Who I Am In Christ Devotionals

As a prisoner in the Lord, then, I urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling you have received: with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, and with diligence to preserve the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.  Ephesians 4:1-3 (ESV) He asks me to be humble, that means there IS a pathway to humility for me. In the passage, He asks me to be gentle. That means that I CAN be gentle.  Lord, please give me the grace to behave in the way you are asking. You say I can do it. I KNOW that I can't do it through a flesh-push. I can only do it by being Spirit controlled. By being filled with the Spirit. May my life as a believer be exemplified by these things. May you rule in my heart. May you give me wisdom when I feel that I have none. When I have nothing left. May I depend upon You. Lord, I ask for your grace upon today. Blessed be the name of the Lord. He asks me to be patient. That means that I can be patient. I can know that God

But as for me, my prayer is to you, O Lord . At an acceptable time, O God, in the abundance of your steadfast love answer me in your saving faithfulness.  Psalm 69:13 I get mad at the Lord sometimes. And I know this is wholly unsafe. So, I hide my anger behind my back like a schoolboy who got caught taking something out of another student’s backpack. And of course, the Lord sees all. Gently, He whispers His corrections. Working on this or that in my chaotic soul, invisibly. And sometimes, He roars like a lion, scaring the mess out of me. Which turns out to be a loving thing to do. For then, I know that he sees. There’s no question. And that is a blessing. I’m not going to lie; I have a hard time with the Lord’s timing (I repent Lord). I think, why didn’t you do this or that, then? Why did you let it get so bad? Why so much pain and hurt? And I have to remind myself, “I am not God; I serve Him.” He answers at an acceptable time. His timing. Not mine. He is the one who holds th

  Therefore I, the prisoner in the Lord, urge you to walk worthy of the calling you have received, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love. Ephesians 4:1-2 Humility I love the Lord. It is important for me, a child of God, to declare that I love Him. All that I am flows from that. And I can forget this, so I repeat it. I am His. This verse is an urging. A command even. A command to be active. To walk. What does it mean to walk? Walking is something that people do without even thinking about it if they are beyond infancy and healthy. They just get up and go. It’s regular and normal. How should I, a child of God, walk? Worthy of the calling I have received. That calling is that I obey. That I walk in the light, in the spirit. That I do things like pray and study what God wants of me. That I am kind and humble. Walk with humility. I admit, I used to dislike that word. It sounded so passive. Well, I misunderstood the word. Because, Jesus was meek (s

  God will bring this about in his own time. He is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings, and the Lord of Lords, who alone is immortal and who lives in unapproachable light, whom no one has seen or can see, to him be honor and eternal power. Amen.  1 Timothy 6:15‭-‬16 He keeps Working on Me Impatient. Rude. Temperamental. Those can all describe me. Yet, I'm a child of God. He loves me and keeps working on me. I forget sometimes that He certainly is still working. I've made the mistake of thinking that I'm over here in a corner somewhere and I'm not really on God's radar. Wrong. He loves me. When you love someone, they are always on your radar. The thing is: He brings things about in His own time. He gets to. He's God. I'm not. He alone is immortal and lives in unapproachable light. He knows everything. I am His and the sheep of His pasture, not the other way around! I've made the mistake of thinking that I know better than Him. I've quest

  The Lord your God will clear away these nations before you little by little. You may not make an end of them at once, lest the wild beasts grow too numerous for you. Deuteronomy 7:22 Little By Little I am a grateful follower of the Lord Jesus Christ. I am a child of the one-true King. I am a sheep, and He is my shepherd. And He doesn't always tell me where we're going. Nor how long it's going to take before we get there. Mostly, I have my hands full being faithful today, now. And I know for a fact that He is teaching me patience... "The Lord your God will clear away these nations before you little by little." Little by little. I want patience. And I want it now. I'm six years old in the back seat: "Are we there yet?" In the verse He reveals a little bit about His motives. If He makes an end of your enemies immediately, the wild animals will grow too numerous for me. My thoughts about who I am in Christ were skewed. Now, usually, my enemies aren'

  May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ. 2 Thessalonians 3:5 When I Act Like I am Two “I believe in Jesus. I believe He is the Son of God. I believe He died and rose again!” (Tommy Bolton) And He loves me. Why do I know this? According to the verse, the Lord directs my heart to the love of God. This is a divine work of God. I want to use the word magic, but that would be wrong. It's a miracle. Does that seem too strong a thing to say? That it's a miracle for man's heart to be directed to the love of God? The reason it's a miracle is that I naturally have the fallen heart of Adam who fell in the garden of Eden. I am haughty, angry, selfish, and rebellious when not walking in the Spirit. I want what I want when I want it. I'm two. The Steadfastness of Christ But he lovingly, miraculously directs my heart to the love of God. He's making me new. And He directs me to the steadfastness of Christ. I looked up the word: st