Faithfulness's Fitness/Litmus Test (or All For Christ)
Today's song and poem, a very personal challenge!!
Ps.130:1-4Out of the depthsI cry to You, O LORD!O Lord, hear my voice;let Your ears be attentive to my plea for mercy.If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities,then who, O Lord, could stand?But with You there is forgiveness,so that You may be feared.
Oh, Am I (that without, none can endure)Where tosses many a lovely lure
Am I prepared to be, Am I willing to be accused falsely, While for my Lord
And ?Am I devoted Ready
Am I committed to Ready, no matter what the cost, rather And
, and Knowing, for all who truly love Him, Oh, am I ready to portray Him, Him
© Janet Martin
For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing,but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
:1-17Therefore be imitators of God as dear children. 2 And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.
3 But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints; 4 neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks. 5 For []this you know, that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. 6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. 7 Therefore do not be partakers with them.Walk in Light
8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light 9 (for the fruit of the []Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth), 10 finding out what is acceptable to the Lord. 11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather []expose them. 12 For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret. 13 But all things that are []exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light. 14 Therefore He says:
“Awake, you who sleep,Arise from the dead,And Christ will give you light.”Walk in Wisdom
15 See then that you walk []circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, 16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
17 Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is...