Every day I will—it’s a choice. Some days the choice is easier; even so, we make it. Let us practice well.
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An Everyday Choice
New and Renewed
I want us to first read Colossians 3:10.
10 and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him, (link to the Text)
Now 2 Corinthians 5: 17
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. (link to the Text)
Can we agree that new man and new creation mean the same? Good.
This is shaping up to be another backdoor approach to the Text (if you missed yesterday’s post, click here). It seems to me from these verses that we who are in Christ are new men and new women. And from verse 10, we, the new man and new woman, from time to time need renewing. So, do we get dull or something?
But how?
And what could bring renewal to the new? Correct me if I am wrong, but it seems to me that verse 10 says that the new man can (in a sense) become not so new if the man (or woman) does not practice learning Him who rebirthed them.
We need to keep on knowing (learning) JESUS.
And how do we do that?
Only one way I know: conversing with Him in the pages of His Word, continuously.
Which is why I keep coming day after day, year after year, to this digital screen, because I want to keep on knowing/learning Him, and I want to encourage you to keep on knowing/learning Him too.
I hope I am.
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The Back Door
Sometimes I come at Scripture backwards, shall we say, like coming in the back door. Let me explain.
Matthew 22: 37 Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ Link to Text
I am thinking in this moment that is exactly what we do, especially when we have a god other than Him.
(Remember now, I said backwards . . . back door.)
The evil one does all he can to see to it that we put other gods before GOD, that we give those gods our heart, mind, and soul. I mean, we go after those little g gods with all we got — careers, cars, houses, prestige, making money, pleasures, comforts, etc., etc.
So, this being true, take heart, my dear Friends, because when we give our allegiance to the LORD GOD, when we surrender to His LORDSHIP, to the GOD and Savior, HE WILL do exceedingly, abundantly more than we can think or ask (Ephesians 3:20-21) to enable us to do just what He said: love Him with all our hearts, soul, and mind. We can REST in this. We can believe this. We can receive this with great joy!
Is my back door making sense to you?
We know from experience that the evil one gives us more help than we want to do the opposite of what GOD says to do.
SO, since the evil one does that, we KNOW the Father will go infinitely beyond and in the other direction to enable us to obey His Word.
Of course! He is going to help us to do every good thing He wants us to do!
And to all that, I can only say, Thank You, Father; we are depending on You.
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Sink In
I have something for us to let sink in today.
Luke 8:
9 Then His disciples asked Him, saying, “What does this parable mean?”
10 And He said, “To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest it is given in parables, that
‘Seeing they may not see,
And hearing they may not understand.’
I’d like to concentrate on just a few words from verse 10 today. The rest of verse 10, perhaps another day.
And He said, “To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God,
In the Text, at the time it was spoken, He was speaking to His disciples. What is a disciple, anyway?
Free Dictionary dot com says: One who embraces and assists in spreading the teachings of another, and an active adherent, as of a movement or philosophy. Link
According to that definition, does He still have disciples today? Moreover, are you one of them? Am I?
And if so, what does this Text say about us?
“To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God,
It has been given for us to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of GOD! Not that it may be given, but it has! Father GOD is not hiding His Kingdom from us- how it functions, why He has a Kingdom, etc.
He wants us to know!
So, what’s holding us up? Let that sink in!
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