May 7, 2015

DJ

2 Timothy 3:6 For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,

How many times have you been tempted into doing something against a weaker person? How many times have you given in and done something against them?

None of us like the idea of bullying but if we are honest we have been a part of something that can be looked at as being bullying in other people’s eyes!

It is the sin and temptation we give in to which ruins our lives and the lives of others; ditch it and release it!

God wants us to be better people and has made it possible for us to be free from such things – ask Him for strength to combat them!

May 6, 2015

DJ

Matthew 23:13 But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.

If we are going to tell someone it is safe to go out on a branch or to walk across a bridge, then we should be willing to demonstrate it is safe.

If we tell people about God and how great He is, then we should be willing to demonstrate to them we know God and we know His greatness!

Telling people one thing and doing another is one sure way of losing their trust! We need to back up our words with actions.

And this applies to everything we say about God. We need to do things just as we talk about them so others can know the truth and see it in action!

May 5, 2015

DJ

Isaiah 50:7 For the Lord God will help Me; Therefore I will not be disgraced; Therefore I have set My face like a flint, And I know that I will not be ashamed.

Are you a person who hides their feelings behind a straight face? Are you a person who does not like to allow others to see your true feelings?

I’m pretty sure others can tell exactly what is going on in my life through my eyes and my face!

That is not the intent here. The intent here is not to be ashamed of God, and behind ashamed is something that is very easily shown to others!

Do not be ashamed of allowing others to see how much you love God and how much you depend on Him!

May 4, 2015

DJ

2 Timothy 1:12 For this reason I also suffer these things; nevertheless I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that Day.

Christ may have paid a terrible price in our eyes but to Him it was exactly what was required. I martyr may pay a terrible price in our eyes, but to theirs it was what had to be done.

If we really do love Christ half as much as he loves us then we should be willing to do what is needed to get others to know Him too.

When we stop short of the goal we are saying we cannot do it. When we stop before the end we say we are not strong enough.

Christ is offering us His strength and His determination to allow us to reach the goal.