Prayer – Lord, I feel like I’m accountable to You. I know that one day You’ll ask me about what I’ve done with my life—and to explain how I’ve served You. At that point no doubt—I’ll wish I’d done more. That’s motivation for me now—step up and do what You expect me to do…not shrink back and say, “I’ll get around to it someday.” You expect more of those who are given much…and life here is so abundant that there are times I am overwhelmed! Please give me wisdom, Lord, to apply Your word to my life—and to live up to Your expectations. You are an awesome God—such a great example and definitely worthy of praise. Make me that new creation in You.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new
creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. 2
Corinthians 5:17 NKJV
Meditate. Memorize.
Are you memorizing…or trying to memorize a verse every week…or
at least one passage a month? This is a good verse to add to your memory repertoire.
It is actually on a list of Inspirational Bible Verses to Start the Week and
Top 52 Bible Verses for Kids, Children, Youth, Teens & Adults. That about
covers any and every one who could or should be memorizing scripture. This
particular verse was on my list when I took a Navigator’s Bible Study forty
years ago—so it is somewhere in my memory. The study included the Topical
Memory System with just that—memory verses on little cards based on specific
topics related to Christian living. Good system and in our study each person
had someone to whom they were accountable. That was the key to that part of the
program. Accountability! You only hold those accountable that you care about—so
that invested us in each other’s lives.
Are you accountable to Jesus Christ? Are you accountable to
anyone else…or is someone accountable to you? As the verse tells us, if we are
in Christ…believing in Him…then we are new creatures. The prophet Ezekiel declared
God’s word to the Israelites:
I will give you a
new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out
of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put My Spirit within you
and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do
them. Ezekiel 36:26-27 NKJV
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This I say,
therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest
of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind, having their understanding
darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that
is in them, because of the blindness of their heart; who, being past feeling,
have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with
greediness. But you have not so learned Christ, if indeed you have heard Him
and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: that you put off,
concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to
the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and that you
put on the new man which was created according to God, in true
righteousness and holiness. Ephesians 4:17-24 NKJV (Underlined for
emphasis.)
Do have a renewed mind…a new heart?
Verse of Salvation ~ For we ourselves were also once
foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in
malice and envy, hateful and hating one another. But when the kindness and the
love of God our Savior toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which
we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the
washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on
us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, that having been justified by
His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life. Titus
3:3-7 NKJV (Underlined for emphasis.)
Memory verse of the week: 2 Corinthians 5:17 NKJV
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