OzThoughts Tuesday 21st October 2008

OzThoughts Tuesday 21st October 2008

In the early verses of Chapter 12 of Romans Paul tells us how different our lives as Christians are or alt least should be. Paul has outlined in the early Chapters we are all sinners but Jesus through the cross has paid the penalty for us and set us free.

He says we are what we are in God’s sight because of God’s love for us and warns us, as we considered yesterday, not to live as the world wants us to. He says when we live as God wants then our life will prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

It is clear that we may know what the good and acceptable and perfect will of God is, but you can’t prove it in your life apart from the transforming work of the Holy Spirit.

So it is through that constant communion with the Holy Spirit that our life comes into line with what God requires of us. Brother Lawrence actually referred to that constant communion as “Practicing the Presence of God.” He stated he felt as close to god doing the chores of the kitchen, and the garden and in the marketplace as he did in the holiest moment of the Lord’s Supper. That’s the type of communion God makes himself available to us for.

PRAYER:

Heavenly Father, thank you for your love and your plan for my life. May I know your constant presence through your Holy Spirit with me in everything I do. Amen.

Spirit of eternal love
Guide me, or I blindly rove;
Set my heart on things above,
Draw me after thee.
Earthly things are paltry show,
Phantom charms, they come and go;
Give me constantly to know
Fellowship with thee.

Chorus
Fellowship with thee,
Fellowship with thee,
Give me constantly to know
Fellowship with thee.

Come, O Spirit, take control
Where the fires of passion roll;
Let the yearnings of my soul
Center all in thee.
Call into thy fold of peace
Thoughts that seek forbidden ways;
Calm and order all my days,
Hide my life in thee.

Thus supported, even I,
Knowing thee forever nigh,
Shall attain that deepest joy,
Living unto thee.
No distracting thoughts within,
No surviving hidden sin,
Thus shall Heaven indeed begin
Here and now in me.
Author: Albert Orsborn (1886-1967)
The Salvation Army Song Book: Song Number: 630

Romans 12 ( The Message)

Place Your Life Before God

1 So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life--your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life--and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him.
2 Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.
3 I'm speaking to you out of deep gratitude for all that God has given me, and especially as I have responsibilities in relation to you. Living then, as every one of you does, in pure grace, it's important that you not misinterpret yourselves as people who are bringing this goodness to God. No, God brings it all to you. The only accurate way to understand ourselves is by what God is and by what he does for us, not by what we are and what we do for him.
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