Romans 3 - reading from the NIV
Lord please open my eyes and mind to receive your Word today. Help me to make the most of the short time I have. Help me to focus on you and concentrate on your Word.
Observations
- (v3-4) – God is true, sincere, honest. Even if every man is a liar, HE is faithful.
- (10-12) – No one seeks God by themselves, He causes us to seek for Him. This passage is often quoted in favour of Calvinism, the TULIP principle, etc.
- (v20) – No one can become righteous in God’s eyes by keeping the law, for the law only makes us conscious of our sin and aware of how much it comes between us and righteousness. The law convicts us, that is its purpose.
- (v23-24) – We are all sinners, none of us can make it to God through our own efforts, (swimming to China illustration) we all fall short. Yet God will justify us freely, if we accept the gift of what His Son did for us on the cross.
- Be faithful as God is, look to His unchanging example for guidance, be honest.
- Don’t try to keep to a set of rules, don’t try to whitewash myself by keeping the law, just let it drive me to Jesus as the only deliverance from the sin it convicts me of.
Dear Lord, help me to be honest! You are faithful even if every man is a liar. You alone are forever unchanging. It is so easy for me to twist and pervert the truth, sometimes for benefit, sometimes for no reason at all; just the vile sinful nature rising up inside of me and taking over the throne of my heart. Lord I want to see the sin in my life! How can I ask your forgiveness and purifying power if I do not recognise or acknowledge the sin that stains my heart?? I will study your law and let it convict me and drive me back to you with another and yet another vile pit laid bare and another prison bar to be broken. I will throw myself at your feet and cast all my cares upon you. Thank you Lord that you are bigger than all the filth in my life. Thank you that your blood is strong enough to wash away all my filth and make my life clean. Let me never forget what you did for me that day on Calvary!! Amen
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