2 CORINTHIANS 4:6 – For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. THEME OF THE DAY. THE RADICAL CHRISTIAN LIFE. Let’s sit back for a moment and think of the radical things we tell the world because…
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Luke 14:27 – Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.
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1 CORINTHIANS 7:35 – And this I say for your own profit, not that I may put a leash on you, but for what is proper, and that you may serve the Lord without distraction. THEME OF THE DAY. UNPLUGGED. Before we move on in today’s nugget, please go back and read the scripture and ponder the last five words particularly –…
As one gets older, two things start to occur in our thinking. Now before I identify those two signs of aging, they are an inseparable marriage in the Christian who is passionate about leaving a mark for Christ in their life. However, they are poles apart in the non-Christian and lukewarm, backslidden Christians. In fact, the second sign of aging is absent in the non-Christian and never thought of by the lukewarm, backslidden Christian. So, what are the aging signs?
Our lives often are nice neat packages of projects, responsibilities, schedules, and tasks. And that works in a lot of things but not when it comes to obeying the command of our Lord to “love one another.” He doesn’t give us a nice little handbook to follow. Nor does He gives us a pamphlet of three easy instructions to implement. No, like all things in the Christian life, He brings us to Himself. He is the “handbook”. He is the sheet of instructions. The simple words “just as I have loved you” force us to do two things, if we are to obey it.
When it comes to following the Lord Jesus and being a Christian who wants to make a difference in this world, motivation matters a lot. It is a Biblical reality that each of us will stand before Jesus and give a detailed account for all we did in this life (2 Corinthians 5:10). And what will be chief behind all we did will be our motive; what motivated us in life, what motivated us to do what we did in Jesus’ name.
The longer I live and observe the world around me, as well as the struggles within me, I am becoming more and more aware of the devastating and deceiving results of sin in the human experience. There are a lot of things which may be said of this, but I want us to ponder just two; the obsession with humans for happiness and the discontent caused by looking for it in all the wrong places.