We have a great day ahead of us today, friends!
Let’s make it a great day!
Let’s walk through today with purpose, not just letting it pass us by thinking of it as “just another day”. Today is the only shot we will have at putting meaning into these 24 hours.
Psalms 37:1 NLT
Don’t worry about the wicked or envy those who do wrong.
Proverbs 18:10 ESV
The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous man runs into it and is safe.
Psalms 32:8-9 NLT
The lord says, “I will guide you along the best pathway for your life. I will advise you and watch over you. Do not be like a senseless horse or mule that needs a bit and bridle to keep it under control.”
Psalms 32:1 NLT
Oh, what joy for those whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is put out of sight!
You might be a Pharisee if:
It is important to you that you give 10 percent of your money to the church
You might know Christ if:
You have surrendered your whole life and everything in it to Christ.
Matthew 9:10-13 ESV
And as Jesus reclined at table in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and were reclining with Jesus and his disciples. And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” But when he heard it, he said, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. Go and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”
1JN 4:20 ESV
If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.
Yep, I feel like a noisy gong.
Yep, I read these posts of mine and wonder how much bigger of a hypocrite I look like every day.
Galatians 6:2 AMP
Bear (endure, carry) one another’s burdens and troublesome moral faults, and in this way fulfill and observe perfectly the law of Christ (the Messiah) and complete what is lacking [in your obedience to it]
PERSONAL COMMENTARY
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Yes, sometimes it isn’t easy to endure someone else’s moral faults – but I try to remind myself how much people have forgiven me for in my own life.
At times, I find myself grumbling about what someone else is or isn’t doing at work, home, church, wherever – and it’s such a dark and dirty place to let my mind go to. So why do I even let it go there?
This is a struggle for me at times. And I ask myself, at what point do I step in and do something about it?
And is the problem really the other person, or is it my attitude? In some cases it is just my attitude, but in other cases it is both. So I should fix my attitude first, then if my attitude is corrected and the problem still exists in the other person’s actions, I should offer loving and gentle guidance if and when it is appropriate for me to do so.
But I have to fix my attitude first.
I’m really struggling with this. Especially when I see situations where multiple people are being negatively affected by one person’s actions, and where the attitudes of a group is being brought down by the actions (or idleness) of a few or of one.
Yes, sometimes our murmuring is justified from an early/worldly perspective when we are carrying the weight and one person knows but refuses to do their part, and it begins to affect the others if the disease is not either healed or cut out. Spiritually, I should be wondering how I can either heal it or cut it out the disease before it spreads even more death -,not grumbling about the person. However, knowing how to best do this isn’t always easy.
2 Thessalonians 3:7-12 AMP
For you yourselves know how it is necessary to imitate our example, for we were not disorderly or shirking of duty when we were with you [we were not idle]. Nor did we eat anyone’s bread without paying for it, but with toil and struggle we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden or impose on any of you [for our support]. [It was] not because we do not have a right [to such support], but [we wished] to make ourselves an example for you to follow. For while we were yet with you, we gave you this rule and charge: If anyone will not work, neither let him eat. Indeed, we hear that some among you are disorderly [that they are passing their lives in idleness, neglectful of duty], being busy with other people’s affairs instead of their own and doing no work. Now we charge and exhort such persons [as ministers in Him exhorting those] in the Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah) that they work in quietness and earn their own food and other necessities.
Harold J. Ballinger 