Morning, November 8
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Therefore, just as you have received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to walk in Him,  — Colossians 2:6
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"I will go before you and level the exalted places, I will break in pieces the doors of bronze and cut through the bars of iron."
— Isaiah 45:2 ESV

The Lord God is the Sovereign Creator King over all things. Everything in heaven and earth belongs to Him and He is in control of everything (Psalm 24:1). When He decides to go before you, nothing can stop Him. If He has decided to make a move through you, it's going to happen. If He has decided that you're the one He needs to accomplish some purpose of His, He will make it possible. It's a very good thing to have the Lord God of heaven and earth going before you.

For one thing, it means that everyone exalted and lifted up will be brought low before you. That is, everyone who sets himself or herself up as an obstacle in your path will be leveled off. It's not actual mountains He has in mind, but those that act as if they were mountains—the proud who object to your advancement, thinking they should be the ones the Lord is using. To their consternation and shame, you will be lifted up and they will be brought down.

For another thing, it means that every door that is closed before you, keeping you from moving forward, will be broken to pieces. That is, every hindrance to your reaching the goal God has set for you will be eliminated. It's not because you're so great; it's because the Lord God is great and has decided to go before you. To oppose you is to oppose Him. Jesus said, "The one who hears you hears me, and the one who rejects you rejects me, and the one who rejects me rejects him who sent me" (Luke 10:16).

Finally, having this divine team means that the "bars of iron" that have locked you in will be cut through. That is, every situation of life that has locked you up tight in fear and anxiety will be cut through. Like the Apostle Peter in Acts 12, it will be as though the prison bars didn't exist.

Get ready, then, to get moving! The Lord God is going before you.
Bible in a Year
Old Testament Reading
Jeremiah 49, 50


Jeremiah 49 -- Prophecies against Ammon, Edom, Damascus, Kedar and Hazor

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Jeremiah 50 -- Prophecy against Babylon

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New Testament Reading
Hebrews 5


Hebrews 5 -- The Perfect High Priest

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Tyndale Life Application Daily Devotion
So put to death the sinful, earthly things lurking within you. Have nothing to do with sexual immorality, impurity, lust, and evil desires. Don't be greedy, for a greedy person is an idolater, worshiping the things of this world.
Insight
We should consider ourselves dead and unresponsive to sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed. Just like diseased limbs of a tree, these practices must be cut off before they destroy us.
Challenge
We must make a conscious, daily decision to remove anything that supports or feeds these desires and to rely on the Holy Spirit's power.
Morning and Evening by Spurgeon
Colossians 2:6  As ye have received Christ Jesus the Lord.

The life of faith is represented as receiving--an act which implies the very opposite of anything like merit. It is simply the acceptance of a gift. As the earth drinks in the rain, as the sea receives the streams, as night accepts light from the stars, so we, giving nothing, partake freely of the grace of God. The saints are not, by nature, wells, or streams, they are but cisterns into which the living water flows; they are empty vessels into which God pours his salvation. The idea of receiving implies a sense of realization, making the matter a reality. One cannot very well receive a shadow; we receive that which is substantial: so is it in the life of faith, Christ becomes real to us. While we are without faith, Jesus is a mere name to us--a person who lived a long while ago, so long ago that his life is only a history to us now! By an act of faith Jesus becomes a real person in the consciousness of our heart. But receiving also means grasping or getting possession of. The thing which I receive becomes my own: I appropriate to myself that which is given. When I receive Jesus, he becomes my Saviour, so mine that neither life nor death shall be able to rob me of him. All this is to receive Christ--to take him as God's free gift; to realize him in my heart, and to appropriate him as mine.

Salvation may be described as the blind receiving sight, the deaf receiving hearing, the dead receiving life; but we have not only received these blessings, we have received Christ Jesus himself. It is true that he gave us life from the dead. He gave us pardon of sin; he gave us imputed righteousness. These are all precious things, but we are not content with them; we have received Christ himself. The Son of God has been poured into us, and we have received him, and appropriated him. What a heartful Jesus must be, for heaven itself cannot contain him!

Daily Light on the Daily Path
1 Thessalonians 5:8  But since we are of the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation.

I Pet 1:13  Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Ephesians 6:14,16,17  Stand firm therefore, HAVING GIRDED YOUR LOINS WITH TRUTH, and HAVING PUT ON THE BREASTPLATE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, • in addition to all, taking up the shield of faith with which you will be able to extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. • And take THE HELMET OF SALVATION, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

Isaiah 25:8,9  He will swallow up death for all time, And the Lord GOD will wipe tears away from all faces, And He will remove the reproach of His people from all the earth; For the LORD has spoken. • And it will be said in that day, "Behold, this is our God for whom we have waited that He might save us. This is the LORD for whom we have waited; Let us rejoice and be glad in His salvation."

Hebrews 11:1  Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

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