Ekgim daily devotion. Greetings of peace to you beloved family of God.
📖Proverbs 4:25 Let your eyes look straight ahead; fix your gaze directly before you.📖
✅Yesturday we shared on focusing “UP” so today we shall share on focusing “IN”
Focusing IN means, examine your spiritual life, your inner man if you are still firm in your faith? ( 2 Corinthians 13:5 “Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test! ESV)
✅While it is much easier to see the sin and faults of others, Paul exhorted the church at Corinth to examine themselves, whether they be in the faith; and prove themselves. The same applies to us, the scripture is telling us to look not at the lives of others but examine our own lives and faith. Search our hearts and souls diligently (Psalms 77:6) and prove our own experience with God.
✅We as human are prone to error and to get off balance if we do not take time for self-examination. Just because someone has served the Lord or walked with the lord for years does not guarantee that he/she is today living a pleasing life to God. “Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall” (1 Corinthians 10:12).
✅“Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts” (Proverbs 21:2). It is much easier for a person to assume he/she is correct and others are wrong than to sincerely examine his/her own life. God is in the business of examining not only the conduct, but the very heart of man. Hence, it is wise to honestly scrutinize our own lives that we may be what God desires and not what the flesh has accepted as permissible. Whatever we sow in this life we will reap in eternity. Be not deceived, we can not fool God, for He knows all things (Galatians 6:7-8).
The Scripture teaches clearly in 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 that the unrighteous will not gain Heaven. All fornicators, adulterers, homosexuals, thieves, drunkards, liars etc. will suffer in eternity unless they turn to God and live righteously. The world is full of professing Christians who are committing these sins. Their end is assured unless they repent. There is a generation that is pure in its own eyes, and yet is not washed from its filthiness (Proverbs 30:12).
✅ King David set an example for us in his prayer on multiple occasions. “Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts” (Psalms 139:23-24). When David was confronted with his sin by the prophet Nathan, he acknowledged his sin and sought for forgiveness. Let us open our hearts for God to search and show us anything that is unlike Christ. It might be a weakness which is not even sin that is hindering you spiritually. Examine yourself and find victory in confession and change in Jesus Name. Amen🙏🙏🙏
By Apostle Gift Sira.
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