From: "Phil Rembleski" <PHIl@rescuechurchofchrist.org>

To: "1111RESCUEMEMBERS"

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Sent: Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 5:54 AM

Subject: 6-27-24 THOUGHTS

6-27-24   THOUGHTS        

God wants us to share in His holiness, it takes discipline from Him for that to happen.  I’m convinced that it also takes His imputing righteousness to us from Romans chapter 4.  We must allow God to train us!  We need to “subject to the Father of spirits, and live!”  God wants our good!  

Heb 12:1-13    Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,  2  fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3  For consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart. 4  You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin; 5  and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons, "MY SON, DO NOT REGARD LIGHTLY THE DISCIPLINE OF THE LORD, NOR FAINT WHEN YOU ARE REPROVED BY HIM;  6  FOR THOSE WHOM THE LORD LOVES HE DISCIPLINES, AND HE SCOURGES EVERY SON WHOM HE RECEIVES."  7  It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?  8  But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.  9  Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live?  10  For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness. 11  All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.  12  Therefore, strengthen the hands that are weak and the knees that are feeble,  13  and make straight paths for your feet, so that the limb which is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather be healed.

My Prayer:
Lord, help us to desire Your discipline training, so that we might grow.  May we see it as Your love for us,  and receive it gladly. We know our weaknesses and desire to share in Your holiness.  When we are chastened, help us to know that it is from Your love.  Complete us, Father God, that we may abide in Your presence.   In the name of Jesus,    Amen.