Monday, May 22, 2023
Today’s Thought “Like Yesterday…” G. Ward
Matthew 18
9 And if your eye is causing you to sin, tear it out and throw it away from you. It is better for you to enter life with one eye, than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fiery hell.
The analogy provided from our Lord clearly referenced the many stumbling blocks that hinders our full surrender to His lordship and one such hindrance is the notion widely accepted that says “I can.” Rarely are we in tune to the historical actuality in how man arrived unto God’s earth. The dust of our composition revealed a limited, frail and vulnerable existence. We’ve listened to an inaccurate tag in some deemed strong, while only God is and HE kept us weak so as to depend on HIM in everything (*Pr.3:5-6).
It appears harsh, even grotesque, such an analogy aforementioned, until our resolve (spiritually – 1 Cor.2:14) understands that nothing should keep us from an implicit trust of Christ (the Only All-Wise Savior), who made us (John 1:3-4) and remains Sufficient to govern us…
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