Thought for Today: Wednesday November 27
A prayer does not have to be eloquent or contain the language of a theologian. In fact, sometimes our simplest, most heartfelt prayers are most pleasing to YHVH… When Paul said: “we should pray without ceasing”, he chose the term used in his day to describe a persistent cough… YHVH is interested in everything we do, and nothing is too great or too insignificant to share with Him.
"A wicked man is an abomination to the just, and he that is upright in his way, is abomination to the wicked."
Pr 29
Take a look at the Torah Portion reading for this week!
"You have put off the old self." Colossians 3:9-10.
God's still working on you, but the process of regeneration has begun. Act accordingly. Continue to crucify the old nature, because it will keep trying to return until we have been physically resurrected.
Grace isn't a divinely bestowed super power. It's unobligated favor, an honor bestowed on one person by another. Just as God showed Paul grace in making him a teacher and evangelist, he graces every person in his kingdom with a unique set of skills and a mission to accomplish for the his glory and for the growth of his kingdom. That doesn't mean we all have a commission as high as Paul's, but as Paul pointed out elsewhere, every part of a body is important, no matter how lowly it might seem.
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If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
Colossians 3:1
To be "raised from the dead with Christ" is to be given a new nature that desires that which God desires. It is the beginning of God's Law written on our hearts.
HAPPY CHANUKKAH!
The festival of dedication begins this week on the fourth day at sunset.
"At that time the Chanukkah came to be in Yerushalayim, and it was winter. And Yeshua was walking in the temple, in the porch of Shlomo."
– Yochanan 10:22, 23
Kindle your lights after sunset on 11-27-2024.
Paul's use of the potter and clay analogy in Romans 9:21 is from Isaiah 29 that speaks of God's temporary hardening of Israel because of their sins. They blinded themselves with pride, so he blinded them further to ensure that his judgment would be carried out, with the intent that the nation would eventually repent and be restored.
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What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
Romans 9:14
KJV translates adikia as “unrighteousness”, but injustice or unlawfulness would be as good. It isn’t just that God is the Law-Maker, but that the Law is a reflection of God’s own character. His instructions aren’t arbitrary. The form of every commandment is dictated by the form of the God who gave it.
Although the Law isn’t for his benefit and is tailored to our needs, we are made in God’s image, so that the Law is the written outline of God’s predestination of the believer to be transformed into the image of Christ.
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