Thursday, August 6, 2015

We Lift our Hearts 8/6/15

Day 215 - Reading the New Testament in one year.


Romans 8:22-39 (amplified Bible)

 22 We know that the whole creation [of irrational creatures] has been moaning together in the pains of labor until now.
23 And not only the creation, but we ourselves too, who have and enjoy the firstfruits of the [Holy] Spirit [a foretaste of the blissful things to come] groan inwardly as we wait for the redemption of our bodies [from sensuality and the grave, which will reveal] our adoption (our manifestation as God’s sons).
24 For in [this] hope we were saved. But hope [the object of] which is seen is not hope. For how can one hope for what he already sees?
25 But if we hope for what is still unseen by us, we wait for it with patience and composure.
26 So too the [Holy] Spirit comes to our aid and bears us up in our weakness; for we do not know what prayer to offer nor how to offer it worthily as we ought, but the Spirit Himself goes to meet our supplication and pleads in our behalf with unspeakable yearnings and groanings too deep for utterance.
27 And He Who searches the hearts of men knows what is in the mind of the [Holy] Spirit [what His intent is], because the Spirit intercedes and pleads [before God] in behalf of the saints according to and in harmony with God’s will.
28 We are assured and know that [[a]God being a partner in their labor] all things work together and are [fitting into a plan] for good to and for those who love God and are called according to [His] design and purpose.
29 For those whom He foreknew [of whom He was [b]aware and [c]loved beforehand], He also destined from the beginning [foreordaining them] to be molded into the image of His Son [and share inwardly His likeness], that He might become the firstborn among many brethren.
30 And those whom He thus foreordained, He also called; and those whom He called, He also justified (acquitted, made righteous, putting them into right standing with Himself). And those whom He justified, He also glorified [raising them to a heavenly dignity and condition or state of being].
31 What then shall we say to [all] this? If God is for us, who [can be] against us? [Who can be our foe, if God is on our side?]
32 He who did not withhold or spare [even] His own Son but gave Him up for us all, will He not also with Him freely and graciously give us all [other] things?
33 Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect [when it is] God Who justifies [that is, Who puts us in right relation to Himself? Who shall come forward and accuse or impeach those whom God has chosen? Will God, Who acquits us?]
34 Who is there to condemn [us]? Will Christ Jesus (the Messiah), Who died, or rather Who was raised from the dead, Who is at the right hand of God actually pleading as He intercedes for us?
35 Who shall ever separate us from Christ’s love? Shall suffering and affliction and tribulation? Or calamity and distress? Or persecution or hunger or destitution or peril or sword?
36 Even as it is written, For Thy sake we are put to death all the day long; we are regarded and counted as sheep for the slaughter.
37 Yet amid all these things we are more than conquerors [d]and gain a surpassing victory through Him Who loved us.
38 For I am persuaded beyond doubt (am sure) that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities, nor things [e]impending and threatening nor things to come, nor powers,
39 Nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Supplied Life Devotional by Bill Freeman

August 6th
Proper Understanding

"And they said to one another, Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?" Luke 24:32

All proper human understanding has Christ as the focus and centrality (Col. 1:16- 17); otherwise, the word "understanding" is only a borrowed term. According to God's creation and His Word, the only genuine, proper understanding is to understand everything in Christ, from Christ, through Christ, and unto Christ. Without this, you have no understanding. You do not understand your life. You do not understand anything properly. Unless you see Christ, you only have the husk of an understanding. He is the kernel of all understanding. From God's point of view, to understand means to enter into His thoughts about everything-- about creation and His purpose. So for us as human beings, the proper understanding is to see Christ as all and in all. That is understanding. This comes from having our minds renewed.

There is only one way to study the Scriptures, and that is to come to the Scriptures to see Christ. If you come to the Scriptures to study the Bible, to simply get Bible knowledge, you do not see and you do not understand the Scriptures. You may have Bible knowledge, but what links everything together? In Luke 24:27 the Lord opened the Word from Genesis through Malachi, clearly showing the disciples the things concerning Himself-- that He was the focus of all the Scriptures. After the disciples 'eyes were opened, they said to one another, "Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?" A burning heart comes when we can take the Bible and talk about Christ and apply Christ. It is the understanding of the Bible with Christ as the focus that causes our heart to burn

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