Find Out What Pleases the Lord – Ephesians 5:8-10
Paul encourages us, now that we are light and not darkness, to find out what pleases the Lord. Seek to please him rather than self.
Encouraging, comforting and urging you to live lives worthy of God, who calls you into his kingdom and glory. (1 Thess. 2:12 NIV)
Paul encourages us, now that we are light and not darkness, to find out what pleases the Lord. Seek to please him rather than self.
What do you have in this life that compares to the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus as Lord? Nothing in this life can compare.
All believers, not just preachers and teachers, need to watch our lives and doctrine closely. Both for ourselves and those we influence.
As believers, we are foreigners here, this world is not our home. So live out the few years of our lives here as God’s representatives.
This psalm of David is a prayer for God’s presence and leading. It is the cry of a heart that yearns to know more and more of God. A heart that wants to know and follow his truth. A heart whose hope was not in power or strength of arms, but in God.
As Christians, there are many things that we are free to do. But don’t be a stumbling block that leads another believer to sin.
As a believer, I am called to honor God with all that I am, including my body and activities. Live as though he were with you all the time.
As a believer, build your life on the foundation of Christ with materials that will last. How you build today will impact your eternity.
As a child of God I am his heir, so long as I am willing to suffer for Christ. But that suffering is nothing compared to the glory that awaits me as God’s heir.
As a believer, I am in Christ, and participate in his death, burial, and resurrection. My life should reflect that , being dead to sin and alive in Christ.