Psalms 25:4 “Make me to know YOUR ways, O LORD; teach me YOUR paths.”
With Ever Honest Appraisals!
To progressively align with HIS image requires daily transformation.
To look more like CHRIST most necessitates feedback then from others…on the same journey.
Often those without faith will assign observations and sometimes they’re valid.
But none who reject CHRIST can serve as spiritual guides for our lives.
Therefore! Change us by YOUR own hand, we pray. Yes!
Transform our lives by YOUR sovereign will more into YOUR likeness each hour!
And bring others of like faith to correct and realign us as welcome strands of Heaven’s fabric!
As HIServant and strand daily seeking to walk more accurately in this path laid out for me by HIS holy design,
Whitney
Devotional: 2 Corinthians 13:5 “Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves.
Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that JESUS CHRIST is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test!”
How often do we sincerely take behavioral advice from others who regularly exhibit inconsistent, questionable or even bad behavior?
I would hope… Infrequently.
James 1:19 “Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger…”
Yet we each must daily examine ourselves with humility with intent focus on leading within HIS footprints…which are in the very Word of GOD.
Deuteronomy 4:9 “Only take heed to yourself, and diligently keep yourself…
…lest you forget the things your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life.
And teach them to your children and your grandchildren…”
Now it’s said that “Perception is Reality” but one’s observation is ever slanted by personal opinion and proven by past display.
Yet we must sift through such variables to extract and apply truth.
So! Let us each, my Self most of all, be quick to hear and quick to discern.
Yes! May we, with ever honest appraisals, look forward to apply course corrections with the very same urgency!
And teach such appraisals for our children and others to also follow!
Amen and amen.
2CJC 