MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST- MARCH 16, 2010 (DEVOTIONAL)

Wednesday, March 17, 2010
MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST- MARCH 16, 2010 (DEVOTIONAL)
"The Master Will Judge"
We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ . . . —2 Corinthians 5:10
BY OSWALD CHAMBERS


Paul says that we must all, preachers and other people alike, "appear before the judgment seat of Christ." But if you will learn here and now to live under the scrutiny of Christ’s pure light (Psalm 139:23-24), your final judgment will bring you only delight in seeing the work God has done in you. Live constantly reminding yourself of the judgment seat of Christ, and walk in the knowledge of the holiness He has given you.

Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are.
(Forgiveness is what Christ has given- to deny it for yourself or someone else causes division, hardness, and bitterness...Put it on the cross. This doesn't mean that you need to tell that person you forgive them but to let it go to the cross/In what God/Jesus has already done. Let God take it).
One carnal judgment of another person only serves the purposes of hell in you. Bring it immediately into the light and confess, "Oh, Lord, I have been guilty there." If you don’t, your heart will become hardened through and through. One of the penalties of sin is our acceptance of it. It is not only God who punishes for sin, but sin establishes itself in the sinner and takes its toll. No struggling or praying will enable you to stop doing certain things, and the penalty of sin is that you gradually get used to it, until you finally come to the place where you no longer even realize that it is sin. No power, except the power that comes from being filled with the Holy Spirit, can change or prevent the inherent consequences of sin.

(Romans 7:17-19 (New Living Translation)
17 So I (Paul writing to the church/body of believers in Rome) am not the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it.

18 And I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. I want to do what is right, but I can’t. 19 I want to do what is good, but I don’t. I don’t want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway.

(When we ask Him into our lives- He is all that is good in us... Jesus in us sets us free from sin b/c He paid for it all on the cross. We choose to take that forgiveness and have God grow our faith/heal our souls/be our Father and our Lord)

Romans 6:6
We know that our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in our lives. We are no longer slaves to sin.

"If we walk in the light as He is in the light. . ." ( 1 John 1:7 ). For many of us, walking in the light means walking according to the standard we have set up for another person. The deadliest attitude of the Pharisees that we exhibit today is not hypocrisy but that which comes from unconsciously living a lie.

Galatians 5:1
[ Christ Has Set Us Free ] For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

David Crowder Band's "Thank You" (found on a media player to the right-on the web page)
http://www.last.fm/music/David+Crowder+Band/_/Thank+You+for+Hearing+Me

Love,
Mer

PS
Nothing tops God's Word :)... A Brother and Sister in Christ who share what God has taught them- have written 2 books filled with scripture that really help us glean what He has shown them (via His Word) about sin, truth, and freedom from sin and legalism. I need to read these again- I highly recommend them :)!!!


"The Battlefield of the Mind"
By Joyce Meyer


"The Bondage Breaker"
by Neil T. Anderson