TRUE LAMP

Solid Rock Devotional
11th January, 2018

TRUE LAMP

‘Your  word  is  a  lamp  for  my  feet,  a  light  on   my path.’  Psalm 119:105

When we see Scripture as a self-help  manual for living  our  lives  well,  a  handbook  on  psychology, or  a  manual  on  fixing  problems,  the  focus  is  on us,  instead  of  God.  We have active  responsibility of  course,  but  our  responsibility  is  our  ‘response to  His  ability’.  The  initiator  and  enabler  of  our lives  is  God.

The  Gospel  is  firstly  about  being reconciled  to  God,  in  order  that  He  becomes  the source of our strength. Paul  writes,  ‘It  is  because  of  him  (God)  that  you  are  in  Christ Jesus,  who  has  become  for  us  wisdom  from  God   that  is,  our righteousness,  holiness  and  redemption.

Therefore,  as  it  is  written: ‘Let  the  one  who  boasts  boast  in  the  Lord’  (1  Corinthians  1:30-31). He has not given us a manual for do-it-yourself  improvement,  but He has  given  us  Himself  to  be  our  redemption  and  righteousness. *Therefore  we  read  the  Scripture  that  we  might  get  to  know Christ, and  as  we get to know Christ we increasingly  relate  everything  to His  sufficiency,  not  our  own* .  This  does  not  leave  us  passive,  but active in our response to His presence and agenda in our lives.
He has given us Himself (Word) as our guiding lamp.

Unless we take the Scriptures as the source of our spiritual sustenance,  we will wallow around in shallow  and stale waters.

PRAYER: Teach me thy ways oh God and let thy word guide my path in Jesus mighty name....Amen.

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN: Matthew 9:1-17

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