It
Is
What Comes
From
The Inside That Defiles You.
Scripture
Mark
7
Observation
Hasn't
Halloween now become a huge moneymaker for businesses in America. I
read somewhere that people will spend 2.6 billion dollars on
Halloween this year, an average of $25 per adult.
And
tonight Kathy and I look forward to all the kids (especially our
grandkids) coming to our door wearing their spooky masks and
Halloween costumes thinking that they are going to scare us!
Yes,
our kids and our grandkids will wear masks tonight on Halloween. But
hey, all of us adults wear masks too, the difference is that we
adults wear them every day.
On
the outside we appear one way, but inside of each one of us lurks
everything evil that is described in Mark 7:20-23.
I
memorized this verse a long time ago as a reminder to me about what
is lurking inside of me. “The
heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can
know it?” Jeremiah 17:9
Application
I
realize that I am a sinner. I know that I am broken. I know that I am
capable of every evil thing that Jesus describes in Mark 7.
Romans
12:1-2
Therefore,
brothers, by the mercies of God, I urge you to present your
bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God; this is
your spiritual worship.
2 Do not be
conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing
of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good,
pleasing, and perfect will of God.
Prayer
Heavenly
Father, I pray that you keep my children and my grandchildren safe
tonight as they go out trick o' treating. I pray that You keep them
well. Continue to heal our daughter Debby.
I
pray that You will help me to be a person of integrity. Help me to
walk in purity. Keep me away from stupid sins. Sins that mess up my
walk with You and that will mess up my relationship with those around
me. I know that my heart is deceitful above all things and
desperately wicked. So help me to guard my heart.
Daily
Bible Reading: Job 22; Mark 7,8
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