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turtle30cshell Daily Devotions For January 17, 2024
Have You So Learned
01/17/2024

Daily Devotions:
by Christina Farris

Ephesians 4:17-32 KJV
17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
20 But ye have not so learned Christ;
21 If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:
22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
27 Neither give place to the devil.
28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

We live in a world that takes notice of change in people, when they no longer irritated or a little more angry then normal. Even if we seem to control our emotions and facial expression. Whether person have social graces or rude in ever aspect of their life. There many people that learn Christ without being saved in spiritual aspect of faith. They seem to live the physical reality of what the Christian life should be, but never received Christ as Lord in the since of receiving His work on the cross. They receive all the teachings of Christ but no faith in the Man of God/Son of God/incorruptiple man. Some believe that faith is discipline behavior, beyond that and idea of love, the reality of a super being does not exist.

Have you ever taken building blocks and built a tower and then allowed a child to tear it down, only to restack the blocks. Jesus declared who he was. Allow people to worship him with palm branches and them he allowed them to crucify him with no legal defence. Why should he not be crucified and torn down. He had a healing and teaching ministry that was huge for his day and time. Then Jesus amazed them all, as he rose up and continued to love all the people of the world. His teachings alone are worth studying and applying to daily living, but it when you see Jesus as a being to worship and to know then faith becomes more then a discipline action of behaviors.

It becomes putting on who we are as followers of Christ spirit the person he desires us to be. It not so easy but neither is any discipline life style, but as a believer in Christ we have the Holy to help and guide us.

As a child scrambles to pick up fallen blocks and put them back in place. The father pushes them into position only hopefully not to fall again. However a child will knock it down all over again. The father will steady each block placed. Maybe getting some hot glue gun so less likely to fall apart again.

God begins to allow his children to question and learn about faith. He uses the Holy Spirit to cement us all together in one accord. Even gentiles are able to live a discipline life without faith but they do have Jesus.

Paul wrote to the believers. Comparing the corruption of the undiscipline gentile to the believer. Yet what he saying people that should know to be better need to first embraced or put on their faith. They walking around nude showing their humanity and not the ways of Christ but believe who Christ is. The church world is full of nudity. Not living and looking like Jesus. Gentiles that are disciplined look like Christians but are wolves in sheep clothing. They know how to dress the part but have no faith in a living God. We has Christian who ought to know better but we fall to the temptation of not being that believer in faith in action. We look nake before world as rebels of faith instead of children of God.

As a believer we are to love and be kind to one another. Being givers of compassion and hope as the same that Christ demonstrate on the earth, including forgiving people of sin of those around him. Healing the soul of his fellow man. We help build the spiritual church with God by doing all these things.

Dear Heavenly Father, help us as believers to love and to give others hope because of the love and forgiveness you give us to and to others. In Jesus precious name, Amen.

Continual Scripture Study: Romans 2:9-16 KJV
9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
10 But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:
11 For there is no respect of persons with God.
12 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;
13 (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)
16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.

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