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by Bob and Debby Gass
Work on the inner you (2)
December 14, 2009
‘...the inward man is being renewed day by day.’ 2 Corinthians 4:16 NKJV
One day God sent the prophet Samuel to find someone to be Israel’s next king. Samuel saw a very impressive-looking guy and thought, ‘This must be the one.’ God measures with a different yardstick ‘…man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.’ (1 Samuel 16:7 NKJV) One of the criticisms Paul lived with, was people saying his looks weren’t very impressive ‘…his bodily presence is weak…’ (2 Corinthians 10:10 NKJV) His body wasn’t just ageing; it had been whipped, stoned, starved, beaten and locked in a cell. ‘It doesn’t bother me much,’ he said, ‘it’s what’s inside that matters. Something’s going on inside of me; it’s like the opposite of what’s happening outside. Outside I’m dying a little every day. Inside I’m coming to life, changing, getting stronger. Joy keeps bubbling up-even in prison. I keep getting more hopeful, even though I know my body’s going to die soon. I keep loving people more, even the people who put me here. It’s the strangest thing: I’m dying on the outside, but inside I’m coming to life.’ Paul had mastered the inner game. His thoughts ran constantly heavenward. As an old man in prison he was more alive than he had ever been. So he wrote: ‘Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?’ (Romans 8:35 NKJV) Well, trouble and hardship can win the outer game pretty easily. But there is a you in you, that no one can touch. That’s the one you must pay attention to, for that’s the game you can win!
SoulFood: Col 3, Philemon, John 19:17-30, Ps 105:16-22, Pr 30:10-14
The Word for Today is authored by Bob and Debby Gass and published under licence from UCB International Copyright © 2009
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