Today’s devotional from Oswald Chambers’ Daily Thought for Disciples caused me to really analyze what our strong holds as believers really are. He makes a valid statement by pointing out our greatest struggles are not those things we can easily identify and accept as sin, but it is with but the good and noble from a “natural” standpoint that wages the greatest war within…
He didn’t use these scriptures as his focal point, but this scripture is what comes to mind…
I Corinthians 10:23
23 “I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but not everything is constructive. 24 No one should seek their own good, but the good of others”
A point of conviction for me yesterday was the fact we can not call ourselves Christians and see the trouble in the world and not act. The current state of society should compel us to reach out to the lost. Now I get that salvation is not based on works BUT I think that greatest sin of the believer is his own complacency; that we are neither hot nor cold. We are so in love with our selves, impressed with our own spiritual prose so much that we miss that there is someone who is lost, whose life is broken and don’t have a clue on how to get right! And we hold the keys to their liberty but we are too stuck gazing at the wonder we have become that we miss their need…
Do Better & Be Blessed! *SMILE*
Matthew 28:18-20 "Jesus came and told his disciples, “I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth. 19Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations,b baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. 20Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
He didn’t use these scriptures as his focal point, but this scripture is what comes to mind…
I Corinthians 10:23
23 “I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but not everything is constructive. 24 No one should seek their own good, but the good of others”
A point of conviction for me yesterday was the fact we can not call ourselves Christians and see the trouble in the world and not act. The current state of society should compel us to reach out to the lost. Now I get that salvation is not based on works BUT I think that greatest sin of the believer is his own complacency; that we are neither hot nor cold. We are so in love with our selves, impressed with our own spiritual prose so much that we miss that there is someone who is lost, whose life is broken and don’t have a clue on how to get right! And we hold the keys to their liberty but we are too stuck gazing at the wonder we have become that we miss their need…
Do Better & Be Blessed! *SMILE*
Matthew 28:18-20 "Jesus came and told his disciples, “I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth. 19Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations,b baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. 20Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
