THE LAMP DEVOTION
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28
NO ENTANGLEMENTS
Hebrew 12:1-2
One of the analogies the Bible gives to the Christian experience on earth is that we are in a race. We all know what happens in a race. People run to win. No one runs in a race to lose. They all prepare themselves and promise their people that they are going to surprise the world by beating the unbeatable.
We know that the people who run in track events wear light materials, including what they wear on their feet. The women for example do not wear high hills for a hundred-meter dash, or the long-distance events. Anything that is heavy or which will make it difficult to move is an entanglement.
Unfortunately, in life we do not learn from the athlete. We run the Christian race with too many entanglements. We adopt lifestyles that are in direct confrontation with the ethics of our Christian walk, including behaviors that inhibit our spiritual and moral development.
We must be spiritually smart to discern those things that don’t come out as “sins” but gradually move us away from the principles God expects us to live by. We argue about those weights. If an athlete wears high heeled shoes, I don’t know if she will be asked to remove it, but we know the end result. She will be last in the race, nowhere near the medal zone.
Prayer
1. Thank God for instructing us in what we should remove from our lives.
2. Pray that you will be humble about weights in your life and remove them.
3. Father, please help me run the Christian race light.
Declarations
I decare that I am a wise athlete in the Christian race. I have no place for sin in my life, but much more, I don’t entertain weights that slow me down in my Christian life. With the Help of the Holy Spirit, I discern the weights and I kick them out of my life. In the name of Jesus, I declare I will have a victorious Christian experience while waiting for the return of Jesus Christ my Lord.
Author: Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28
NO ENTANGLEMENTS
Hebrew 12:1-2
Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
One of the analogies the Bible gives to the Christian experience on earth is that we are in a race. We all know what happens in a race. People run to win. No one runs in a race to lose. They all prepare themselves and promise their people that they are going to surprise the world by beating the unbeatable.
We know that the people who run in track events wear light materials, including what they wear on their feet. The women for example do not wear high hills for a hundred-meter dash, or the long-distance events. Anything that is heavy or which will make it difficult to move is an entanglement.
Unfortunately, in life we do not learn from the athlete. We run the Christian race with too many entanglements. We adopt lifestyles that are in direct confrontation with the ethics of our Christian walk, including behaviors that inhibit our spiritual and moral development.
We must be spiritually smart to discern those things that don’t come out as “sins” but gradually move us away from the principles God expects us to live by. We argue about those weights. If an athlete wears high heeled shoes, I don’t know if she will be asked to remove it, but we know the end result. She will be last in the race, nowhere near the medal zone.
Prayer
1. Thank God for instructing us in what we should remove from our lives.
2. Pray that you will be humble about weights in your life and remove them.
3. Father, please help me run the Christian race light.
Declarations
I decare that I am a wise athlete in the Christian race. I have no place for sin in my life, but much more, I don’t entertain weights that slow me down in my Christian life. With the Help of the Holy Spirit, I discern the weights and I kick them out of my life. In the name of Jesus, I declare I will have a victorious Christian experience while waiting for the return of Jesus Christ my Lord.
Author: Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams
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