1 John 1:7
If we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.
What of Today’s Verse…
As we seek to please God and trust his grace, more grace is supplied. While Jesus’ death was "once for all," its cleansing power goes on and on since our hearts are tuned to his grace.
Let us Pray:
Loving Father, thank you for the gift of Jesus and the cleansing his death brings me. Help me today to live a more dedicated that life. Thank you for the assurance that as I seek your will and live your life you are also forgiving me of my sins and cleansing me and making me new. Through Jesus I offer this thanks. Amen.
Words of Wisdom
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN ALONE WITH GOD?
"When they were alone, He expounded all things to His disciples." Mark 4:34
Our Solitude with Him. Jesus does not take us alone and expound things to us all the time; He expounds things to us as we can understand them. Other lives are parables. God is making us spell out our own souls. It is slow work, so slow that it takes God all time and eternity to make a man and woman after His own purpose. The only way we can be of use to God is to let Him take us through the crooks and crannies of our own characters. It is astounding how ignorant we are about ourselves! We do not know envy when we see it, or laziness, or pride. Jesus reveals to us all that this body has been harbouring before His grace began to work. How many of us have learned to look in with courage?
We have to get rid of the idea that we understand ourselves; it is the last conceit to go. The only One Who understands us is our Lord God. The greatest curse in spiritual life is the conceit. If we have ever had a glimpse of what we are like in the sight of God, we shall never say – "Oh, I am so unworthy," because we shall know we are, beyond the possibility of stating it. Since we are not quite sure that we are unworthy, God will keep narrowing us in until He gets us alone. Wherever there is any element of pride or of conceit, Jesus cannot expound a thing. He will take us through the disappointment of a wounded pride of intellect, through disappointment of heart. He will reveal inordinate affection things which we never thought He would have to get us alone. We listen to many things in classes, but they are not expositions to us yet. They will be when God gets us alone over them.
