Tag: corinthians

  • Perseverance – Share your Christian social witness for Jesus Christ

    Perseverance – Share your Christian social witness for Jesus Christ

    Galatians 5:7 You were running the race so well. Who has held you back from following the truth?

    Philippians 2:16 Hold firmly to the word of life; then, on the day of Christ’s return, I will be proud that I did not run the race in vain and that my work was not useless.

    Hebrews 12:1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us.

    1 Corinthians 9:24 Don’t you realize that in a race everyone runs, but only one person gets the prize? So run to win!

    Philippians 3:14 I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us.

     2 Timothy 4:7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, and I have remained faithful.

    PERSEVERANCE! Endurance… in fact, the list is so long I will share the powerful synonyms:

    backbone*, constancy, continuance, cool, dedication, determination, doggedness, drive, endurance, grit, guts*, immovability, indefatigability, moxie*, persistence, pertinacity, pluck, prolonging, purposefulness, pursuance, resolution, sedulity, spunk, stamina, steadfastness, stick-to-itiveness, tenacity

    AND the antonyms, likely to convict me and you for our sometime LACK of will to spend time in the BIBLE & lack of PERSEVERANCE for our Lord Jesus Christ, who endured the Cross for us:

    apathy, idleness, indolence, laziness, lethargy

    A single picture of one racing to the finish line… or a single example of the faith of an Apostle like Paul… or a singular person of perseverance like Job will invigorate our race to the finish-line of our faith to meet the Author of our salvation.

    Kent Hughes, in his book 10 Disciplines of a Godly Man, points to Hebrews 12 as a guide for our perseverance.  “Divest, Run, Focus, & Consider,” is his advice for us.  When I think of any of the examples of our faith, I’m ready to get back in the race and run to the finish.

    Perseverance in prayer, Bible study, thankfulness, ministering to the needs of others, regular worship and willingness to talk of Jesus to anyone — just a part of this race in which our Lord has enrolled us.

    Won’t you SHARE your Social Witness for Jesus Christ?

    Add a thoughtful comment about your own race and encourage another today?

    Thanks. May our Lord bless you today to finish the race. – Roger – http://talkofJesus.com — Better than a sports drink for the race of Eternal Life

     

  • The Mirror of the Holy Spirit

    The Mirror of the Holy Spirit

    A brother in the Lord tells of looking in the mirror and hearing the Holy Spirit speak to him of his role in spreading the Gospel.

    Paul writes in his letter to the church at Corinth:

     1 Corinthians 13:

    But when I grew up, I put away childish things. 12 Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity.[c] All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.

    13 Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.

    agape – this deep love of God, our heavenly Father, Christ Jesus our Savior, and the Holy Spirit our Comforter is the LOVE we all need

    Look in your Bible. It is the first place to find the love you do not deserve and cannot earn.  Thank you Jesus for this gift of the cross.

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