May 2015 – Page 2 of 2 – Sonshine's Journal

May 7, 2015

For What Are You Thirsting?

We are not asking about a casual thirst but a deep desperate thirst for which one must have it or will physically die. But there is another kind of thirst and that one is spiritual. It is a deep longing that only God can fill.

In John 4 we meet a woman who came every day with her waterpot to the well in Samaria. She was physical thirsty but Jesus looked beneath and saw within her a deep spiritual thirst. So when Jesus offered water that that he could give by which she would never thirst again she asked: “”Sir, give me this water, so I will not be thirsty nor come all the way here to draw.” But the water he would offer would be living water which would quench not her physical thirst but her spiritual thirst for it will come from the living God, the Living Water.

The psalmist thirsted for God, for the living God. His too was a deep desperate thirst which only God could supply. Drinking from God’s well is the fountain of life and only from it is the soul satisfied. Those who seek the living water will be blessed for they hunger and thirst not for water but for righteousness. [Mt 5]The true Living Water that satisfies the deep heart longing became sin on our behalf so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

Jesus’ promise is that he “will give to the one who thirsts from the spring of the water of life without cost.” Have you come to drink from the fountain of the Living Water today?

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May 6, 2015

How to Love Thy Neighbor….

Discipline is hard for parents and for children but this keeps both accountable and keeps the family living peacefully with one another. Paul has been acting as the parent to these precious Galatian babes in Christ who are dividing the Galatian church by their childish actions of snapping and arguing and had fallen for the bait of the “Thou Shalt be Circumcised and Obey the Mosaic Law” legalists. Paul asks those who had had not swallowed their bait to take on a mighty task of restoring gently those who were the back biters, devourers and provokers so that the church is once again united in Christ.

However, before they or anyone takes on this task there is are two steps that must be adhered to: “First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.” And secondly, be living by the law of Christ which means living out the character of Christ step by step. Both of these require self-examination so as not to be self-deceived and quench and grieve the Holy Spirit. The only thing that mattered was: faith working through love and demonstrating that one is a new creation in Christ. This is how you love your neighbor as yourself.

Are we mature enough in the Lord to do this? This can only happen by immersing oneself in the Word, meditating upon it so you can discern truth from error. Only then can one bear the burdens another carries.

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May 4, 2015

Incredible Salvation!

For the last few days we have been reading through the book of Galatians which priovides marvelous practical thoughts from the Apostle Paul on what true justification and righteousness is. Today’s reading is from Galatians 4:

May 4^th: Gal 4 “Incredible Salvation”

As we read Galatians 4 we are struck with not only how incredible our salvation is but the price that was paid to secure it. We are humbled and awestruck…there is no other way to say it.

Note Paul’s progressive argument:

We were enslaved by our guardians (meaning the world system)
God’s perfect timing came about – implication: God is in control of history’s calendar events
God sent His One and Only Beloved Son (Matt 3:17)
Son born of a woman (virgin birth Luke 1)
Son born under the Law …He fulfilled it (Matt 5:17)
The purpose: to redeem mankind who were in bondage to the Law (Eph 2:1-3)
The reason: that we may as Gentiles be adopted as pure and legitimate sons with all of the rights and privileges thereof.
The gift of the Holy Spirit is given as a seal of our inheritance (2Cor 1:22)
Now we know (as a fact or truth) God and are known (so thoroughly that nothing goes unnoticed) by God

Think of this argument! Incredibly clear, incredibly profound, incredibly humbling…there are few words to express our gratitude when we read and understand Paul’s argument. We are saved by His grace once and for all eternity. Give Him praise this day as you worship Him.

There is no other way around this but to say, THANK YOU FATHER!

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