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CURRENT RADIO SERIES God's Secrets   CURRENT TV SERIES Unchained

So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. --1 Peter 2:1-3 Do you want to experience lasting change in your Christian walk? Of course you do. I do, too. This lasting change is ours when we discipline ourselves to consume God’s Word. You see, getting the Scripture inside us is essential to the miracle of transformation. So how do we do this? Well, in the verse above, Peter tells us to make room for the pure milk of the Word of God by getting rid of the toxic sin in our lives. Peter mentions five specific sins: malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander. Peter’s list here is suggestive of all the toxic stuff in our lives that needs to go. If you don’t get rid of the sin, it’s simply impossible to be a healthy, growing Christian. Spiritually, the process of consuming God’s Word is just like the process of developing a healthy diet, physically. You and I have to purposefully stop consuming junk food in order to consume the things that are good for us! And it does us no good to eat both. Lasting change is in your grasp, and God’s Word is the way to make it happen. So I urge you, don’t waste this precious gift. Let go of sin and fill yourself with God’s Word! STOP CONSUMING SPIRITUAL JUNK FOOD AND CONSUME GOD’S WORD INSTEAD.

Do What You Can While You Can

by Dr. Paul Chappell

“Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest. I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.”
Ecclesiastes 9:10–12

Edward Everett Hale, who served as Chaplain of the U.S. Senate in the early 1900s, wrote, “I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. What I can do, that I ought to do. And what I ought to do, by the grace of God, I shall do.” Each day, every one of us has opportunities to do things for God that will never come again in exactly the same way. We meet people who are lost, people who are discouraged, and people who are suffering. If we are not diligent in our efforts, the opportunities to help them will be lost forever.
The reality is that none of us knows how long we have to live. Moses wrote, “So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom” (Proverbs 90:12). When we number our days as the Bible teaches, we come up with one—today is the only day that we know we have to serve God and serve others. That means we need to seize every opportunity to work for God, and do all that we can for Him while there is still time.
 

Today’s Growth Principle: 

Seizing the opportunities that come to us day after day is the only way to have a life of faithful service.