REBOOT 1
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If I've learned anything in the past few weeks, regardless of where people are in relation to maturity in Christ, we have to gear up the young and old in
but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name,
- laid aside His glory, took on shame
- laid aside His glory, took on shame
looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
- endured the cross
- endured the cross
We are so used to our normal routines and life that when any disruption occurs, we get extremely frustrated and impatient.
God's word has something to share with us.\
WHAT IS SHAKING ? -
At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.”
This phrase, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of things that are shaken—that is, things that have been made—in order that the things that cannot be shaken may remain.
Shows us that our trust was in something unstable, inconsistent, and temporary.
as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
God's Word shows us that there can be great joy in this aspect of the hardness of life because it matures us
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds,
for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.
And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
SEINGING CHRIST FORMED
my little children, for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ is formed in you!
Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—
For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God.
WHEN THE HELPER COMES
WHEN THE HELPER COMES
“But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.
Teach me to do your will, for you are my God! Let your good Spirit lead me on level ground!
YOUR WORD
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.
STEADFAST
. Paul even writes that we should do whatever work we do as worship to the Lord and from the very center of who we are (). And so we should never pray away this type of difficulty; rather, we should embrace it, discern its purpose, look to Jesus, and pray to be made more like him through it all. Through many of life’s difficulties we are made more like Jesus. “We who live are always being given over to death for Jesus’s sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh” ().