Streamline

July 12, 2016

Devotions:

      “Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.”  Hebrews‬ ‭12:1-2‬ ‭KJV‬‬

        We need to become streamlined for the Gospel.  The main purpose for our existance on earth is not for our comfort but to propagate the Gospel.  When the Gospel becomes our focus and seeing the Gospel reproduced in others, God will take care of our needs. Our true comfort comes from knowing that we are doing God's will in taking the Gospel to every person we contact.  This first comes as we live in light of the Gospel ourselves and spend time daily acting on the rightesouness God has imparted to us by spending time fellowshipping with Him. 

        “In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.”  ‭John‬ ‭1:4-5‬ ‭KJV‬‬

        The witness of the life of God in us is the unconscious witness that we carry.  If we are not walking in that life, the witness is still there but diminished by our own efforts to be pleasing to God rather than accepting the work of Jesus on our behalf. 

        Secondly as we walk in that life and fellowship with our Father and He touches our lives and meet our needs we freely testify of His goodness in our lives to anyone who shows the least interest, at the drop of a hat. 

      Third we ask, What is profitable for the Gospel and what is a hinderence to my task? It is only by the power of the Spirit that I am able to lay aside the sins and weights that would entangle us. It is only by coming to a greater and greater revelation of who we are in Christ that liberates us and this not by our works but by our responding to the truth as revealed by the Holy Spirit.

      Our focus is not on our trying to change ourselves but on Jesus who will transform us by His resurrection power.