Saturday, July 24, 2021

Morning Manna by Rufus Parker - 24 July 2021

 

Virtue

 

And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.(2 Peter 1:5-8)

 

Today’s Morsel:  What is faith without virtue?  What is the use of faith in God if we are not going to live a morally good and righteous lifestyle?  If our behavior is not showing a higher moral standard of godliness what is the use?  If we say that we have faith in God, then our conduct and character must reflect that belief. All sinners know that a Christian lifestyle is to be different from theirs. In all of Paul’s letters to the churches,  he is sounding an alarm. You cannot be a Christian and a sinner at the same time.  You cannot serve God and Satan simultaneously.  Nor can you have God in your life and a devil at the same time.   We must develop virtue in our lives so that we do not come short in our knowledge of Christ and fall.

 

Sing: Deeper! Deeper!  In the Love of Jesus, daily let me go.  Higher, higher, in the school of wisdom, more of grace to know.

 

Thought For Today:   You are going to need courage and fortitude, to enable you to profess the faith before men in these times of persecution.

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