A Daily Devotional – James, the Epistle – Personal Meditation
Comment: Position and performance, both
Character traits are high priorities for most of us in our daily life. Openly we
may argue that this is not true, for example; you would not dare to let it be
known that you pick your nose, but do you pick your nose? Now I know that is a
bit bizarre, but my intention is to focus on Godliness and not what we do humanly.
“Now godliness, with contentment is great gain, for we brought nothing into
this world and it is certain, we can carry nothing out” – 1 Timothy 6:6-7.
Devotional: None
would deny, we have been given a great gift of grace from God. Everlasting Life with God, through Jesus the
Christ/Messiah supersedes everything we would consider precious in this
human life.
Everlasting Life includes the following spiritual blessings; we are
chosen, holy, blameless, adopted, accepted and forgiven; by Grace through faith
in the ‘redemption work’ of Jesus/Messiah. Also through Jesus/Messiah we have
been given wisdom and understanding, we have a ‘holy inheritance’.
Our position is no longer earthly, or tied to the ways
of the natural mindedness of the unsaved. Therefore, our performance should
read. (Position) “If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which
are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. (Performance) Set
your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. For you died, and your
life is hidden with Christ in God – Colossians 3:1-3.
James 1:17-18 – Every good gift and every perfect gift
is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is NO
variation or shadow of turning. Of His own will He brought us forth by the word
of truth, that we might be the kind of first fruits of His creatures.
These firstfruit gifts from God ought to be what the
unbeliever sees in us. But what about it, does our human performance override
our spiritual position? Often, or to many times it does and the unbelieving
receives the wrong message.
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