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My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.
Psalm 121:2, CSB
Jesus calls us to emerge from and engage this world with the gospel, and He helps us every step of the way, for He is our Creator and Savior.
Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears us up; God is our salvation. Selah
Psalm 68:19, ESV
Our identity should be found in the One who saves us and holds our lives in His hands.
Are you Christ’s, or do you still identify by your interests, your love, or what you do?
Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
Philippians 2:3, ESV
The God of the universe and our Creator who deserves all worship took on human flesh to die the death we deserve for the evil we have committed.
May we be willing to demean and suffer for the sake of others as our Lord did, leading others to find Him.
but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
Philippians 2:7-8, ESV
The answer to the hatred, hubris, and hedonism of the world is to be like Christ: deny ourselves for the sake of others that they may come to know the lover of our souls, Christ.
He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
Micah 6:8, ESV
Too many start with their own will, and this is not good.
We are to seek the Lord’s justice, Love in His kindness, and know these by honestly seeking His will and living by it.
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Galatians 2:20, ESV
We are no longer our own. We have been purchased, redeemed, and our old self – with all of it’s desires and selfishness – was killed off on the cross with Christ.
What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
Philippians 4:9, ESV
We show we love God when we love others, and we do that by sacrificially living out the gospel as an example for others and for the glory of God by power of the Holy Spirit.
“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.”
Matthew 7:12, ESV
We love God by loving others, and we love others the same way God loves us: by grace, forgiveness, and sacrificing our own wants and needs for others.
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.
Romans 15:13, ESV
We may struggle in this life – whether from our own sin and mistakes or the way this world works – but in Christ the Father has given us His hope and peace through the Holy Spirit.
The reward for humility and fear of the Lord is riches and honor and life.
Proverbs 22:4, ESV
We think too highly of ourselves far too often, but if we truly “look inside our hearts,” we would see our need for God. Seek Him today and find eternal life.
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