Today's Verse : Ephesians 4:24

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January 4, 2009

VERSE:
[P]ut on the new self, created to be like God in true
righteousness and holiness.
-- Ephesians 4:24
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THOUGHT:
One of the biggest decisions we face at the beginning of the day
is what we will wear. Well, no matter what we choose in the way of
clothing, let's make sure we choose to put on the new person God
re-made us to be when we became Christians. Those are the only
clothes that will fit us eternally!

PRAYER:
Dear Father, may people see the character and likeness of Jesus
in me today and every day. Lord Jesus, in your name I ask that you
please guide my decisions and help me know how you would have me
act in the situations that I am going to face today. Amen.

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Today's KJV Verse : Ephesians 4:24

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VERSE:
And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in
righteousness and true holiness.
-- Ephesians 4:24
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THOUGHT:
One of the biggest decisions we face at the beginning of the day
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clothing, let's make sure we choose to put on the new person God
re-made us to be when we became Christians. Those are the only
clothes that will fit us eternally!

PRAYER:
Dear Father, may people see the character and likeness of Jesus
in me today and every day. Lord Jesus, in your name I ask that you
please guide my decisions and help me know how you would have me
act in the situations that I am going to face today. Amen.

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Walk in all the way that the LORD your God has commanded you, so
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Ye shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God hath
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you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye
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Beyond the Call of Duty, by Rubel Shelly

For what the law was powerless to do ... God did by sending his own
Son ... in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be
fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but
according to the Spirit (Romans 8:3-4 TNIV).

When you hear of someone being "above the law" or "above the rules,"
what comes to mind? Perhaps the person who cut in front of you in
traffic; she must think she owns the road. Maybe the white-collar
crooks who poked holes in your retirement; they knew the rules about
insider trading and honest bookkeeping but simply decided to violate
them. Yes, there are people who break laws and breach the canons of
ethics. They don't care who gets hurt. They're only looking out for
themselves.

But there is another way of being "above the rules." One can function
at a level higher than the rules demand. Maybe we'd say "above and
beyond" or "going beyond the call of duty." The person who borrows your
car to run a quick errand fills a near-empty gas tank before bringing
it back. A stranger stops to help when you are stranded beside the
highway. You put a quarter in a parking meter for the car next to yours
because you see the time has expired.

You can spot the difference between the two attitudes a mile away. The
former won't help with rush or crisis situations at work because "it's
not in my job description." The latter never bats an eye about pitching
in or staying late because the good of the company trumps convenience
and protectiveness.

Jesus was above the rules.

Couples determined to work things out by the rules of fair play are a
counselor's nightmare. She doesn't think she's getting what she
deserves. He is convinced he is doing everything anybody could expect.
So the battle over rights and duties, expectations and demands is on.
Few couples wind up in that same office or in divorce court when he is
looking for ways to surprise her with kindness -- only to be outdone by
her creativity in showing how much she loves him.

Churches are afflicted with the same problem. The term is "legalism"
for trying to fix, place, and set in order by laws. Its opposite is not
liberalism but "grace." By the rules of time and place, Jesus should
not have prepared food on the Sabbath or stood in the way of a mob
intent on stoning a woman who had been caught "in the very act" of
adultery.

Jesus was above the rules. He wasn't arrogant, self-centered, and
willing to break the laws of heaven or earth. But he knew that law's
higher purpose was always to protect, empower, and love people. Thus he
associated with, showed kindness to, and made disciples of people who
had been rejected by most.

We must guard against making the rules hateful by losing sight of
people.

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"FAX of Life" printed each Tuesday. See Faith Matters for
previous issues of the "FAX of Life."

RELATED LINKS:
* The Perfect Example
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* Communication Jesus Style: Example
http://www.heartlight.org/articles/200209/20020924_example.html
* They're Always Watching You!
http://www.heartlight.org/articles/200610/20061021_watchingyou.html
* RubelShelly.com
http://www.rubelshelly.com/

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MORNING:

"I will give thee for a covenant of the people."
-- Isaiah 49:8

Jesus Christ is himself the sum and substance of the covenant, and as
one of its gifts. He is the property of every believer. Believer, canst
thou estimate what thou hast gotten in Christ? "In him dwelleth all the
fulness of the Godhead bodily." Consider that word "God" and its
infinity, and then meditate upon "perfect man" and all his beauty; for
all that Christ, as God and man, ever had, or can have, is thine-out of
pure free favour, passed over to thee to be thine entailed property
forever. Our blessed Jesus, as God, is omniscient, omnipresent,
omnipotent. Will it not console you to know that all these great and
glorious attributes are altogether yours? Has he power? That power is
yours to support and strengthen you, to overcome your enemies, and to
preserve you even to the end. Has he love? Well, there is not a drop of
love in his heart which is not yours; you may dive into the immense
ocean of his love, and you may say of it all, "It is mine." Hath he
justice? It may seem a stern attribute, but even that is yours, for he
will by his justice see to it that all which is promised to you in the
covenant of grace shall be most certainly secured to you. And all that
he has as perfect man is yours. As a perfect man the Father's delight
was upon him. He stood accepted by the Most High. O believer, God's
acceptance of Christ is thine acceptance; for knowest thou not that the
love which the Father set on a perfect Christ, he sets on thee now? For
all that Christ did is thine. That perfect righteousness which Jesus
wrought out, when through his stainless life he kept the law and made
it honourable, is thine, and is imputed to thee. Christ is in the
covenant.

