Examine Yourselves

“Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.” Matthew 6:34 NKJV

Our next group of seven things comes from the Book of Revelation. God gives a special promise to those who read this book (Rev. 1:3), but many people become so obsessed with certain particulars that they lose sight of the beautiful truths found in the book. The book is prophetic, but we will not be looking at prophesy. Our look will be at the seven churches found in chapters two and three and how they speak to our church today. We live today, not in the future but in the present. Therefore the Scriptures must speak to us about the present.

In II Corinthians 13 Paul admonishes the people in that church to examine themselves to see if they are really Christians.  In Revelation two and three Jesus challenges the people of five of the seven churches to consider their own walk with Christ and whether it is Christ-like. That is a call for all of us to answer, how and I doing in my walk with Christ today? If I can sort out all the particulars of Revelation’s prophecies, but can’t live like Christ today, what good is it? I trust these seven devotions on the seven churches will be an encouragement to us all toward a more Christ-like walk.

Dear Father, Help me be concerned today about how I live for Christ. Amen. 

The Friday Benediction

Until Monday, my friends, may the good God envelop you with His grace; may you prove the common confession of faith, “I believe in the holy Christian church and in the fellowship of the saints”, and may you be enriched with joy and hope as you exercise that confession this weekend.  Amen

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