Post by Woody Williams on Aug 10, 2012 6:11:30 GMT -5
Text for the Day -- Ephesians 4:17-24
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Now this I affirm and insist on in the Lord: you must no longer live
as the Gentiles live, in the futility of their minds. They are
darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God
because of their ignorance and hardness of heart. They have lost all
sensitivity and have abandoned themselves to licentiousness, greedy
to practice every kind of impurity. That is not the way you learned
Christ! For surely you have heard about him and were taught in him,
as truth is in Jesus. You were taught to put away your former way of
life, your old self, corrupt and deluded by its lusts, and to be
renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to clothe yourselves with
the new self, created according to the likeness of God in true
righteousness and holiness.
Devotional
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When you are disconnected from God you are disconnected from the
source of wisdom and power that lets you live in the light and not in
the darkness. In Jesus we have the pattern or model of the human life
lived in the awareness of and commitment to righteousness. Jesus
expressed the image of God that is able to be expressed in human life
when a person is awakened to the truth that is Jesus. Seek to live in
that truth.
Prayer
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Dear God, awaken in me a greater desire to live in the image in which
you have created me, my true self. Amen
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Now this I affirm and insist on in the Lord: you must no longer live
as the Gentiles live, in the futility of their minds. They are
darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God
because of their ignorance and hardness of heart. They have lost all
sensitivity and have abandoned themselves to licentiousness, greedy
to practice every kind of impurity. That is not the way you learned
Christ! For surely you have heard about him and were taught in him,
as truth is in Jesus. You were taught to put away your former way of
life, your old self, corrupt and deluded by its lusts, and to be
renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to clothe yourselves with
the new self, created according to the likeness of God in true
righteousness and holiness.
Devotional
----------
When you are disconnected from God you are disconnected from the
source of wisdom and power that lets you live in the light and not in
the darkness. In Jesus we have the pattern or model of the human life
lived in the awareness of and commitment to righteousness. Jesus
expressed the image of God that is able to be expressed in human life
when a person is awakened to the truth that is Jesus. Seek to live in
that truth.
Prayer
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Dear God, awaken in me a greater desire to live in the image in which
you have created me, my true self. Amen