Grace for your spirit September 11, 2015

Grace for your spirit

And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to His disciples, "Why is your teachers eating with tax-gatherers and sinners?  Jesus said, "It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick."  Matthew 9:11-12

Jeremiah the prophet cried out for healing among his people.  "Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there?" He saw his people wasting away, and prayed for a doctor and some medicine to save them. We live in a world that is sick and dying spiritually as well.  Will we search for, and welcome that healing for the sin sick souls?  Jesus has been called "The Great Physician" and so He is.  Let's help the sick reach Him in time.

Grace for your spirit September 10, 2015

Grace for your spirit

Harvest is past, summer is ended, and we are not saved.   Jeremiah 8:18

Even the animal and plant world knows that when summer is over, and harvest is past, you better get ready for winter or perish.  Jeremiah saw the winter of their lives on the horizon and they had done nothing to prepare. He cried out for them, but they did not listen.  As our lives rolls along, the winter of our lives is inevitable.  Shall we face the end of it all unprepared to meet our God?  Salvation is in Christ Jesus.  Let's not wait too long to seek that shelter.  

Grace for your spirit September 9, 2015

Grace for  your spirit

But God demonstrates His love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.  Romans 5:8

Hidden deep in the third verse of "Beneath The Cross of Jesus",  are words that need to be in our heart.  "And from my smitten heart with tears, two wonders I confess:  The wonders of His glorious love, and my own worthlessness."  When we can truly see how worthless we are as sinners, and acknowledge His love and sacrifice, it should pierce our heart.   We can only get the view beneath the cross of Jesus.  Let's get there.

Grace for your spirit September 8, 2015

Grace for your spirit

 For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through Him.  John 3:17

The mission of Jesus was clearly stated in His own words.  He came to seek and save the lost.  When anyone rejects Jesus and turns from the light of God, judgment has already come.  Jesus' mission was to release those captives, set free the downtrodden, and proclaim salvation to all.  May our ministry be in the path of Jesus.  Not to condemn, but rather to seek and save the lost. 

Grace for your spirit September 3, 2015

Grace for your spirit

Brethren, do not be children in your thinking; yet in evil be babes, but in your thinking be mature.  I Corinthians 14:20

We all must live with a split personality.  We walk after the Spirit, but we still live with a sinful nature.  It is important that we know what to accentuate, and what to eliminate.  In our decision making it is important that we seek maturity.  Yet when dealing with evil it is far better to have a spirit of children.  This combination will help us to walk after the Spirit and avoid the sinfulness that will detract us.  How great it would be if we could be mature and still know how to blush at evil.

Grace for your spirit September 2, 2015

Grace for your spirit

I gave you milk to drink, not solid food; for you were not yet able to receive it.  Indeed, even now you are not yet able, for you are still fleshly.  For since there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly, and are you not walking like mere men?  I Corinthians 3:2-3

Doctors can usually determine why some children never grow up.  It may be improper nourishment, or some disease in their body that stops proper growth.  The same kind of thing can happen to spiritual babes as well.  When babes never grow, never get off the milk and on to the meat, growth in stunted.  Additionally, when the sinful nature is fed by jealousy and strife, trouble follows.  Let's feed our soul with the word of God, and seek spiritual surgery to remove the diseases that kill us.  When we do, our walk in the Spirit can be filled with joy.

Grace for your spirit September 1, 2015

Grace for your spirit

And as they were coming out, they found a man of Cyrene named Simon, whom they pressed into service to bear His cross.  Matthew 27:32

How does anyone do that?  You step out of the crowd and carry the cross of Jesus to Golgatha.  It takes preparation for a moment like this, it takes maturity not to shirk the call, and it takes adrenaline to stand up to the task.  Preparation, maturity, and adrenaline.  Let's fill up with all three and get ready to go, go, go. As the song goes, "Must Jesus bear the cross alone and all the world go free? No, there's a cross for everyone, and there's a cross for me."