Devotional Guide For the week of March 30, 2008
CAN WE BE PURE?
About good works
To read the Bible in one year, today read Judges 13-15
To Know:
³And he said, Hearken, all Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, and King
Jehoshaphat: Thus says the Lord to you, Fear not, and be not dismayed at
this great multitude; for the battle is not yours but Godıs.ı² (2
Chron.20:
15)
When the Wa****ngton D.C. police caught what they thought was a gang of
second-rate burglars they initiated a law enforcement nightmare. The
investigation of the Watergate break-in landed in the lap of Congress.
What
seemed to be petty thievery turned out to be White House criminality.
When Israel conquered the promised land certain nations were spared. In
the
days of King Jehoshaphat these nations formed an axis against Israel. They
were far too powerful for Godıs people to defeat. This looming war was not
as it appeared. This was a spiritual conflict and God would fight and win
it
for his people.
The Christian life is not what it seems. It is spiritual warfare. The
world,
the flesh, and the Devil are powers beyond our strength to defeat. This
battle must be won by faith. The Christian life is lived ³in Christ²
because
he creates in us the life that God commands.
To Do:
Good-works religion fights spiritual battles in the strength of flesh and
blood. It would be more accurate to say that good-works religion fights in
the weakness of flesh and blood. There is not a man or woman now or ever
who
has it in him or her to live a life pleasing to God. It is actually an
insult to the holiness of God for any sinful human being to propose that
they have devised a religion able to satisfy the demands of the law of
God.
How could imperfect men and women please a perfect God? The very boast to
have done so is itself sin.
To Ask:
Father, I trust you. Please forgive my sin and free me for a life of
serving
you.
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