Notes for a three-year journey through the whole Bible
Friday, 16 August 2019
Let's Give God Our Very Best.
Ephesians 4:7-5:14
God wants us to ‘grow up in every way into Christ’ (15). We are to
‘walk in love’ (2), a life which is ‘pleasing to the Lord’ (5:10). It is so easy for us to settle for something less than God’s very best. We settle down into a state of spiritual complacency.
What does God have to say about this? - ‘Do not grieve the Holy Spirit
of God’ (30). He gives us His wake-up call: ‘Awake, O sleeper…’ (5:14).
God says to us, ‘Awake, awake, put on your strength… Shake yourself from
the dust, arise’ (Isaiah 52:1-2). Have you become ‘lukewarm’? - ‘Be
zealous and repent’. Christ says, ‘Behold, I stand at the door and
knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come into
him’ (Revelation 3:16,19-20).
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