OK... so January is almost over... In fact, it was a month ago that we talked about 2009 and keeping the "Resolutions" from Proverbs 3...
So...
1. Are we finding our love and faithfulness for the Lord and for others growing?
2. Do you find yourself trusting in the Lord more today than last month - or last week?
3. Are you seeking HIS wisdom in all of your dealings?
4. Are you honoring the Lord with your wealth?
5. Are you open and welcoming the Lord's discipline?
6. Are you DAILY asking the Lord for wisdom?
7. How's your fear level? Does the daily news trigger heightened anxiety?
8. Are you serving others more?
9. Are you "plotting good" towards your neighbor?
and...
10. Whose ways are you choosing to mimic?
Comments welcomed... and responded to with inner glee!
Have a blessed week...
PJ
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When I ask the Lord for wisdom how do I know the difference between His wisdom and the wisdom I have acquired thru the years of life experience? That is assuming that the wisdom is not leading me away from His will for my life. Which if it does I know from where that wisdom comes.
ReplyDelete3 Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.
ReplyDelete5 If we have been united with him like this in his death, we will certainly also be united with him in his resurrection. 6 For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with,[a] that we should no longer be slaves to sin— 7 because anyone who has died has been freed from sin.
8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9 For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. 10 The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.
11 In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. 12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. 13 Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness. 14 For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.
What if each of us were to live our lives letting the knowledge of this wash over us and lead us and guide us and teach us in all we say and do? To treat others so generously and to know this and trust this and to embrace it so whole-heartedly that we never again had to struggle with self doubt or low self esteem. Nor depression nor unnecessary stress.
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,[a] neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.