Understanding our union with Christ is what provides us joy in walking with Him. We truly do walk with a living God, not only outside of us, but dwelling in us. Our union in Christ is also the strength to live the Christian life.
You and I probably heard this “proverb” growing up. I did. Or maybe we used it ourselves in raising our children or being a good friend to another. It is the saying that goes something like this, “You will become like the company you keep.”
HEBREWS 12:1-2 -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, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross,…
LUKE 12:49-53 – “I came to cast fire on the earth, and would that it were already kindled! 50 I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how great is my distress until it is accomplished! 51 Do you think that I have come to give peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division. 52 For from now on…
1 PETER 3:8 – Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind. THEME OF THE DAY. THE TENDER-HEARTED CHRISTIAN. Apart from Christ’s love for us, if we were forced to pick one other of His character traits that is of the greatest comfort to us, what would we pick? I know this…
2 THESSALONIANS 3:13 – As for you, brothers, do not grow weary in doing good. THEME OF THE DAY. HANG IN THERE, BROTHERS AND SISTERS. Let’s admit it. There are times we want to take a break from life. There are times we would like to just stay in bed and let the world go on without us. There are times we…