"true to yourself?" 1 Timothy 4:16 "Keep a close watch on yourself and on your teaching. Stay true to what is right, and God will save you and those who hear you." I read this morning...that the iniquity of the world will abound, the love of many is going to wax cold. Are you one....am I one...one of those in which the love is waxing cold? Physically fit but spiritually bankrupt? "O God, may that not be our case."
There is a story told of a man who was lost in a blizzard. And as he was just blindly walking through the snow, blinded by the blizzard, he was becoming tired and weary until he just stumbled and fell and he just felt, I'll lie here for a little while. I just don't have the strength to go on. But as he was lying there, he came to the realization that what caused him to stumble was a body that was lying there being buried in the snow. And so realizing that there was another person there, he picked him up, felt that the pulse was still there, picked him up and started trudging through the snow, carrying now this other person with a superhuman effort and within fifteen feet, he came to the door of a cabin where he was saved. But he came to a very interesting discovery. And that is, in saving this other person, he in reality saved himself.
Not to sound "superhuman"...but perhaps Dear Lord, You may use me? Use me to bring Glory to Your Name? In my weakness, You Are Strong? If so Dear Lord, may You receive all the Glory!
"O Lord, be with us this day, this week...guide us in our 'paths' for Your Name's sake...make us strong, as the 'things-of-life' drain us, make us a witness to the world around...an example of what the believer ought to be bringing glory unto You God through our commitment to Jesus Christ."
God help you in these last days to stand strong. Stand firm.
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