Good Morning Monday...
Father thank You for this NEW day. Thank You for this day’s BREATH that we BREATHE. Help us, guide us, fill us with Your Light, and lead us to be MORE like Your Son YESHUA, JESUS CHRIST. In Yeshua, Jesus Christ Name we pray. Amen! A Big Thank You to our late Brother, John Ritenbaugh, and berean.org for today’s devotion. “Now The Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received The Message with great eagerness and examined The Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true.” Acts 17:11 - A Berean Breakdown: Reinventing Abraham - 2 Corinthians 5:14-17 “For The Love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one died for all; as a result all died. And he died for all, in order that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for The One who died for them and was raised. So then, from now on we know no one from a human point of view, if indeed we have known Christ from a human point of view, but now we know Him this way no longer. Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold, new things have come.” 2 Corinthians 5:14-17 NKJV Paul describes what happened to Abraham at his calling and must happen to us. Abraham's mind—and therefore his life—was so arrested and redirected by God's revelation of Himself that he responded dramatically, despite the realization that he could no longer live as he had for 70 years. He had to make changes, and some of them would be considerable and costly. He could no longer live completely for himself. He no longer perceived people as he had all his life. He especially could no longer perceive his new God and Savior as He formerly had. A new man was being created from within, so he had to make a clean and permanent break from his old life. His life now had a new Object toward which he must walk. His life had a new direction, a new relationship, new desires, and new requirements to fulfill. We must never forget that Abraham was a special case; he is the prototype who set a vivid, overall example for all his spiritual children to follow to some degree. There were bumps along the way; at times, he fell short of the ideal. Yet, on the whole, he did nothing less than set a superb example for all of us. “Don’t be conformed to this world, but BE TRANSFORMED by the RENEWING of YOUR MIND, so that you may PROVE WHAT IS GOOD, well-pleasing, and perfect will of GOD.”Romans 12:2
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