Encourage One Another (Heb. 3:13)

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 01-17-03

 

My Worship Time                                                      Focus: Encourage One Another

 

Bible Reading & Meditation                                     Reference:  Hebrews 3:13

 

1.      Message of the verse:  “but exhort one another daily, while it is called "Today," lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.”  (NKJV)  “You must warn each other every day, as long as it is called “today,” so that none of you will be deceived by sin and hardened against God.”  (NLT)  The writer encourages the readers of this letter to encourage and exhort one another both in their daily lives and also in their corporate worship when they met together with other church members.  The needed to exhort each other because of the persecution and also because of their temptation to go back into Judaism.  One of the reasons he was encouraging them to exhort each other was so that they would not have their hearts become hardened because of the deceitfulness of sin which he point out in the latter part of the verse.

 

2.      Spiritual meaning for my life today.  As the writer points out sin is very deceitful and if I allow myself become continually involved in sin then it will get control of my life and I will not be able to live a life for the Lord Jesus Christ and His cause.

 

The Word of God did bring conviction to my heart today.

 

My Steps of Faith Today:  To trust the Lord for His success for our Bible study and also for the way Dave’s room turns out.

 

Memory verses for the week:  Ehp. 2:10 & Mark 12:30

 

For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

 

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.