Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Why You Need To Set Your Mind And Ways Aright

My Utmost For His Highest
 
…whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. —1 Corinthians 10:31
 
“We have a tendency to look for wonder in our experience, and we mistake heroic actions for real heroes. It’s one thing to go through a crisis grandly, yet quite another to go through every day glorifying God when there is no witness, no limelight, and no one paying even the remotest attention to us. If we are not looking for halos, we at least want something that will make people say, “What a wonderful man of prayer he is!” or, “What a great woman of devotion she is!” If you are properly devoted to the Lord Jesus, you have reached the lofty height where no one would ever notice you personally. […] The true test of a saint’s life is not successfulness but faithfulness on the human level of life. […] our purpose should be to display the glory of God in human life, to live a life “hidden with Christ in God” in our everyday human conditions (Colossians 3:3).”  CHAMBERS
 
Every day, in every way we have the opportunity to show Jesus to the world.  The way we live, what we value, how we treat other people.  From our lives should flow rivers of living water.  The source of that living water is the Spirit of God.  (John 7:37-39) “On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’” Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.” For that to happen we must let the Spirit reign in us.  It is the work of the Spirit in the Believer’s life that people see.  The Spirit is the light, the glory, that shines out of us for the world to see. (Romans 8:3-5) “For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.”  And so set your mind and ways aright, let your light shine Christian! ELGIN
 
River Of Life
 
I’ve got a river of life flowing out of me
Makes the lame to walk and the blind to see
Opens prison doors and sets the captives free
I’ve got a river of life flowing out of me
 
Spring up oh well, within my soul
Spring up oh well and make me whole
Spring up oh well and give to me, that life abundantly

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