"My God, I am thine-what a comfort divine!
What a blessing to know that the Saviour is mine!
In the heavenly Lamb thrice happy I am,
And my heart it doth dance at the sound of his name."

EVENING:

"The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way
of the Lord, make his paths straight."
-- Luke 3:4

The voice crying in the wilderness demanded a way for the Lord, a way
prepared, and a way prepared in the wilderness. I would be attentive to
the Master's proclamation, and give him a road into my heart, cast up
by gracious operations, through the desert of my nature. The four
directions in the text must have my serious attention.

Every valley must be exalted. Low and grovelling thoughts of God must
be given up; doubting and despairing must be removed; and self-seeking
and carnal delights must be forsaken. Across these deep valleys a
glorious causeway of grace must be raised.

Every mountain and hill shall be laid low. Proud creature-sufficiency,
and boastful self-righteousness, must be levelled, to make a highway
for the King of kings. Divine fellowship is never vouchsafed to
haughty, highminded sinners. The Lord hath respect unto the lowly, and
visits the contrite in heart, but the lofty are an abomination unto
him. My soul, beseech the Holy Spirit to set thee right in this
respect.

The crooked shall be made straight. The wavering heart must have a
straight path of decision for God and holiness marked out for it.
Double-minded men are strangers to the God of truth. My soul, take heed
that thou be in all things honest and true, as in the sight of the
heart-searching God.

The rough places shall be made smooth. Stumbling-blocks of sin must be
removed, and thorns and briers of rebellion must be uprooted. So great
a visitor must not find miry ways and stony places when he comes to
honour his favoured ones with his company. Oh that this evening the
Lord may find in my heart a highway made ready by his grace, that he
may make a triumphal progress through the utmost bounds of my soul,
from the beginning of this year even to the end of it.

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My Utmost For His Highest : "Clouds And Darkness"

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CLOUDS AND DARKNESS

Clouds and darkness are round about Him.

Psalms 97:2
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A man who has not been born of the Spirit of God Will tell you that
the teachings of Jesus are simple. But when you are baptized with the
Holy Ghost, you find "clouds and darkness are round about Him." When
we come into close contact with the teachings of Jesus Christ we have
our first insight into this aspect of things. The only possibility of
understanding the teaching of Jesus is by the light of the Spirit of
God on the inside. If we have never had the experience of taking our
commonplace religious shoes off our commonplace religious feet, and
getting rid of all the undue familiarity with which we approach God,
it is questionable whether we have ever stood in His presence. The
people who are flippant and familiar are those who have never yet
been introduced to Jesus Christ. After the amazing delight and
liberty of realizing what Jesus Christ does, comes the impenetrable
darkness of realizing Who He is.

Jesus said: "The words that I speak unto you," not the words I have
spoken, "they are spirit, and they are life." The Bible has been so
many words to us - clouds and darkness - then all of a sudden the
words become spirit and life because Jesus re-speaks them to us in a
particular condition. That is the way God speaks to us, not by
visions and dreams, but by words. When a man gets to God it is by the
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MUTUAL SHARING

Romans 1:8-15
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Dear Father,

Thank you in Jesus Christ for every devoted Christian whose faith
is proclaimed abroad. I thank you that they are a strength to me.
Help me be a strength to them. May our mutual sharing of faith be a
rich spiritual blessing from you.

Help all of us to realize that we are under obligation to explain
our faith to the learned and unlearned, the cultured and the
backward, the wise and the foolish, everyone!

Fill us to overflowing with an eagerness to proclaim the Good News
about Jesus everywhere!

In his holy name I pray. Amen.

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No Hidden Skeletons

[Continuing the genealogy of Jesus Matthew lists] David was
the father of Solomon (his mother was Bathsheba, the widow of
Uriah). Solomon was the father of Rehoboam. Rehoboam was the
father of Abijah. Abijah was the father of Asaph. Asaph was
the father of Jehoshaphat. Jehoshaphat was the father of
Jehoram. Jehoram was the father [ancestor] of Uzziah. Uzziah
was the father of Jotham. Jotham was the father of Ahaz. Ahaz
was the father of Hezekiah. Hezekiah was the father of
Manasseh. Manasseh was the father of Amos. Amos was the
father of Josiah.

-- 1:6b-10 (ERV)

KEY THOUGHT:
Nearly every family has a few skeletons in its closets, and you can
find them if you open up enough closets! As a propaganda piece, the
Bible is not very good because it doesn't even try to hide the
skeletons -- not even in Jesus' family tree. Instead, the Scriptures
are brutally honest about the failures of even our greatest Bible
heroes. You look through today's verses and you'll find some serious
skeletons. It's as if God is saying to us, "If I can bring triumph
through them and their failures, just imagine what I can do through
you!" I don't know about you, but that surely is encouraging to me. I
call this the principle of "Hallelujah anyway!" God's power and grace
triumph over our failures. (FYI, for those not familiar with the idiom,
"a skeleton in the closet" is another way of saying that someone has
some bad family secrets that they try to keep hidden. One of the most
signficant "skeletons" is Bathsheba, the one for whom David lusted,
then had her husband placed in danger so that he died in battle, and
then David finally married her.)

TODAY'S PRAYER:
Almighty God, I am thankful that your strength is made perfect in
weakness. I don't want to stumble or fall in my service to you, but it
is very encouraging to know that you have raised so many others up from
failure and made them useful and holy to you. Please forgive my sins
and empower me to overcome my weaknesses and sin. Thank you for giving
me reasons not to give up when I do falter. In the name of Jesus, my
atoning sacrifice and hero, I pray. Amen.

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