Daily Devotions
"I want them to be encouraged and knit together by strong ties of love. I want them to have complete confidence that they understand God’s mysterious plan, which is Christ himself. In him lie hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge." Colossians 2:2-3 NLT
AUGUST 22
"If thou LORD, should mark (count) iniquities, 0 LORD, who shall stand? But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou may be feared [reverenced]."- Psalms 130:3,4
We are grateful to have the LORD’S assurance that if our hearts are in the right condition, and if we daily ask for forgiveness of our shortcomings, he will not count our failures against us. Psalms 32:5
August 22
Wist ye not that I must be about My Father's business? (Luke 2:49)
SHOULD we not all have the Master's Spirit, expressed by His words?...The Lord's true saints have no business of their own, for they gave their all to the Lord at consecration. Their business they manage as trustees for the Lord--not to be turned over at their death, in prosperous condition, to their children or their friends, possibly to their injury. It is to be used by the trustee as wisely as he knows how before death; for then his trusteeship ends, and he must render his account.
August 22
Grow up into. Christ: from whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love. Ephesians 4:15, 16
THE apostle's thought seems to be that while each new creature may be considered as a complete member of Christ, and have all the parts of his own character thoroughly lubricated with the spirit of love, in addition to this all the new creatures are to recognize themselves as members one of another, and of the body of Christ, the church, and are to exercise toward one another in their various efforts toward co-operation in obedience to the will of the Lord such love, such unction, such anointing, such lubrication, as will prevent friction and enable the whole body of Christ to co-operate for its own upbuilding in the graces as well as for its own completion in numbers.
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