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What Do You See In the Mirror?

Ephesians 2:10 (ESV) says, “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.”



In your vanity mirror, hallway mirror, rearview mirror...look at yourself. You may not even need to look at the image. Maybe it’s been seared into your mind already. Who do you see? Or better yet, what do you see? We aren’t who we think we are. We aren’t what others think we are. We are what we think others think we are. Listen to that again...we are what we THINK others THINK we are. Well the only “other” that matters is what God thinks we are. And in Ephesians 2:10 it says we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.



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Running the Path for Christ
Are you a spectator, or running the race?

Written by Gary Fleetwood on 11/08/2020
Series: Weekly Devotional
Tags: Discipline, Perseverance, Sacrifice, Race, Endurance
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.

1 Corinthians 9:24
When I was in college I played soccer for a team that was very successful. The men recruited were highly skilled players who understood the game. However, I quickly learned that no matter how skilled someone was, they really had no lasting value to the team if they were not willing to do what was necessary to stay in great physical shape. The same is true for the spiritual race that we find ourselves in as Christians. If we are going to be successful spiritually, then there are certain qualities that must be developed in our life, and each one of them is similar to what is required of an athlete.

What do I need to do in order to win a race?
Training to win a race or a contest requires three specific qualities – discipline, endurance, and sacrifice.
Am I just a spectator? Hebrews 12:1 says, “Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us…”

The first thing we notice is that we are in a spiritual race. Unfortunately, many Christians are not in the race, but are just spectators watching other Christians actually run the race. They have a nice seat in the stands, have bought some refreshments, and are sitting in the shaded area just watching everyone else run the race. They simply have not understood that the Christian life is a “race” that has been “set before us”.

The Christian life is described as a “race”
In 2 Timothy 4:7 Paul says, “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.” So, it is critical that we understand what a race requires. Every athlete

Hello, Follower of Jesus:

Psalms 103:11-12 tells us, “For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.”

What difference should it make in your life that your sins are flung far away from you?

Knowing your sin will never again be brought up by your heavenly father should bring ecstatic joy to your heart.