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Last week I challenged you to meditate on the corruption that is in your heart and to use this to motivate you to get busy growing spiritually. One of these days we are all going to stand before the Lord who bought us with His blood and we are going to give an account… an account of what we did with the free gift of salvation… an account of what we did to grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior… an account of what we did to win the battle against the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. Read the rest of this entry »
Today is January 4th, 2009… the first Sunday of the New Year. My question for you is this… have you set any goals for this New Year, and if so, what is your greatest goal? I hope the answer to this question is an easy one… one that doesn’t take much thought. The greatest goal that anyone can have… and the goal that each of us should have… is to grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Let me ask you another question… did you grow spiritually last year? Are you more like Jesus Christ in thought, word, and deed today than one year ago? If so, in what ways? How did you become more like Christ… what method(s) did you use to achieve this goal? I trust we can all agree on this… the mere passing of time does not make anyone more like Jesus Christ… just because we are a year older physically doesn’t mean we have grown spiritually.
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Last week we saw that it was Jesus’ custom to be in the synagogue on the Sabbath. Now I am sure that Jesus found a lot of things to be less-than-perfect in the worship of God in the synagogue, but notice, He didn’t use that as an excuse to “forsake the assembling of ourselves together.” If anyone didn’t need to “go to church” it was Jesus… yet it was His custom to do so. What a rebuke to everyone who is slack in their faithfulness to the local church. If Jesus found it important to establish that custom, what does that say about those who attend when “it is convenient?”
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Today I would like to finish up the study we began last week. One of these days we are all going to stand before the Lord who bought us with His blood and we are going to give an account… an account of what we did with the free gift of salvation… an account of what we did to grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior… an account of what we did win the battle against the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. Read the rest of this entry »
