CHRIST THE SOLID GROUND

SOLID GROUND TODAY'S SCRIPTURE: “Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord…who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began” (2 Timothy 1:8–9). DAILY FIRE! There is no real life without the secret of God. Abraham learned to trust God, and it revealed to him the paths of peace. In his day, cities existed by military might, founded on bloodshed.  God gave Abraham a new vision: a city of peace, whose “builder and maker is God.” His eyes scanned far horizons indeed. He was the first to discern the paths of righteousness, paths “in the sea” and ways in the wilderness.  The paths of righteousness and peace have been found. They are marked and known. Used or not, they can now never be forgotten, but are there, freeways open for all. Many nations claim to follow them, but it is only feebly.  If we traced them back, they would bring us to the tent door of Abraham, where God said to him, “Walk before Me and be blameless” (Ge nesis 17:1). The letter to the Hebrews sums up that for which Abraham lived:  “He waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God” (Hebrews 11:10).  In his day, nobody knew of any spiritual foundations. Rulers ruled only for their own benefit. Before Abraham, people’s heads were vacant of any purpose or plan. Nobody knew why on earth he or she was on earth!  Paul faced the agnostics and Stoics of Athens, saying:  “These times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent” (Acts 17:30).  Therefore, he wrote to Timothy,  “Jesus Christ…brought life and immortality to light through the gospel” (2 Timothy 1:10). Paul also talks about those who “professing to be wise…became fools” (Romans 1:22). We may live without knowing the distance to the nearest star, or the secrets of the atom: but there is no real life at all without the secret of God. Taken from Daily Fire Devotional: 365 Days in God’s Word by Reinhard Bonnke. Copyright © 2015 by Reinhard Bonnke. Use by permission of Whitaker House. www.whitakerhouse.com

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