Posts Tagged ‘ Die to self ’
This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.
Joshua 1:8, ESV
God has called us to faithfulness, and He has given His help by His Holy Spirit and the Word – the Bible. We study the Word and the Spirit works it in and through us to faithfulness.
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us
Hebrews 12:1, ESV
We have been called to faithfulness. God has shown us how He has been faithful to help someone many others remain faithful, so give Him all your sin, temptations, weaknesses, strengths, power, and goodness to see how He can help you, too
But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.
Acts 20:24, ESV
We have been called to faithfulness. It is God’s grace that helps us remain faithful, especially to share the Gospel of grace to this world, even if it costs us our earthly lives. That was the cost for our grace from Jesus.
Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
1 Timothy 6:12, ESV
We have been called to faithfulness. Thanks be to God that His faithfulness brings us eternal life and guides us in faithfulness. Trust Christ.
In the days of His flesh, He offered up both prayers and supplications with loud crying and tears to the One able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His piety.
Hebrews 5:7, NASB1995
Christ came to be our example in all things, especially in sacrificial love, showing us the closeness of God through prayer even and especially in difficult times.
“just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”
Matthew 20:28, NASB1995
We are called to be like Christ, and, even being God, He took it upon Himself to serve others.
Don’t neglect to do what is good and to share, for God is pleased with such sacrifices.
Hebrews 13:16, CSB
God created us for fellowship, but we broke that by stealing from His glory and our own honor. He became one of us to restore fellowship, and He calls us to similarly sacrifice and care for each other to His glory.
The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!“
John 1:29, CSB
God created us for fellowship, but we sinned, rebelled against Him and each other. Yet He became one of us to restore that fellowship. May we recognize and point others to our Savior who takes away our sin and welcomes us to Himself.
For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God. He was put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit
1 Peter 3:18, CSB
God made us good and for fellowship, but we have all acted with evil intent that has separated us. Despite this, He came to us as one of us to take our evil on Himself to remove our evil and restore fellowship for all who believe.
I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Galatians 2:20, CSB
How can we go on loving our sin when Christ died for those sins and now lives in us? Let us cling to our Savior and seek His love and grace in every area of our lives.
a simple man of God 