Morning, July 26
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For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith virtue; and to virtue, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness;  — 2 Peter 1:5, 6
Bible League: Living His Word
So we have been sent to speak for Christ. It is like God is calling to people through us. We speak for Christ when we beg you to be at peace with God.
— 2 Corinthians 5:20 ERV

There's a problem. The problem is the most fundamental problem in all of creation. If problem-solving is your thing, then this is the one you should concentrate on first. The problem is that the relationship between God, the Creator of all things, and humanity, the crown of His creation, has been damaged and disrupted by our sin against God. Consequently, instead of unity, there is opposition. We need a way to end the opposition and initiate peace.

Aha! There is a way. God himself made a way to solve the problem. If you want to take advantage of the solution for yourself, then you must make use of the way God has provided. You can't just make up a new way or solve the problem on your own terms

Where can you find the way? In Scripture. How can you understand the way? Preachers. God uses people who have already found the way to call to those who haven't. Such people are heralds of the way.

What is the content of the call they make? The Gospel. They callpeople to be at peace with God by accepting Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. Jesus was perfect, but God placed our sin on Him and made Him pay the penalty by dying on the cross. If you accept this, then God places Jesus' perfection on you and ends His opposition to you (2 Corinthians 5:21).

As you, the terms are generous. There's no penance to pay, no pilgrimage to make, and no moral perfection to achieve. If you accept the terms, if you accept Jesus and what He has done, then you will have taken advantage of the solution leading to peace with God.
Bible in a Year
Old Testament Reading
Psalm 47, 48, 49


Psalm 47 -- Oh clap your hands, all you nations. Shout to God with the voice of triumph!

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Psalm 48 -- Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised

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Psalm 49 -- Hear this, all you peoples. Listen, all you inhabitants of the world,

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New Testament Reading
Acts 26


Acts 26 -- Paul's Defense Before Agrippa

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Tyndale Life Application Daily Devotion
So watch yourselves!
        “If another believer sins, rebuke that person; then if there is repentance, forgive. Even if that person wrongs you seven times a day and each time turns again and asks forgiveness, you must forgive.”
Insight
To rebuke does not mean to point out every sin we see; it means to bring sin to a person's attention with the purpose of restoring him or her to God and to fellow humans.
Challenge
When you feel you must rebuke another Christian for a sin, check your attitudes before you speak. Do you love the person? Are you willing to forgive? Unless rebuke is tied to forgiveness, it will not help the sinning person.
Morning and Evening by Spurgeon
2 Peter 1:5, 6  Giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge, etc.

If thou wouldest enjoy the eminent grace of the full assurance of faith, under the blessed Spirit's influence, and assistance, do what the Scripture tells thee, "Give diligence." Take care that thy faith is of the right kind--that it is not a mere belief of doctrine, but a simple faith, depending on Christ, and on Christ alone. Give diligent heed to thy courage. Plead with God that he would give thee the face of a lion, that thou mayest, with a consciousness of right, go on boldly. Study well the Scriptures, and get knowledge; for a knowledge of doctrine will tend very much to confirm faith. Try to understand God's Word; let it dwell in thy heart richly.

When thou hast done this, "Add to thy knowledge temperance." Take heed to thy body: be temperate without. Take heed to thy soul: be temperate within. Get temperance of lip, life, heart, and thought. Add to this, by God's Holy Spirit, patience; ask him to give thee that patience which endureth affliction, which, when it is tried, shall come forth as gold. Array yourself with patience, that you may not murmur nor be depressed in your afflictions. When that grace is won look to godliness. Godliness is something more than religion. Make God's glory your object in life; live in his sight; dwell close to him; seek for fellowship with him; and thou hast "godliness;" and to that add brotherly love. Have a love to all the saints: and add to that a charity, which openeth its arms to all men, and loves their souls. When you are adorned with these jewels, and just in proportion as you practise these heavenly virtues, will you come to know by clearest evidence "your calling and election." "Give diligence," if you would get assurance, for lukewarmness and doubting very naturally go hand in hand.

Daily Light on the Daily Path
Hebrews 11:8  By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed by going out to a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing where he was going.

Psalm 47:4  He chooses our inheritance for us, The glory of Jacob whom He loves. Selah.

Deuteronomy 32:10-12  "He found him in a desert land, And in the howling waste of a wilderness; He encircled him, He cared for him, He guarded him as the pupil of His eye. • "Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, That hovers over its young, He spread His wings and caught them, He carried them on His pinions. • "The LORD alone guided him, And there was no foreign god with him.

Isaiah 48:17  Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, "I am the LORD your God, who teaches you to profit, Who leads you in the way you should go.

Job 36:22  "Behold, God is exalted in His power; Who is a teacher like Him?

2 Corinthians 5:7  for we walk by faith, not by sight--

Hebrews 13:14  For here we do not have a lasting city, but we are seeking the city which is to come.

1 Peter 2:11  Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against the soul.

Micah 2:10  "Arise and go, For this is no place of rest Because of the uncleanness that brings on destruction, A painful destruction.

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