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Blind Men, and Our View of God’s Glory

Richard Forbes
Diversity, Daily Devotion, Fear, God’s Will, Christian, Faith

Are you an individual? Do you see yourself as distinctly and physically individual? How about your personality? In fact, the one is what you are, and the other is who you are. As individuals we are referring to our physical selves, and although alike in many ways, God has made each of us unique. Our personalities, on the other hand are experienced more than seen, and so boundless in their nature that only God can truly understand them. When Jesus speaks in John 17:22-23, which of these is he referring to?

Beneath These Clothes I Pray Naked Before Thee

Richard Forbes
Forgiveness, Christian, Denial, Daily Devotion, Our Body, Sin, Prayer

Do you attempt to hide who you are from God by covering yourself in some fashion? Do you pretend to be spiritually in control when in fact you are anything but? Are your sins hidden within you where you feel they are safe from God’s eyes? Who do you fool, but yourself? Lay your iniquities before you and seek God’s help in dealing with them, because He has known them all along... even in the recesses of your heart. 

The Eaglet Who Falls From the Nest

Richard Forbes
Salvation, Daily Devotion, Choice, Christian, Eternity

We are creatures of both natural and spiritual construction. It is God’s desire that our natural selves be disciplined, and come under the authority of the spiritual, but that wild and unschooled nature is not a passive student in this transition. Have you gained control over your natural self? are you waiting for God to make this choice for you? Well He has His desire, but the choice remains yours. 

Removing the Stumbling Blocks to Achieve God’s Will for Us

Richard Forbes
Obedience, Daily Devotion, Sacrifice, Christian, Faith

Have you given up everything you are to Jesus Christ? It is easy to lay down the sin, and bad things in our lives, but have you also laid down the good? Abandoning those things that we naturally identify as good is the most profound test of our faith. Being able to leave behind anything that is contrary in order to immerse ourselves in God’s will for us is the epitome of faithfulness and obedience. 

Eternal Life and the Covenant of Grace

Richard Forbes
Forgiveness, Daily Devotion, Grace, Faith, Christian, Covenant

We don’t enter into heaven to live an eternal life because we deserve it. That kind of thinking is based upon our own vanity and arrogance. Our salvation and ever lasting life is sealed by covenant, and that covenant comes by God’s acceptance of the death of Jesus Christ as our blood sacrifice. Only through Him can we be redeemed, perfected, and sanctified. Only through Him can we claim the covenant of grace. 

Coffee Stains and the New Covenant Through Christ

Richard Forbes
Christian, Blood, Covenant, Daily Devotion, Christ

Are you in a covenant relationship with God? Have you accepted the blood of Jesus Christ as the inauguration of that covenant? Has God’s grace and forgiveness of sin through the sacrifice of Jesus become your blood offering that has sealed this covenant? We see the cross and say “this is the covenant”, but it is only a sign. We see the rending of the temple curtain and say “this is the covenant”, but it is only a sign. We see the empty tomb and say “this is the covenant”, but it too is only a sign. The covenant is forgiveness, and the blood of Jesus is the offering that seals it. Is His blood upon you? 

Our Body: An Ugly Place Made Glorious and Holy

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotion, Ownership, Temple, Our Body, Holiness

Do you have your body under control? Have you let yourself separate your spirituality of nature from the physical manifestation of that faith within your body itself? By this I am not asking if you treat yourself as a narcissist, but do you do those things that are godly and good with yourself, and treat your body as a temple of God? Our spiritual and physical beings walk hand in hand in our faith, and in our bodies we find the dwelling place of the Holy Spirit.

Trouble; Our Inoculation against Sin

Richard Forbes
Grace, Daily Devotion, Hardship, Christian, Suffering, Deliverance, Faith

Are you concerned because you are constantly at war within yourself? Does it bother you that there is a struggle going on inside you between good and evil, holy and unholy, or salvation and damnation? Well, take heart because although this conflict is the natural state of man, we have a champion who not only helps us realize the good within ourselves, but helps us to achieve it by defeating sin. 

Fear, Trembling, and the “Ah Ha!” Moments of Faith

Richard Forbes
Fear, Faith, Understanding, Christian, Daily Devotion

Do you depend on your intellect to search out the wisdom of God? Do you study and ponder His Word to find truth there, or do you alternatively use your intellect to spoon feed yourself the Word, while your spirit seeks and sifts it for those things that are of God? When we depend upon our intellect it brings us very few of those wonderful revelations that we recognize as being of Him, but when our spirit is engaged, it finds treasure for us in His most glorious depths.

Fishing; It Really Isn’t About Catching Fish

Richard Forbes
Relationship, Daily Devotion, Christian, Love

Are you approaching your faith through study and hard work to further perfect yourself each day? Every evening during your evening prayers do you kneel before God and tell Him of your progress? If this is so, and it is all you do, He will speak words similar to these back to you...”Yes, but when I walked in the garden where were you?” or, “As I love you, do you love me?” God wants our journey towards perfection to be a manifestation of our relationship with Him; our perfection is not His ultimate goal. 

Death, a Two Part Mystery that Baffles Us?

Richard Forbes
Jesus, Christian, Existence, Life, Daily Devotion, Death, Forgiveness, Faith

For a God who created the universe, breathed life into man, and on more than one occasion raised the dead... what is death? We are so small, and our experience so limited to this body, and this existence, that all of our judgements have become founded on this little slice of reality that we inhabit. As we look at life and death through a drinking straw we convince ourselves we know what it is; do we? Let’s take a high level look at death...

Humility, or Denying God in your Life?

Richard Forbes
Christian, Denial, Faith, Blessings, Daily Devotion, Belief, Oswald Chambers

God works in us each day. He brings us to the doorstep of His will, and then perfects us as our efforts join with His in accomplishing it. However, none of this achievement is possible without His efforts in us, and none is possible by our own doing. So when His will is done, in some manner, how do you respond to others when they acknowledge it in gratitude or amazement? 

Jesus, the Essence of Real Faith

Richard Forbes
Seeking, Oswald Chambers, The Gospel, Salvation, Faith, Christian, Daily Devotion, Death

Do you understand that Jesus Christ had to die in order to secure your redemption, or do you think He was just a mythological character meant to describe morality to us in a how-to book called the Bible? Friends, the account is real, and not a story; it is the single greatest event to occur since creation... complete with all the miracles, wonders, suffering, awe, and yes, death.

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