For Friday, November 29, 2024:
1 Thessalonians 5:21b-22 NLT: “Hold on to what is good. Stay away from every kind of evil.”
As a person becomes a loyal believer, a follower of Jesus and the New Covenant, we can easily separate life into two categories: things we should do, and things we shouldn’t do. With the New Covenant, Jesus taught that these laws are written on our hearts. Therefore we don’t need long lists of rules, lists of commandments, because we should instinctively know right from wrong.
And if we know what to do, we also know what NOT to do! God gave us intelligence and a gift of discernment. He gave us brains and expects us to use them! We need to slow down and lose our knee-jerk reactions to life’s problems. Take a minute and ask yourself if your reaction is good, right, fair and honest. Ask yourself, “Should I be doing this?”
Many bad decisions are put in motion when we don’t take the time to stop and think things through, to use the minds our Creator put in our heads!
Pastor Norton Lawellin
Jesus In the City Fellowship
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