Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord
READ, LINGER, PROCESS…
The people stand for truth or untruth, therefore, know truth. His name is Jesus, the Christ—Yeshua.
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, where He is first in the lives of its people.
The heart of every person is capable of all things evil, and is deceitfully wicked in arrogance.
I am persuaded by past and current events that my future events are limited.
Shake the dust of the past off your feet and understand that God works everything together for our own good.
Forgiveness starts with self, then others. Forgive yourself. God has forgiven you. Now, follow His examples in your relationships. Go, make things right. Shake off the dust of emotions that control your soul; shake off the hurt, the fear, and the failures. Now, walk on into your permanent, perpetual future with your Lord. Your future is now, perpetually.
The physical cross-death proved Christ was human. His resurrection is proof He is God. Inhale your eternal future with Christ, exhale your past without Him. You are cleansed, washed in His blood, forgiven.
You cannot change the past, but you can change your future starting right now. Then, tomorrow, your past will have changed… and your future.
Walk in truth through fields of grace. Abide in the Word. Be anchored in Scripture.
The church building we attend is a structure for worship and teaching. In Christ, the whole body rises to become a holy temple, and in Christ we are being built together to become a dwelling place of our Lord (Ephesians 2:21-22). When all the buildings of humanity are crumbled into dust, the temple of God—the body of believers in Christ—will live on forever. The purpose of every believer—the body of Christ—is made known the wisdom of God displayed by the cross and the testimony of the Church. The purpose of the Church is to proclaim Christ to the rulers of darkness and light in heavenly places, and in all the earth.
Romans, First and Second Corinthians, and Galatians develop the theme of Christ in you. But in Ephesians the theme is you in Christ, and this theme continues through Philemon. The believer marvelously placed in Christ is in union with Christ, and the believer is in the body of Christ—the church.
As believers, we are the Church and the Church is us.
God ordained history and called each believer before he created the earth or the universe. When He called us, he blessed us and equipped us for all of the details of our lives. We are to be holy and wholly filled with God. We are here to express God to the world. Our physical body is given to us to express and serve our own head so it is with the body of Christ.
The Lord delights in us.
Bible doctrine reveals the essence of God to man and embodies the absolute authority of divine sovereignty.
We are chosen to glorify Christ in time.
Every believer has a destiny. Therefore, each believer must learn to live their personal destiny. We are given our eternal position in Christ, therefore our personal integrity as we mature from learning and applying Bible doctrine perpetuates humility and nobility. We must learn God’s mandates and live them/apply them. We are to fulfill our destiny as individual believers and thereby we advance the kingdom of God.
All quotes are by C. S. Craig unless otherwise indicated.