In what ways do you live a holy life? What mediocrities do you pray to overcome?
Seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the LORD on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare... For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart. -Jeremiah 29:7,11-13
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
A Change of Kingdoms
Excerpt from Chapter 5 of The Pursuit of Holiness by Jerry Bridges:
Many Christians have a basic desire to live a holy life, but have come to believe they simply cannot do it. They have struggled for years with particular sins or deficiencies of character. While not living in gross sin, they have more or less given up ever attaining a life of holiness and have settled down to a life of moral mediocrity with which neither they nor God are pleased. The promise of Romans 6:6-7 seems impossibly beyond them. The strong commands of Scripture to live a consistent holy life only frustrate them.
In what ways do you live a holy life? What mediocrities do you pray to overcome?
In what ways do you live a holy life? What mediocrities do you pray to overcome?
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