Seize the Moment – Day 332
Freedom in Faith!
There is an important invitation found in 2 Peter 2:18-19, “For speaking out arrogant words of vanity they entice by fleshly desires, by sensuality, those who barely escape from the ones who live in error, promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by what a man is overcome, by this he is enslaved.”
What is promising you freedom, but is actually seeking to enslave you?
Whose promises are you listening to? The promises of Madison Avenue, of Vanity Fair, of the Stock Market, or Hollywood?
Here is the key phrase to hear as an invitation: “for by what a [person] is overcome, by this he [or she] is enslaved.”
What are you overcome by? The love of the world and all of its empty and short-sighted promises or the Love of God and His great and magnificent promises.
Listen to Peter from 2 Peter 1:4, “For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust.”
You are being invited today, once again or for the first time, to escape the corruption that is in the world by lust and rest in your fellowship with God through faith in Jesus Christ.
Seize the moment and pay attention to your appetites and desires. Does anything have a grip on you that is promising you more than it can deliver?
Let’s recite our memory verse for this week together. “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9).
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