Holiness, Godliness, Usefulness
03/10/2014, by John Kincaid
Lesson 171: Meditation With a Purpose
Discipline is not a matter of gritting your teeth and vowing never to do it again.
Discipline means structured, planned training. Just do your exercises. Read your Bible.
You need a plan for how to apply Scripture in your life. Ask 3 questions as you meditate:
- What does this Scripture teach about God’s will for my holy living?
- How does my life measure up to this verse? Specifically how do I fall short?
- What steps do I need to take? What change in actions will help me obey?
Specific goals we can measure are essential. Commitment to specific actions is uncomfortable.
Resist the urge to make commitments like “I will try to do better next time.” When we grow in knowledge of the truth, and fail to specifically respond to that knowledge by doing it, we deceive ourselves. James 1:22
Pride: 1 Cor.8:1 knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
About This Series
The goal of this series is to become more useful in serving the Lord Jesus Christ, as an instrument in the Redeemer's hand. The theme verses for the series are Ephesians 4:22-24, Philemon 11, 2 Timothy 2:21
- to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds,
- and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
- Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you and to me.
- Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from what is dishonorable, he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart as holy, useful to the master of the house, ready for every good work.
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