Archive for April, 2023
Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever!
1 Chronicles 16:34, ESV
We do not understand God’s live, and we are rarely grateful for His grace and faithfulness.
Give thanks to God for loving us more than we can know!
When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?
Psalm 8:3-4, ESV
We like to think highly of ourselves, yet this vast universe reminds us how insignificant we are.
And yet God still loves us and has made a way for us to be with Him when we trust in the work of Christ.
But the Lord is faithful. He will establish you and guard you against the evil one.
2 Thessalonians 3:3, ESV
We like to think we’re indestructible or that “it won’t happen to me.”
Bad things can happen to all of us, and we face an end to this life. Our faithful God has lifted us up in Christ, and He fights for us with the Holy Spirit.
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age
Titus 2:11-12, ESV
We like to do what we want.
God calls us to live for others, seeking His righteousness and loving others like Jesus, turning from our selfish ways to Spirit-led life.
The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein
Psalm 24:1, ESV
We like to think we are our own, but everything belongs to God. If we want to be our own master, He will give us what we want, but it is infinitely better to be part of His redeemed.
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
John 11:25-26, ESV
Many people look for ways to prolong life and avoid death, but it is only by believing in Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection that we find eternal life.
So Jesus again said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture.
John 10:7-9, ESV
There are many false teachers out there, but Jesus has given us His Word and the Holy Spirit to help us know His voice and truth.
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
John 14:6, ESV
All truth must be filtered through Christ. This especially means the spiritual. We are only granted eternal life through believing in, obeying, and trusting Christ.
“Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.”
John 15:4-5, NIV
Apart from Christ, we can’t do any truly good things. Only in Christ are we capable of truly good works, His righteousness infusing us and flowing through us.
a simple man of God 