Day 38 - Preparing to Live Under God’s Vision

Preparing to Live Under God’s Vision

For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Ephesians 2:10

Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I, too, am working.”
John 5:17

A collection of powerful thoughts on prayer, devotion, and transformation:

If we are to be new creatures in Christ, we must show that we are so by new ways of living in the world. If we are to follow Christ, it must be in the way we spend each day. For if the doctrines of Christianity were practiced, they would make a man as different from other people as a civilized man is from a savage. If the doctrines of Christianity were practiced, it would be as easy a thing to know a Christian by the outward course of his life as it is now difficult to find a person who lives the Christian life.
- William Law

God’s loving motive [in discipline] is to bring us into total harmony with himself so that moral power and holy usefulness becomes our in this world and in the world to come.
- A.W. Tozer

O that the Lord would open our understandings! for they are but a dead letter without the illumination of His Holy Spirit.
- George Whitefield

If you believe in Jesus, you are not to spend all your time in the smooth waters just inside the harbor bar, full of delight, but always moored; you have to get out through the harbor bar into the great deeps of God and begin to know for yourself, begin to have spiritual discernment.
- Oswald Chambers

Read these over a couple of times, as you prepare to live under God’s vision for you and for our church family. Remember that we are God’s workmanship, “created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”

Your Mission
Pray for the leaders of our congregation today. Pray specifically that God would give them the vision to reach those around us and to glorify him in all we do.