Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord
READ, LINGER, PROCESS…
The laws of nature (or, more properly, creation) are established by “nature’s” God.
Believers are citizens of heaven, the kingdom of God, therefore the believer’s first loyalty is to the King of kings and Lord of lords—Jesus Christ.
The transformation in the believer’s life is from physical to spiritual, from the world to the kingdom, from I (self) to God-first and others-first.
From satanic influence to Biblical influence—the Holy Spirit’s influence. In every generation the influences of life are the same but the extent has many variations, differently.
Demonic influence will thrive in the last days (Reference 1 Timothy 4:1 and following).
‘Holy,’ ‘saint,’ and ‘sanctified’ are synonymous terms stemming from the same root word. All believers are saints, set apart by God, to God, and adopted into His family. In 1 Corinthians 6:11 our sanctification is an accomplished fact. In 1 Corinthians 1:2 our personal sanctification is an actual position that is not dependent on one’s spiritual growth and maturity, because our position in Christ was accomplished by Christ’s sacrifice for us, in our place (Hebrews 10:10,14).
Meditation is God putting life into perspective.
Right now, I’m somewhere in the ages, but… where are the ages?
We need to learn to depend on God’s omniscient counsel.
The Holy Spirit produces joy in us and peace. We manufacture our own misery.
The marriage of grace and faith occurs at the cross, and there is never a divorce. The result of this marriage is the new birth—salvation. Only grace can conceive. Grace initiates—faith responds.
False teachers are slaves to their sin nature and legalism, but they always promise freedom and success to their victims (2 Peter 2:19). Legalism enslaves and destroys freedom (Galatians 2:4).
God’s will and His demands will meet at the cross as we surrender our will to God. God rules our soul or the sin nature rules it—God rules or self rules.
We must learn to be servant-leaders.
Stand firm in the Lord. Keep hold of your eternal perspective. Finish the course through your fields of grace. Do not be anxious about anything.
Life is a production of storms and sunshine, ups and downs, victory and defeat, but the battle is the Lord’s and our walk is with the Lord. “Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times” (Isaiah 33:6).
Our current experiences are divinely connected with our eternal destiny. God works through His Word, through all the circumstances of our lives to fulfill His predestined plan in us. It is God in us, conforming our character to be like Christ. We are being prepared for eternity. Life and the details of life take on a whole new perspective when we understand that God himself prepares us for life in His presence, eternally with God forever and ever.
All quotes are by C. S. Craig unless otherwise indicated.