RE Verse reading–Mark 5:22-43 (day two)
“If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed” (28). Are you still reaching out to “touch” Him? You do still see how sick you are, don’t you? Selfishness, falsehood, insecurity…sin, habitual and hidden, still seeps out. Justification is complete in Christ, but sanctification is an ongoing work of Christ, clothed in righteousness. If I would know the healing power of Christ, then I must resolve to reach out to Him, not once but always. Not Sunday but every day. So be it resolved, I will not…”get used” to sin in my life, be satisfied with partial sanctification, compare my growth to others and celebrate that “I am not like them,” and occupy myself with radio, TV, Facebook, movies, working out, and hanging out so that I don’t have to face how fragile, inconsistent, weak, broken, small-minded, unforgiving, prayerless and faithless I really am. No. I will reach for Christ. If I just touch His clothes…
Month: January 2013
40 Days of Prayer – Sight
You’re not weary of all that holiday music playing in every store you’ve set foot in for the past six weeks, are you? Didn’t that begin sometime around Halloween? It gets earlier every year. For 2014, it will start right after Arbor Day. Mark my words. At any rate, one of those tired old songs asks this: Do you see what I see? That’s not a bad question. Especially if the Lord asks it of you.
Day 40 – What are you not seeing?
The Lord can teach us the discipline of paying attention—attention to the way suffering works for the good in our lives, attention to our need to ask forgiveness from someone, attention to how we can serve somebody. We will not see if we do not look. Here’s a prayer: What have I missed, Lord?
Re: Verse reading – Luke 14:25-35 (day three)