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Friday, July 26, 2013

Flying with Thursday's Word part 2 on a Friday

Thursday's Word

It is Satan, with his lies and deception, that is able to mislead Christians into believing that the trials of life are something strange and not to be experienced by a believer. The pressures of life only reveal the validity of what we say we believe. If when these pressures arrive in our life and we are left without the ability to rest it may be due to the fact that we are trying to live the Christian life in the energy of our own flesh. “To this end I labor, struggling with all his energy, which so powerfully works in me (Col. 1:29).” We cannot live the Christian life without Christ!  Jesus Christ was the only one that ever did live it and now, through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, wants to live His life through us. God wants us to rest and has promised us that rest in Christ. He did for us what we could not do for ourselves. We rest because we know that God will use these troubles, struggles, and circumstances for our good.
We rest from trying to gain or maintain our right-standing before God through our own efforts. God has blessed us with every spiritual blessing (Ephesians 1:3). It is this truth that we are reminded of every time life gets us down - We Look Up!  So while the devil may try and use our circumstances to rob us of the joy of our salvation, we can rest assured that what we experience is not indicative of who we are in God’s sight and what we have in His Son.
Blessed quietness, holy quietness, What assurance in my soul! On the stormy sea He speaks peace to me. How the billows cease to roll.
May God continue to bless you is my prayer.

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