Tuesday Reading: Titus 3:1-3
Key Verse: Titus 3:3
3 For we ourselves also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, slaving for various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.
Devotion:
How many times have you looked at someone and wondered how or why they do the bad things that they do? Take a silent look at what sort of things that you have got up to in the past, not the things that you do now, but things that you have done that you are not proud of. I am sure that we all have our skeletons in the cupboard. We can also, perhaps, look at some of the things we still do or the things that we think of doing – both are not received well in the sight of God, and yet we still do them.
If we are honest we will admit to the fact that all sins are equal in God’s eyes because they are either sins or not. No matter how small the sin, God will not accept sin from us. Thank goodness for His grace and favour towards us in that while we are yet sinners, Christ died for us! It’s not the fact that we were once sinners and that we do not sin now, it’s the fact that while we are sinners, Christ died for us. That is why Jesus came to live and die amongst us, so that we may have a way of being forgiven for the things that we insist on continuing to do! He did not come to take our sins away from us so that we would no longer sin; He came to take on the punishment for our sins, that same punishment that we deserve because of what we do.
If we want to be able to help Him in allowing people to see this truth, we must not be the ones going round and speaking evil of others, fighting with yet more and causing havoc to try and rid the world of sin... Christ has already paid the price for that sin! If we want to help then we must be the ones that show meekness and uphold good works. If we are able to encourage just one more person to see that Christ is the one that allows us to be happy in His name, then we have done our work!
Points to Ponder:
Do you blame others for what they do wrong?
Are you doing things right in front of God?
