Dailies ~in His Word
May 24, 2019
Don’t
do it, get rid of it, quit it, and then do good! Put it aside, get the stuff off of
you and just let it go! Ephesians 4 has
a lot of wisdom and love in it but mostly it talks about us changing! Because we have put on Christ, via the Holy
Spirit with us we have to change.
We
cannot be the old us who we, for some reason, thought was cool because we were
living in sin, living in the world and had a worldly mind set. We did not get
it, but now that we do; we must put away lying, anger must be tamed and truth
is what we need to speak.
Therefore,
putting away lying, “Let each one of
you speak truth with his neighbor,” for we are members of
one another. “Be angry, and do not sin”: do not let the sun go down on
your wrath, nor give place
to the devil. Let
him who stole steal no longer, but rather let him labor, working with his hands what is good, that he may
have something to give him who has need. Let no corrupt word proceed out
of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it
may impart grace to the hearers. And do
not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of
redemption. Let
all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from
you, with all malice. And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving
one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.
Ephesians
4:25-32
You
could think about it this way, you just bought a new sports car and you go and
drive it through the ditch full of mud and sticks and rocks and leave it that
way. That’s what is like when you get clean with Christ. All of us are dirty to
star out, we have mud all over us and God cleans us up polishes our chrome and
allows us to shine in the Son-shine!
Why
would w even think of getting dirty again God has given us freedom to decide to
be clean always!
Let’s decide
to stay out of the mud and work to keep shining by digging in the Word and
walking the way He says to walk. As Jesus did I mean that’s what we chose to do
when we chose to make Him our Lord.
Heavenly
Father, help us to follow Your guidance and stay in Your cleansing Word, Jesus’
name, amen .
Teresa M. Wilson