Sunday, September 21, 2014

Insights From Quietwalk Daily Devotionals

THERE ARE TWO BIBLE STUDIES I DO DAILY, 7 DAYS A WEEK.  Below are examples of insights from one of them---Quietwalk (QW).  If you want to subscribe to this free daily email service,  go here.   I cannot imagine starting my day without it.  Below are two insights from Paul's letters to the Romans.

INSIGHT

HOW GOD EVALUATES OUR LIVES:

There are several commonly held misconceptions about how God evaluates the deeds of men. One idea is that as long as we don't do anything "terrible," God will overlook our "little" sins. Another is that God weighs all our good works on one side of a scale and all our bad works on the other. If the good outweighs the bad, we're okay. A third incorrect notion is that God lines up all the people who have ever lived from the best to the worst and then divides them in half. If you make the cut, you're okay. The truth the Bible teaches is that God demands sinlessness. And since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, all people are condemned. There is only one way out: Receive Jesus as your personal Savior. Through Him, all your sins can be forgiven.

INSIGHT

THE DAILY STRUGGLE OF SURRENDERING OUR WILLS TO GOD

Our lives are a constant struggle between our own wills and the will of God. The circumstances of God's will are often strange and enigmatic; they do not always make sense. However, His will is being worked out even in ways we cannot see or understand. When we relinquish control of our lives and yield to God's will, then peace, love, and joy will characterize our lives. Paul must have wondered from time to time how shipwreck and imprisonment were working into God's will; yet with historical perspective, we can see that good came of these events. In the words of the old hymn, we must: "Trust and obey, for there´s no other way to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey."


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