While It is Called Today

 

Each week when I come to you, speaking about the Lord Jesus, and preaching to you the gospel;  I am always reminding us all of how we are to keep the gospel in memory; to trust in it, to stand in it. That gospel that is preached to you is defined in 1 Corinthians 15: 3 - 4.

3: How that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;

4: And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures.

Well, keeping it in memory for every aspect of our lives is work! Trusting in the gospel and nothing else is work!

As I have been working through things in my own life these last few weeks, the Lord began ministering to me some scriptures and reminding me of some things from years ago.

There was a time a few years back when I was speaking to a person, and as I listened to what they had to say, they soon began ministering faith to my heart. As we drove home and I considered the day and some of what I had spoken, I was not happy. I had not heard faith out of my mouth, I had not heard things out of my heart that would benefit anyone. I wasn’t condemned, but rather encouraged. Encouraged because God was ministering to me the verse out of Ephesians.

Ephesians 4:29

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying ( build up, instruct ) that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

The Psalm 50: 22 - 23 states;

22: Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.

You know when we forget God, when we get our eyes on everything else, it is the most miserable place. It can feel like there is none to help, none to deliver us; you can feel as if everything is sinking fast.

But Look at 23:

Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.

Part of ordering our conversation aright will be calling on the name of Jesus! Not murmuring and complaining, but putting our faith in that name, Jesus. Part of ordering our conversation aright will be preaching to ourselves the gospel, and keeping our conversation upright on the things of God.

Just appreciated being reminded of some of the things the Lord has encouraged me with, and am continuing to encourage myself in the things of the Lord.  

Hebrews 3:13 tells us to exhort one another daily, while it is called to day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.