Today’s Word
Workmanship
“For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus, for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” Ephesians 2:10 Workmanship – Your life is a divinely inspired poem. Yes, that’s right. The same word used for “workmanship” in this verse is the root of our English word poem. In fact,…
Treasure
“for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” Matthew 6:21 Treasure – “So give me money, that’s what I want. Give me money, money, money, that’s what I want.” Do you remember John and Paul (not the disciples) lyrics? Even if you weren’t alive when they sang that song, you don’t have…
Dries up
“rejoicing dries up from the sons of men.” Joel 1:12 Dries up – Yesterday I received a newsletter on the plight of people in Haiti. It began with this verse from Joel. Today the newspaper headlines carried the story of more killing and turmoil in that country. A few weeks ago I wrote about Cite…
Condemnation
“Therefore there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.” Romans 8:1 Condemnation – God loves you and wants to forgive you. But watch out! As soon as you “get saved”, then God turns into the moral policeman who beats you up over every single thing you do wrong. Is that how you…
Conformed
“and do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind,” Romans 12:2 Conformed– EXTRA! EXTRA! Read all about it. I need to make a correction. In literary circles its called errata. But in spiritual circles it’s called “sin”. Conformity to this world is sin in God’s view. What’s…
Fasten
“I will set no worthless thing before my eyes; I hate the work of those who fall away; It shall not fasten its grip on me.” Psalm 101:3 We have a big field behind our home. It used to be full of underbrush and weeds. Whenever we walked in that field, our clothes would be…
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