Daily Devotional Dec. 9, 2021:The Rags of Self-Righteousness
Look to the spotless character of Christ and not your own righteous which the Bible declares to be "as filthy rags".

Look to the spotless character of Christ and not your own righteous which the Bible declares to be "as filthy rags".
"Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good." Rom. 12:9
It is our prayer that you will have your lamp trimmed and burning and we will work together to prepare a people to meet God!
The Lord is calling His people to separate themselves individually from the enemies of truth. We should stand out as beacons of light and as advocates of our Heavenly Father while the entire world seems to be arrayed against Him.
Our deliverance through Christ is sure and was foretold long before His birth. Because of His perfect life we can have confidence that if we wholeheartedly follow Him, our salvation is sure.
Our we using our lives to bless others and honor God, or only for our own self-gratification?
Our religion cannot just be a form and it cannot be a little of Christ and a little of the world, if we allow a part of the word to remain with us soon none of Christ will abide in us!
Allow your walk to be defined by the Word and the voice of God, not by the completely by the voice of other people!
"Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ." Eph. 4:13
"And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her Seed; It shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise His heel" Gen. 3:15. This study focuses on the promise that there would be deliverance from sin through the Messiah, and the fact that the Jewish sacrificial services met it's fulfillment in the life, death and resurrection of Christ.
We need to be honest with ourselves and with God, only then can we whole-heartedly ask for His guidance and strength.
If we submit ourselves to God to be molded then we can rest assured by the promises of scripture that He will do all that He has said He will do.
By beholding we become changed, whether that's when we allow ourselves to gaze on wholesome things or biblically wicked things. "I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes..."Ps. 101:3 KJV
True religion only comes through Christ. It is my prayer that our religion be continually rooted and ground in Him and salted with His Holy Spirit!
"No power but a knowledge of the truth as it is in Jesus, will ever make us steadfast; but with this, one may chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand too flight." OHC p.332
We can do anything and overcome anything so long as we are rooted in Christ and filled with His Spirit!
Many have a form of godliness, but still find that they slip and fall when the temptations of Satan come to them. This is because they deny the true power of godliness, they do not daily seek help from the Holy Spirit and lean on the Lords righteous right hand. Without Christ we can accomplish nothing, but praise God that through Christ we can do all things with His help!
Christ the Prince of Peace never stated that life would be easy for His followers, but with Him we will have increasing inner peace which will help us to cope with life's problems.
The Lord wants to strengthen our faith through the furnace of affliction. When difficult times come, the Lord uses that to show us where our faith is.
Rejoice in the Lord friends, even when it seems impossible. He is working all things out in us to His glory and one day we will see the outcome!
"But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth." Psalm 86:15
It is my prayer that your faith in God will grow stronger with each trial that He brings you through. Don't let the adversary of souls bring you down and allow you to feel cut off from our God!
Why are we subject to death? Why was man kicked out of Eden? The answers to these questions can be found within the Bible and they are answers we need for this time!
The Lord knows our need far better than we could ever discern for ourselves and even in the perplexities of life He is working out a victory that will tell to His power!
The creation of the world is a fundamental belief of the true Christian which is clearly explained in scripture. Ex. 20:11 clearly states, "For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is...", but this truth has been questioned in the recent years as people have wanted to dismiss God as a personal being even within the professed camp of God. Science, falsely so called, has claimed new insight into the origin of the world and of species, but every time a scientist...
The Lord through Paul tell us to take heed unto thyself. We will be unable to labor for Christ if we are not fully connected to Him through the Holy Spirit.
We have a race to run, and above all things temporal it should be in our minds. Salvation for ourselves and salvation for others should be the first great endeavor in our lives!
We can only be truly safe so long as we lean on the everlasting arms of our Father. Human strength fails, when we trust to self, the record our lives and all through the Biblical record shows that we cannot without Gods help succeed for long. If you have found your walk with waning with God then look back and see if you have been truly including Him in your life at the deepest level. It is my prayer that you will experience God to the fullest today!!
Our homes should be a little slice of Heaven on this sin-darkened world, a place where Angels and Christ love to dwell!
We all have an individual responsibility to the Lord, or salvation is not tied to the walk of others.