Verse of the Day 1/7

Hebrews 13:7 (ESV)  Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith.

 

R.C. Sproul, writing of Augustine, John Calvin, and Jonathan Edwards, wrote that "their minds and imaginations were captured by the majesty of God the Father.  Each of them possessed a profound affection for the sweetness of the excellency of Christ.  There was in each of them a singular and unswerving loyalty to Christ that spoke of a citizenship in heaven that was always more precious to them than the applause of men."

 

It is a stunning contrast when we compare those thoughts to what we see going on in the political arena today.  I read the following verse from Galatians 5 last night.

 

Galatians 5:15 (AMP)  But if you bite and devour one another [in partisan strife], be careful that you [and your whole fellowship] are not consumed by one another.

 

No matter which side of the political aisle you sit on you can see the "partisan strife" going on.  The candidates are backbiting and trying to devour one another.  They are also trying to put "the right spin" on every statistic, every pole conducted to use to their personal political advantage.

 

Our first president, George Washington, didn't really want to be president, he was pretty much pushed or forced into it by people who saw in him the same qualities described in Sproul's description of the "giants" of the faith in church history.  Oh that the candidates today would try to imitate George Washington.  O that our Christian leaders would strive to serve and show the faith and unswerving loyalty to Christ as did Augustine, Calvin , Edwards and others.

 

May we strive to be the kind of Christians that others would want to imitate our walk, our faith.

 

In Christ,
Mike

 

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Eph 1:7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace  NIV

Galatians 5:14-16  (ESV)

¹⁴ For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." ¹⁵ But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.

Keep in Step with the Spirit

 ¹⁶ But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

.....²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³ gentleness, self-control;against such things there is no law.