12-29-2018, 08:41 PM
THE LIVING WATER
DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE
Saturday, December 29, 2018
TOPIC: THE AGEING WORLD
Read: 1 John 2:12-17
[12]I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.[13]I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father.[14]I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.[15]Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.[16]For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.[17]And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
MEMORISE: And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever (1 John 2:17).
EXPOSITION
It is widely believed that when man is becoming advanced in age, he tends to be growing younger in reasoning. What an irony! That best describes succinctly the world we live in. The world, as documented by the archaeologists, had translated from various ages like wood, iron, brass, computer, till the present jet age. The world’s oldest fashions of yesteryears are fast becoming in vogue again. They are merely being recycled and we think they are new innovations.
Why then the mad rush and rat race to meet with the ageing and declining world? Heaven-consciou
s ones would not be bothered to be tagged ‘the laggards’ commonly called ‘old school’ when we refuse to conform to the world’s fads and fashions (Rom. 12:2-3). The social media, entertainment industry and technological breakthroughs of the present age have wrecked more havoc than benefits, especially on the youth.
As a child of God in this present age, you must go in His direction and not as the world dictates. We have the unchanging God, the Bible and God’s holy standard, although, we live in changing world! Let everything turn upside down, the standards and foundations of God are solidly unaffected. If you are calling and are called by God’s name, you cannot afford to blend with the ills, corruptions, practices, decadences, seductions and irregularities of the declining and ageing world (Jer. 10:1; 1 Tim. 4:12; 2 Tim. 2:19). The ageing world will soon disappear, but if you do God’s will, you will live forever.
PRAYER POINTS
1. Lord Jesus, I receive the grace to stand out for you in this ageing world, in Jesus’ name.
2. Lord, help me to be more heaven-conscious than mundane in all my dealings, all the days o my life.
3. Lord, purge out every element of worldliness pervading churches today in the name of civilization, in Jesus’ name.
EXTRA READING FOR TODAY: Malachi 4
Author: CAC WORLDWIDE
Remain Blessed!
DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE
Saturday, December 29, 2018
TOPIC: THE AGEING WORLD
Read: 1 John 2:12-17
[12]I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.[13]I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father.[14]I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.[15]Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.[16]For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.[17]And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
MEMORISE: And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever (1 John 2:17).
EXPOSITION
It is widely believed that when man is becoming advanced in age, he tends to be growing younger in reasoning. What an irony! That best describes succinctly the world we live in. The world, as documented by the archaeologists, had translated from various ages like wood, iron, brass, computer, till the present jet age. The world’s oldest fashions of yesteryears are fast becoming in vogue again. They are merely being recycled and we think they are new innovations.
Why then the mad rush and rat race to meet with the ageing and declining world? Heaven-consciou
s ones would not be bothered to be tagged ‘the laggards’ commonly called ‘old school’ when we refuse to conform to the world’s fads and fashions (Rom. 12:2-3). The social media, entertainment industry and technological breakthroughs of the present age have wrecked more havoc than benefits, especially on the youth.
As a child of God in this present age, you must go in His direction and not as the world dictates. We have the unchanging God, the Bible and God’s holy standard, although, we live in changing world! Let everything turn upside down, the standards and foundations of God are solidly unaffected. If you are calling and are called by God’s name, you cannot afford to blend with the ills, corruptions, practices, decadences, seductions and irregularities of the declining and ageing world (Jer. 10:1; 1 Tim. 4:12; 2 Tim. 2:19). The ageing world will soon disappear, but if you do God’s will, you will live forever.
PRAYER POINTS
1. Lord Jesus, I receive the grace to stand out for you in this ageing world, in Jesus’ name.
2. Lord, help me to be more heaven-conscious than mundane in all my dealings, all the days o my life.
3. Lord, purge out every element of worldliness pervading churches today in the name of civilization, in Jesus’ name.
EXTRA READING FOR TODAY: Malachi 4
Author: CAC WORLDWIDE
Remain Blessed!