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  • Will I Bring Myself Up to This Level? March 18, 2024
    …perfecting holiness in the fear of God. —2 Corinthians 7:1“Therefore, having these promises….” I claim God’s promises for my life and look to their fulfillment, and rightly so, but that shows only the human perspective on them. God’s perspective is that through His promises I will come to recognize His claim of ownership on me. […]
  • The Servant’s Primary Goal March 17, 2024
    We make it our aim…to be well pleasing to Him. —2 Corinthians 5:9“We make it our aim….” It requires a conscious decision and effort to keep our primary goal constantly in front of us. It means holding ourselves to the highest priority year in and year out; not making our first priority to win souls, […]
  • The Master Will Judge March 16, 2024
    We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ… —2 Corinthians 5:10Paul says that we must all, preachers and other people alike, “appear before the judgment seat of Christ.” But if you will learn here and now to live under the scrutiny of Christ’s pure light, your final judgment will bring you only delight […]
  • The Discipline of Dismay March 15, 2024
    As they followed they were afraid. —Mark 10:32At the beginning of our life with Jesus Christ, we were sure we knew all there was to know about following Him. It was a delight to forsake everything else and to throw ourselves before Him in a fearless statement of love. But now we are not quite […]
  • Yielding March 14, 2024
    …you are that one’s slaves whom you obey… —Romans 6:16The first thing I must be willing to admit when I begin to examine what controls and dominates me is that I am the one responsible for having yielded myself to whatever it may be. If I am a slave to myself, I am to blame […]