SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/9/2019 10:31 PM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-2 “The
Characteristics”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Ephesians
5:9-10
Message of the verses: “8 for at one time
you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light
9 (for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true),”
(ESV).
I
mentioned in our last SD that we are using the ESV because it shows verse nine in
a parenthesis which is the way that John MacArthur thinks it should be in reading
from his commentary. Also we looked at
the first of three characteristics, or fruit of believers that when they can be
seen in their lives we can be assured that they truly are believers.
The
second result, or fruit, of our walk as children of light is righteousness and
this has to do first of all with our relationship to God. Romans 4:5 says “To the one who does not
work, but believers in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is reckoned as
righteousness.” There is more to
righteousness, as it also has to do with how we live, so it is not just about
salvation but also about sanctification.
Those who are made righteous are commanded to live righteously to
present themselves “to God as those alive from the dead, and [their] members as
instruments of righteousness to God” (Rom. 6:13). Jesus Christ has given us His own Righteous
nature and so we are to pursue righteousness.
I
hesitate to even begin the third fruit of the light in this SD because of the
lateness of the hour, and also because it has been a very long and tiresome day
as there were actually good things that happened today and some other things
that were very challenging too. It is
not my desire to make such a short SD but that is the way it has to be for
today.
Quotations today is from Theodore Epp
who said “Our strength is seen in the things we stand for; our weakness is seen
in the things we fall for.” (I have to
say that I really like this quotation.
6/9/2019 10:46 PM
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