Friday, June 29, 2012

Spiritual Temperature

SPIRITUAL TEMPERATURE

Proverbs 14:34

“Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.”

“You’re lying!” 14 year-old Michael yelled to his 10 year-old brother Jeremy.

“Am not!”

“No way that the gym is closing!”

Severe conflict and division rage throughout our nation—and throughout the world. Who isn’t arguing? It seems that everyone’s spiritual temperature is ice cold when it comes to loving others the way that Jesus commanded in John 13:34.

Here is something that might give you bright hope: “Based on our present spiritual temperature, we may forget that America has been the force behind world missions. Incredible [that is seems] that a country with 5 percent of the world’s population has launched 75 percent of the missionaries of the last century and has provided approximately the same amount of money and material aid.”1   WOW!

God’s Word is interlinked with every nation’s future because the Bible’s message is international. But it is also individual and personal. Salvation is offered only through faith in God’s Son Jesus Christ. This hope comes just in time for a spiritual awakening inside every person in the world.

The previous devotion, Not Guilty, shows Jesus as our advocate, our defense attorney. When Satan argues our guilt, Lord Jesus declares us innocent. He should know; His death on the cross bought believers’ forgiveness of sins (Acts 10:43). Everyone who embraces Jesus as Lord and Savior is declared innocent of every sin that Satan charges.

Colossians 1:19-20 confirms our victory: “For God was pleased to have all His fullness dwell in Him, and through Him to reconcile to Himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through His blood shed on the cross.”

So while the world rages, praise God that believers in Jesus are at peace! All believers in Christ are Spiritual beings according to Romans 8:9: “You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.” Verse 14 adds, “...because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.”

WOW! Is your Spiritual temperature growing hot for Christ?

Take Home Nugget

Jeremy pointed out to Michael the sign in front of the gym: GYM CLOSED JULY AND AUGEST FOR RENOVATIONS. “Uh, I didn’t know that. Sorry, Bro” Michael said to Jeremy.

The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth that God governs in the affairs of men.

Benjamin Franklin

1 John E. Walvoord, “America and the Cause of World Missions,” America in History and Bible Prophecy, Thomas McCall, ed. (Chicago: Moody Press, 1976), 21.

J.D. Griffith




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