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Job 30; Psalm 120; Galatians 3; Galatians 4
I Feel As If I’m Going Through Labor Pains For You Again,
And They Will Continue
Until Christ Is Fully Developed In Your Lives
Scripture
19 Oh, my dear children! I feel as if I’m going through labor pains for you again, and they will continue until Christ is fully developed in your lives.
Observation
I know that this passage caught my eye this morning
because my daughter Debby has been having contractions and the arrival of baby
Amelie is now a few days past the due date.
The Apostle Paul is grieving over the spiritual condition
of the believers in Galatia. It pains him like someone going through child
birth that they are not able to grasp all that they have and all that they are
in Christ Jesus.
These believers were his spiritual children. He had led
them to the Lord. Now they are being pulled away by the false doctrine of some
so called “teachers”.
I want people to experience everything that I have in
Christ. If those close to me would just live for Christ their lives would be so
radically changed. They would be so blessed. So I will continue to grieve for
them. I will not stop praying for them. I hurt for them. Do you understand what
I am saying?
Do you have people in your life that just can’t see the
riches of living for Jesus Christ?
Who are you concerned about today? Are you agonizing over
their spiritual condition?
Application
I will continue to hurt and grieve over those close
to me that need a relationship with Jesus.
Prayer
Heavenly
Father, give me a heart like the Apostle Paul’s for those I care about. I pray
for the new believers in our church. I pray that they have the opportunity to
experience all of Christ. I pray that they are not sidetracked by the false
teaching of false teachers that would rob them of the joy of the Christian
life. I pray for Debby and Kedar today and baby Amelie. I pray for a safe arrival.
I pray that she would grow up to know Christ and that she would bring You much
glory and honor.
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