Here are a few passages I am in or currently going back to in these days. The Lord is showing more and more of His Word when I commit my heart to learning. At times I am not apt to listen; it is at such silent times without to the Word when I feel most discouraged.
- Jeremiah 5:26-31
- Romans 8
- 1 & 2 Corinthians
- 2 Timothy
- 1 John
- James
- Hebrews
The passage in Jeremiah is very provoking to me, as the words give a similar feeling between the Isaelites and the Christians, the very ones who are in the church but also in the world, saved but growing fat from the filth of the world. The other Bible passages are spurring me on to greater awareness of the strength which was given to me by the Spirit (2 Timothy 1:7). Striving now and then myself, the ideologies of wealth, pleasure, the "I, Me, Mine" concept, some basic tenaments of selfishness are my foes. All Christians are contenders. BUT...
"No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier" (2 Timothy 2: 4).
We don't straddle the fence or fall back into a cove of isolation, but we must now be wearing out the tread on our boots in whimsy. Seek Him first!
