UN-RUIN A DATE OR ANY RELATIONSHIP!
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MORNING PIT STOP:
It is easier to ruin a date or be critical than to be positive and hopeful isn't it? And we know this is not by accident. But as Christ is the light He says we are also the light in as much as we walk in the light. And He says it in Scripture without doubting this. So, I think it is a matter of exercising our light if it is within us. Our minds must also be controlled by the light for, Wherever your treasure is, there the desires of your heart will also be. The ironic thing about that passage is if you reverse it it also works: If we place our desires in Christ He becomes our treasure. I used to struggle memorizing, and as a result, I said to myself, "I am just a person who can't memorize well." And for years I continued to struggle memorizing. Then, God got ahold of my heart and mind on this, and I started laying it in His hands, I actually verbally said out loud, "I am a great memorizer of His Word." Now, I said that back then, still not sure that I could, but by me saying it I was encouraged to continue in faith in not doubting God would help me. And now I memorize well, and I teach classes in discipleship with lots of memorizing verses. Thats praise to my Father by the way!
"Whether we live, therefore, or die, we are the Lord's." (Romans 14:8).
Kindness comes from our disposition in Him. Not our feelings. For many times we will not feel like kindness. Kind words come from the heart and mind of Christ which exemplifies the fact that kind words lift Him up, as well as each other up. We must never lay stress on the technical side of Christianity but always on the fundamental fact that we are Christ's and that all we do is unto Him. We live, "unto the Lord," and we die, "unto the Lord."
I have learned that we must never seek to persuade those who differ from us merely to think and act as we do. Our one aim must be to lead them closer to Him. We are not working for outward correctness, or conformity to certain good things, but for a closer relationship to God Himself. Has a brothers views that differ strongly from mine? Let it be my first concern that both he and I are doing what we do as "unto the Lord."
Where that is our goal notwithstanding outward divergencies (spiritually), all is well between us. The Lordship of Jesus Christ is the central point of our disposition. Kindness comes from the fruit of that, and kind words come from our will applying that disposition in earnest realness. If, in truth, He is your Lord, and He is my Lord, then He Himself will adjust the other things.
[HR][/HR] "Thank You Lord, for my Disposition!"
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"I love you; for loving me!"
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"I love them; as You love."
It is easier to ruin a date or be critical than to be positive and hopeful isn't it? And we know this is not by accident. But as Christ is the light He says we are also the light in as much as we walk in the light. And He says it in Scripture without doubting this. So, I think it is a matter of exercising our light if it is within us. Our minds must also be controlled by the light for, Wherever your treasure is, there the desires of your heart will also be. The ironic thing about that passage is if you reverse it it also works: If we place our desires in Christ He becomes our treasure. I used to struggle memorizing, and as a result, I said to myself, "I am just a person who can't memorize well." And for years I continued to struggle memorizing. Then, God got ahold of my heart and mind on this, and I started laying it in His hands, I actually verbally said out loud, "I am a great memorizer of His Word." Now, I said that back then, still not sure that I could, but by me saying it I was encouraged to continue in faith in not doubting God would help me. And now I memorize well, and I teach classes in discipleship with lots of memorizing verses. Thats praise to my Father by the way!
"Whether we live, therefore, or die, we are the Lord's." (Romans 14:8).
Kindness comes from our disposition in Him. Not our feelings. For many times we will not feel like kindness. Kind words come from the heart and mind of Christ which exemplifies the fact that kind words lift Him up, as well as each other up. We must never lay stress on the technical side of Christianity but always on the fundamental fact that we are Christ's and that all we do is unto Him. We live, "unto the Lord," and we die, "unto the Lord."
I have learned that we must never seek to persuade those who differ from us merely to think and act as we do. Our one aim must be to lead them closer to Him. We are not working for outward correctness, or conformity to certain good things, but for a closer relationship to God Himself. Has a brothers views that differ strongly from mine? Let it be my first concern that both he and I are doing what we do as "unto the Lord."
Where that is our goal notwithstanding outward divergencies (spiritually), all is well between us. The Lordship of Jesus Christ is the central point of our disposition. Kindness comes from the fruit of that, and kind words come from our will applying that disposition in earnest realness. If, in truth, He is your Lord, and He is my Lord, then He Himself will adjust the other things.
[HR][/HR] "Thank You Lord, for my Disposition!"
&
"I love you; for loving me!"
&
"I love them; as You love."
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