Seven Reasons We Experience R.E.S.T In The Word of God.
If anything in the universe will help you experience Rock-solid Eternal Spirituality Today, it will be the very Word of God. And here are seven reasons this R.E.S.T, WILL occur, if you embrace it by faith:
Read 2 Timothy 3:16-17
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Here Are The Seven:
1. All Scripture is God Breathed. Or it is given by inspiration of God, and it is inspiring to bring pure Heavenly enlightenment to your life. Vs. 16a. What a wonderful promise this is! Few things are better than to live inclined, motivated and empowered to follow Gods lighted path throughout your journey. To have God breathing His will into your life will help you make your best choices.
2. It is profitable for Doctrine: Vs. 16b This is God revealing what He wants us to know, to be, and what we are to do. Through the Word of God, or knowing what God expects, helps us to possess His mind. 1 Corinthians 2:16. This leads us to becoming what He want us to be . And this opens our life door wide open to walk through the door, and it prepares us to do what God desires.
3. It’s profitable for reproof: Vs. 16c.This is God telling us what He wants us to stop: It’s easy to , without God’s guidance, to really mess up our lives, and maybe other people’s lives. The evil one loves for Christians to foul up. Think about it: Evil is L-I-V-E spelled backwards; however, if we allow the Word to inspire us with God’s “NO” we will be guided away from things harmful, unhealthy or unholy. This is God’s Divine protection at its best. His loving stop signs secure, and they order our lives. His “Thou Shalt Nots” save us.
4. It’s Profitable for correction: Vs 16d. The Word is like what we, today, call our GPS. If we are off course, God uses it to bring us on course. If we get off course, God uses it to correct our course. His Word keeps us on course. And so, we trust in the Lord with all our hearts, and we don’t lean on our understanding. We acknowledge Him, and He directs our path. He uses His Word as one way of getting us to where we need to be here on earth and on our way to Heaven.
5. It’s profitable for instruction in righteousness: Vs 16e. I say He instructs us in rightwayness. He instructs us in how to live, and how to live in the right way. Yes, contrary to what the politically correct Secular Humanist say, there is a right way to live. And there is a wrong way to live. God is the decider on what is right, what is wrong, what is holy, what is unholy, and on what is healthy or unhealthy. He reveals the truth about all this in His Word… The Word of God
6. It’s profitable for perfecting us: Vs. 17a. God uses His Word to grow us so that, as John Wesley said, “We go on to perfection.” VS. 17a. Jesus said, “Be ye perfect as I am perfect. ” see Matthew 5:43. Hebrews 10: 14 says “By one sacrifice, He has perfected forever those whom God is making Holy.” This perfection– that is in God’s sight — and in which we are growing, is seen in Romans 8:28-29. Here we see that no matter what happens in our lives God uses it to make us, like little sisters and brothers of Christ who are being formed into Jesus’s image. Hallelujah!
7. Last, but not least, it is profitable –Vs. 17b — to thoroughly be furnished to do every good work. We who have been Saved, Sanctified, Perfected in God’s sight, or as The Apostle Peter says, “we have all we need to live godly lives!” 2 Peter 1:3 NIV. God supplies all our needs according to His riches in Glory. –Paul. His Holy Spirit empowers us through the Word of God, in Jesus Holy Name, to have the stuff to be enough.
Please, dear reader, Meditate on these vital eternal 7 truths. Embrace them line by line, and then find R.E.S.T, God’s Holy Scripture. Let God help you to experience …
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