Daily Wisdom

 Eph 5:20  "Giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ."

Negativity is a social cancer: it's difficult to contain and it rots the spirit of man. However, the real danger is that the flesh is so easily influenced by it. That part causes the contagious infection. It's passed on and on until some brave soul enlightens an infected spirit with the hope and promise in Jesus; that brave soul refuses to bite the apple and let the apple eat him. That spirit who refuses to accept doubt and fear is able to amputate it in another through the strength of God's love.  In other words, their hope in Jesus becomes more valued than the lie of negativity is believed to be true.

There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of a spirit that has hope... HSAY

Daily Wisdom

 Rom 15:13  “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.” 

The human spirit longs for hope knowing one’s own limitation for all of life’s matters. This is the Father’s hope. Hope is magical, Hope is a gift, like a raft we cling to in the midst of a storm. Hope by nature is independent of logic. Hope is power outside of the facts; Hope is not rational. Yet who needs rationality when God is on our side? The capacity of hope is the most powerful fact in our daily life. The only way we’re going to reach places we’ve never been, is if we trust God’s direction to do things we’ve never done. God will fight our battles; we just need to dwell in His promised hope. Without hope in the Father, what do we have to hold too. 

Hope is the belief that the promise will be fulfilled… HSAY 

Daily Wisdom

 Eph 1:5  “Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will.”

We neglect the gospel when we neglect our adoption and think that we're just a hired servant. The Father doesn't let us come to him on those terms. We'll either come as His adoptive children or we will stay with the swine. He won't let us earn anything from Him because there will be no boasting in His presence. It will either be that Jesus and His glorious gospel has the preeminence or we will go it alone. It requires only our faith in the gospel to foster a personal significant relationship with the Father, every choice we make either elevates human life or heavenly hope in the Father.

Spiritual adoption is the excellency and apex of God’s salvation, not our doing… HSAY

Daily Wisdom

 Col 3:13 “Bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.”

Forgiveness is restoration. If we say we forgive but refuse to extend trust, we haven't really forgiven. We are asking the person to prove themselves to us in order to be worthy of our full forgiveness. We're making them work for our grace, which is not the model Christ exemplified. Jesus never requires us to earn back His grace, nor His trust. Remember it was Jesus’ sacrificial act that forgave us and offered us restoration with Him. When we choose to make excuses not to forgive and sacrifice for others well-being, restoration, and growth – we’re spurning the very identity Jesus died to provide. I’m eternally dead without God’s grace; who am I to manage it.

Being a Christian means forgiving the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in me… HSAY 

Daily Wisdom

 Jms 1:22 “But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.”

I can only imagine how joyful life would be if I could stay so grounded in my faith that I would never waver from a positive outlook/attitude. Yet, what is it about the expectations, plans, or desires that hold such sway over us at times? It’s as if we've written a script for our life that runs about a month ahead of actual life; if reality varies from what we've created in our mind, we then tend to disengage from the Father’s promises, and pout. We’d be better served by not worrying about scripting life, knowing the Father has already written the perfect script (through His Word), we just need to faithfully act it out. We’re all thespian’s, but let’s make sure we act like Jesus!

We can quote the Word of God all day to self and others, but nothing will touch us or others more than when we faithfully act it out in our own life… HSAY

Daily Wisdom

 Mar 12:31 “The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

Social responsibility becomes an aspect not of Christian mission only, but also of Christian conversion. It’s impossible to be converted to God without being converted to our neighbor. We may choose not to, but we’ve been commanded, thus responsible to it. These commandments are from the O.T. (Deut 6:5; Lev 19:18). Loving God, and our neighbor as ourself are the greatest of commandments. Conversion does not make us perfect, but it does catapult us into a full responsibility of discipleship that affects - and infects - every sphere of our living. God loves and cares for His creation and has the right to expect this loving care be replicated from soul to soul. Love glorifies God; God is love!

What a wonderful world we would see if Christians practiced Christianity… HSAY