SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 5/14/2017
8:02 PM
My Worship Time Focus: “The Name of
Christ”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Colossians
3:17
Message of the
verses: “17 Whatever you do in word
or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God
the Father.”
In our last SD we looked at what Dr. Warren Wiersbe wrote
concerning this seventeenth verse of Colossians, and I promised to look at some
of the things that John MacArthur had to say about this verse in our Spiritual
Diary for today.
If you are looking for a simple basic rule of thumb for
how to live the Christian life what you can do is to do everything, word, deed,
in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. If
we do this then we will be acting in a consistent way with who He is and also
what He wants. Sounds easy, but the
problem is that we have an enemy, or perhaps three of them, the world the
flesh, and the devil, that although they have been defeated at the cross of
Christ they are still active and desire to work against us and so we must know
our enemy’s tactics and better yet we must know how to rely on the Lord to
defeat them when they come calling.
Ephesians 6:10ff. is a good place to begin.
We may have mentioned 1 Corinthians 10:31 but worth
mentioning again as it has similar things to say with our verse in
Colossians: “Whether, then, you eat or
drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. MacArthur adds “Again, Paul reminds that it
is always to be done without reluctance or despair or legalistic duty, but with
‘giving thanks through Him to God the Father.’”
We have been talking about putting on the new lifestyle
and to do this is to put on the Lord Jesus Christ “Put on the Lord Jesus
Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts” (Romans
13:14).”
5/14/2017 8:34 PM
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