MIRROR

"For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. [24] For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like." JAMES 1:23-24

Many of today's young people have a distorted view of who they really are. Some have believed the lie that we are little more than monkeys that are fully loaded with all the options.

Do you remember going to the fair and walking through the maze of mirrors? Some would make you look chubby, while others made you look super skinny and tall. Others just made you look plain weird and twisted.

To get a proper perspective on who we really are, we've got to look into a mirror that will give us an accurate and truthful reflection. That mirror is the Word of God. However, when we walk away from God's mirror, we have to remember what kind of person His Word wants us to be. That means that when we look into God's Word, we've got to take more than a casual glance; we need to look with diligent focus.

WEAPONS

"And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God." EPHESIANS 6:17

George Patton, one of the late great American army generals, once said as he spoke to his troops, "Your job is not to die for your country, but to cause others to die for theirs." Whether we realize it or not, as Christians we area n a war. The Bible refers to us as soldiers who must fight many battles through the course of our lives. This is not a time for Christians to go "AWOL" on God. The good news is that we don't have to be afraid of any battle we face. God had given each of us an offensive weapon in our armor. It's called the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God.

It's time to stop admiring our sword, polishing our sowrd-and even carrying it. We've got to use it! When we speak the Word of God boldly in faith, that mighty spiritual weapon cuts through every temptation or spiritual opposition that comes our way.

MEDITATE

"May the words of my mouth and the thoughts of my heart be pleasing to you, O LORD, my rock and my redeemer." Psalm 19:14

This Scripture ties the words of our mouths to the meditations of our hearts. See, whatever we think about is what we're going to be talking about with our rather large mouths. Of course, there are always a few in every crowd who fail to think at all before they talk.

When someone talks about meditation, the image that usually surfaces in our minds is a person in a toga, sitting cross-legged, his eyes closed and his fingers in circles, humming in a tune that would get them kicked out of American Idol. At least it does in my imagination.

However, to His eternal credit, this is not what God has in mind when He tells us to meditate. He's simply asking us to take a few extra moments in our day to really think about and mull over His Word. When you do, you'll gain new revelation and better understanding about how to make it work in your life...So give it a try

Carpe Diem [Seize the Day]

Welcome to the epik.devo blog...
From time to time there will be new thoughts and devotions to help us along in our journey with God.

"We are all haunted with the fear of living lives of insignificance, and we all hear the voice that tells us we can live the dream. Somehow we all know that to play it safe is to lose the game...In every movement, no matter how big or small, someone went first. Isn't the essence of spiritual leadership someone who is willing to follow God first and closest? The pioneers, the divine adventurers, always go first...We must seize the day because within each day there are God given opportunities waiting to unfold, and every twenty-four-hour period is full of divine moments." - Chasing Daylight Erwin McManus

Don't miss your moment, seize the day and be who God has created you to be.

until next time