own. Grant us wisdom and discernment in learning and knowing Your
ways as we obey the commandments and love You as You love us,
Hallelujah, Amen
HAVE
YOU READ YOUR BIBLE TODAY?
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