S: 1 Thessalonians 2:4 NLT "For we speak as messengers approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News. Our purpose is to please God, not people. He alone examines the motives of our hearts."
O: Paul was speaking of being given a mission from God and how through trials in Philippi he had been approved to take the Good News to the church in Thessalonica. His motives were to please the one who gave him this message. If it were to please people he would would have stopped long ago.
A/P: Whom am I trying to please? God or man? Every action is based on a motive of pleasing one or the other. Some of my actions will be pleasing to both, man and God, however my motive is to please one or the other. Jesus may my sole motive be to please you today.
S: 2 Peter 3:11 (AMP) 11 Since all these things are thus in the process of being dissolved, what kind of person ought [each of] you to be [in the meanwhile] in consecrated and holy behavior and devout and godly qualities, O: 1) Peter spelled out the future of the old earth -- destruction by fire. 2) But he states that our reaction ... our behavior, she be more consecration, more Godliness(every attribute of God that we can grow in: love, peace, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control, purity, etc. A: When I think the state of the U.S. is easy to start whining about how much worse it is now (sinfulness, economic situation, political, etc.) But Peter's emphasis is that we should be spurred to be more Godly. I want to check my self when I hear, or say things about the U.S. to change my talk to the latter. P: Lord, I ask you to remold my mind, so that my thoughts and talk result in greater consecration, purity, etc, not just talking about the sorry state of the U.S. (and world). Lord, I cannot do this without your help. I invite you to come into my life, and clean our this closet of my life. In Jesus name. Amen
S: 1 Thessalonians 2:4 NLT "For we speak as messengers approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News. Our purpose is to please God, not people. He alone examines the motives of our hearts."
ReplyDeleteO: Paul was speaking of being given a mission from God and how through trials in Philippi he had been approved to take the Good News to the church in Thessalonica. His motives were to please the one who gave him this message. If it were to please people he would would have stopped long ago.
A/P: Whom am I trying to please? God or man? Every action is based on a motive of pleasing one or the other. Some of my actions will be pleasing to both, man and God, however my motive is to please one or the other. Jesus may my sole motive be to please you today.
S: 2 Peter 3:11 (AMP)
ReplyDelete11 Since all these things are thus in the process of being dissolved, what kind of person ought [each of] you to be [in the meanwhile] in consecrated and holy behavior and devout and godly qualities,
O: 1) Peter spelled out the future of the old earth -- destruction by fire. 2) But he states that our reaction ... our behavior, she be more consecration, more Godliness(every attribute of God that we can grow in: love, peace, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control, purity, etc.
A: When I think the state of the U.S. is easy to start whining about how much worse it is now (sinfulness, economic situation, political, etc.) But Peter's emphasis is that we should be spurred to be more Godly. I want to check my self when I hear, or say things about the U.S. to change my talk to the latter.
P: Lord, I ask you to remold my mind, so that my thoughts and talk result in greater consecration, purity, etc, not just talking about the sorry state of the U.S. (and world). Lord, I cannot do this without your help. I invite you to come into my life, and clean our this closet of my life. In Jesus name. Amen