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March 14 - March 14, 2020
Please don’t think that God is playing games with you. “I see sin in your life; now you are going to have to guess what it is.” If games are being played, we are the players. We are the ones who avoid the light. Seeing sin does not demand unusual intelligence or insight, it just takes a willing heart.
“All disobedience against God deserves judgment, even death. And I certainly have been disobedient. But I already died. I can echo what the apostle Paul said, ‘I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.’”
We are joined with Christ by faith, not by the quality of our works. And don’t think that faith is a kind of work; it is resting in another when we can’t save ourselves.
No longer do we have to protect our reputation. Instead, we can die to it and concern ourselves with more important matters, such as how to love others. No longer do we have to be consumed with how we are treated. Dead people aren’t concerned about personal glory.
Take judgment out of death and it loses its fangs.
Who is in charge? God and what he says or me and how I feel?
Why would we ever be slow to speak with him? According to this passage, it is because of our pride. The passage is about humility, and casting our cares on the Lord is an expression of humility. Prayer is evidence of humility. Prayerlessness means that we neither believe him, which is pride, nor turn to him because we prefer to trust in ourselves.
whenever there is a clash between our sensory experience and the promises of God, the promises of God win.
Contrary to our feelings, he is already on the move.
What we need is to know the facts, meditate on them, say amen to them, put our trust in the King, and then talk about it to others. Don’t trust yourself if you just nod in agreement with the truth. There is a difference between nodding and speaking.
When I speak the truth, I am built up in my faith.
When God says stop, the nations will stop.
there is no life apart from the Author of life.
There is no peace apart from the Prince of Peace.
When we trace the history of fear, it goes back to humankind’s disobedience against God.
God doesn’t promise to spare us the hardships of life. However, he does promise to be with us and give us the courage to go through difficult times.
We are not our own, we are bought with a price (1 Cor. 6:19—20). Therefore, we don’t have to aspire to great projects. We can just open our eyes and ask God what he wants us to do now, like an eager child who wants to help his mother. We ask for a task and when we do it, we come back with a smile on our face and ask, “Now what?”
the ordinary done in obedience to Christ is beautiful, inspired, and oftentimes heroic.
