Do we realize the blessings we have? - 09/17/01 02:55 PM
It made me ask myself a few questions, and, I didn't have a ready answer for them.
All too often we forget what our 'job' is here.
It's to become more like Jesus and to share His love and grace with the rest of the world.
Please leave a comment about what this has said to you, we all need the help.
Multiplied Blessings
Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge
of God, and of Jesus our Lord, according as his divine power
hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and
godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to
glory and virtue. 2 Peter 1: 2, 3.
In the first chapter of the second epistle of Peter you will
find the promise that grace and peace will be multiplied unto
you, if you will "add to your faith virtue; and to virtue
knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance
patience; and to patience godliness; and to godliness brotherly
kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity" (2 Peter 1: 5- 7).
These virtues are wonderful treasures. . . .
Shall we not strive to use to the very best of our ability the
little time that is left in this life, adding grace to grace,
power to power, making it manifest that we have a source of
power in the heavens above? Christ says: "All power is given
unto me in heaven and in earth" (Matt. 28: 18). What is this
power given to Him for? For us. He desires us to realize that He
has returned to heaven as our Elder Brother and that the
measureless power given Him has been placed at our disposal. . .
We are to represent Christ in all that we say and do. We are
to live His life. The principles by which He was guided are to
shape our course of action toward those with whom we are
associated. When we are securely anchored in Christ, we have a
power that no human being can take from us.
The unstudied, unconscious influence of a holy life is the
most convincing sermon that can be given in favor of
Christianity. Argument, even when unanswerable, may provoke only
opposition; but a godly example has a power that it is
impossible wholly to resist.
Through His Son, God has revealed the excellency to which man
is capable of attaining. And before the world God is developing
us as living witnesses of what man may become through the grace
of Christ. . . .
What an honor He confers upon us, in urging us to be holy in
our sphere, as the Father is holy in His sphere. And through His
power we are able to do this; for He declares, "All power is
given unto me in heaven and in earth" (Matt. 28: 18). This
unlimited power it is your privilege and mine to claim.
>From God's Amazing Grace
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Examine me, O LORD, and prove me: try my reins and my heart. Ps.26:2
It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in men.Ps.118:8