We must pay close attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it, Hebrews 2:1 It is easier to drift away from godliness, than it is to drift towards it. Godliness requires discipline, focus, and intention. Each day is meant to be lived for the enjoyment of God, for the glory of God, and as a blessing to others. The salvation we have received is precious, and we should take heed so that we lose it not, but receive a full reward, 2 John v8
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We are not to implicitly trust our conscience. Whenever our conscience condemns us (1 John 3:20), we must remind ourselves that God is greater than our conscience(heart), and he knows everything. Yet, it also follows that, when our conscience acquits us, God still is greater than our conscience, and still he knows everything. Once in a while, we might not feel assured of our righteousness (that righteousness that is not by works of the law, but rather by faith in Jesus Christ). In the event that our hearts/conscience condemns us, we can trust that God has accepted us. But we should also beware that just so, we might live in an imagined security that we have been accepted, when in fact God condemns us. Our assurance of faith, of righteousness, and of salvation doesn’t rise or fall with what our hearts tell us. Let us, instead, lean in on the Word of God, and let it be that which either acquits us, or condemns us.
Job 9:4 Who has hardened himself against God, and succeeded?
Yes, sometimes life does consist of so much performances, but I have begun to feel it takes God’s intervention to push you beyond a performance into something quite beyond it, reality!
That Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing is this good, and to think that I kept myself from it until now!
Oh my goodness! This so interesting.
Joshua 5:13-14 NIV [13] Now when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in his hand. Joshua went up to him and asked, “Are you for us or for our enemies?” [14] “Neither,” he replied, “but as commander of the army of the Lord I have now come.” Then Joshua fell facedown to the ground in reverence, and asked him, “What message does my Lord have for his servant?”
Charles Spurgeon: God never saved any man for being a preacher, nor because he was an able preacher; but because he was a justified, sanctified man, and consequently faithful in his Master’s work
The creeds, are meant to summarize the most important tenets of our Christian Faith.
- The Apostle’s Creed
- The Nicene Creed
- The Athanasian Creed