Friday 10 October 2014

Deep meditation on Ephesians 5:1-10 (The Message Translation)

This scripture passage, shared by Jide Okoli ministered to me during #ThefathersChurch ‪#‎GetConnected‬ (Lunch-Hour fellowship) yesterday; I trust God to minister to you also.
Eph 5:1-10 (The Message Translation)
1. Watch what God does, and then you do it, like children who learn proper behavior from their parents.
2 Mostly what God does is love you. Keep company with him and learn a life of love. Observe how Christ loved us. His love was not cautious but extravagant. He didn't love in order to get something from us but to give everything of himself to us. Love like that.
3 Don't allow love to turn into lust, setting off a downhill slide into sexual promiscuity, filthy practices, or bullying greed.
4 Though some tongues just love the taste of gossip, Christians have better uses for language than that. Don't talk dirty or silly. That kind of talk doesn't fit our style. Thanksgiving is our dialect.
5 You can be sure that using people or religion or things just for what you can get out of them — the usual variations on idolatry — will get you nowhere, and certainly nowhere near the kingdom of Christ, the kingdom of God.
6 Don't let yourselves get taken in by religious smooth talk. God gets furious with people who are full of religious sales talk but want nothing to do with him.
7 Don't even hang around people like that.
8 You groped your way through that murk once, but no longer. You're out in the open now. The bright light of Christ makes your way plain. So no more stumbling around. Get on with it!
9 The good, the right, the true — these are the actions appropriate for daylight hours.
10 Figure out what will please Christ, and then do it.
God's standard should never be compromised; Lets do it HIS way....‪#‎KingdomOperatingSystem‬ ‪#‎TheKingdomWay‬ #JiggoInspires

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