Posts Categorized: Devotional

Fill Up With God

Posted December 9, 2013 | Judith Ingram

Scripture

Proverbs 29:18 (New Living Translation)

When people do not accept divine guidance, they run wild. But whoever obeys the law is joyful.

Consider

Aristotle was probably the first to say it. Horror vacui, or “Nature abhors a vacuum,” is a natural principle we all understand. Pour water from a pitcher, and the pitcher fills with air. Extinguish a candle, and darkness replaces the light. Take God out of our lives, and ungodliness rushes in.

We see it in our nation, in our schools, in our places of commerce: Wherever God is banned, Satan is glorified.

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Living On The Edge

Posted December 2, 2013 | Judith Ingram

Scripture

Ephesians 4:21-24 (New Living Translation)

Since you have heard about Jesus and have learned the truth that comes from him, throw off your old sinful nature and your former way of life, which is corrupted by lust and deception. Instead, let the Spirit renew your thoughts and attitudes. Put on your new nature, created to be like God—truly righteous and holy.

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Day by day—even moment by moment—we face the choice of living under heaven’s rule or the rule of the world.

When we choose to follow Christ, we receive a new nature and the indwelling Spirit as evidence that we belong to God.

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God Builds Us Up

Posted November 25, 2013 | Judith Ingram

Scripture

Jeremiah 24:6 (New Century Version)

I will look after them and bring them back to the land of Judah. I will not tear them down, but I will build them up. I will not pull them up, but I will plant them so they can grow.

Consider

It’s unhealthy and hurtful but we’ve all experienced it—the temptation to build ourselves up by tearing others down, to prove our superiority by exposing another person’s flaws. Sometimes the barbs are subtle—an innocuous comment that nevertheless stings because it feels like an insult. Other attacks are more blatant—

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Must We Love Our Enemies?

Posted November 18, 2013 | Judith Ingram

Scripture

Luke 6:27-31 (The Amplified Bible)

But I say to you who are listening now to Me: love your enemies, treat well those who detest you and pursue you with hatred, invoke blessings upon and pray for the happiness of those who curse you, implore God’s blessing upon those who abuse you.

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Intellectually, we may be sold on the idea that forgiveness is good medicine for us and for our troubled relationships. But requiring that we love and bless our enemies may seem a little too much for God to ask.

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My True and Upright Self

Posted November 11, 2013 | Judith Ingram

Scripture

Ecclesiastes 7:29 (The Living Bible)

And I found that though God has made men upright, each has turned away to follow his own downward road.

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The good news for us is, God made men and women to be good, true and upright, virtuous. He did not create us to be sinful and to do evil but to do good works. God designed us to be part of his perfect creation and to be fit companions for his holy and loving presence. But sin interferes. We know firsthand the terrible persuasive power of sin to twist and corrupt what God has set in place.

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