EEM TODAY DEVOTIONAL🌹
🌹EEM TODAY DEVOTIONAL🌹
THURSDAY 10TH NOVEMBER, 2022
TOPIC: DESIRING PURITY
KEY SCRIPTURE: 1 JOHN 3:1-2 NLT
"See how very much our Father loves us, for he calls us his children, and that is what we are! But the people who belong to this world don’t recognize that we are God’s children because they don’t know him. Dear friends, we are already God’s children, but he has not yet shown us what we will be like when Christ appears. But we do know that we will be like him, for we will see him as he really is."
COMMENTARY:
In our born-again spirit, we are as Jesus is right now (I John 4:17). But when Jesus returns, we will become like Him in our minds and bodies.
Every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he [Jesus] is pure. - 1 John 3:3
This third verse is saying that every person who is truly born again has this inner drive for purity. You may not be fulfilling that drive very well—but it is there. Living under the law and its performance mentality will actually strengthen and empower the body of sin in your life. But if you are out from under the law, then: Sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. - Rom. 6:14
As you start truly understanding grace—the Gospel, the power of God—it will break the dominion of sin in your life and bring the benefits of salvation. If you are truly born again and understand grace, you will manifest holiness. Deep down, you will desire to fulfill your inner drive for purity.
Anyone who takes what I am teaching here and says, "Well then, this frees me up to go live in sin," needs to be born again. If you were truly born again, you would be seeking to purify yourself even as He is pure. You may be doing a poor job of it due to lack of understanding, but you desire to live for God.
Most people believe that our desire is just inherently evil. That is true of someone who is not born again, and it can also apply to a born-again person whose mind is not yet renewed. Their mind will continue to function in the corruption that it was programmed with from before until it is renewed. But if you were truly born again, you have a new drive on the inside of you. To the degree that you submit to and allow that new nature to dominate you, it will start purifying your actions. That is when you will find out—by personal experience—that the dominion of sin has been broken in your life.
If you truly understand grace—the gift of God- then you can experience intimacy with Him through the Lord Jesus Christ. As long as you are in a performance mentality, you cannot experience intimacy with God. Regardless of how well you perform, it is always going to fall short. Eternal life—intimacy with Him—is a gift!
PRAYER POINT:
Thank You Father for the gift of Eternal. I receive the grace to desire and to live a life of purity. Help me to walk in the understanding that purity is a fruit of the Righteous nature of God in me and not the fruit of my works, in Jesus' name! Amen.
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