Mid-Week Encouragement September 25th, 2024
A lot is going on today in the news, especially with the 2024 election approaching. It is crucial during this time that we, as Christians, vote for our values. Make or biblically moral stand seen by God and be the light the Lord has called us to be in this world.
We want our land to be healed by God, and we want this nation and the world to be filled with believers who love the Lord and the word of God. The reality is that Jesus calls it a narrow path for a reason. Matthew 7:14 "the gate is narrow and the way is constricted that leads to life, and there are few who find it."
There are many in this world today who claim to belong to the Lord yet live selfish, self-centered lives, constantly looking to satisfy their own desires and wants, sometimes under the guise of serving God. And though outwardly, they appear to be His servants, inwardly, they are wicked and do not know the Lord.
Matthew 23:27 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but inside they are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness."
Matthew 7:21-23 "Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. 22 Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, in Your name did we not prophesy, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name do many miracles?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.’"
Those of us who have submitted to the Lord have been given the Holy Spirit, and Christ has begun a work in us. Through "He that is in us..." we have the ability to resist temptation, turn and repent of sin, and in keeping the word of God, we walk that narrow path because the love of God is perfected in our obedience.
This is how we know we are on the narrow path and in Him. Not because we say, "I am a Christian," but because we live like one. And when a true child of the Lord stands before Him no Judgment Day, he will hear, "Well done, good and faithful servant."
1 John 2:1-6
"My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous; 2 and He Himself is the satisfaction for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world. 3 And by this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments. 4 The one who says, “I have come to know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him; 5 but whoever keeps His word, truly in him the love of God has been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him: 6 the one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked."
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