Walk the talk

Our Daily Bread
Have you ever met someone who actually lived what they professed to believe?  Whoa! You might say.  I do!  If I am honest with myself, I have to admit that I am not as loving or Godly as I think I am!  Just ask my coworkers!  Yikes!  How about you?  Do you walk the talk?

The scripture passage today is from 1Cor 13, affectionately known as the Love chapter.  I hadn't thought of the fact that Christ gave us the example of how to live this chapter.  He was our example.  He lived what he preached.  He "walked the talk"!  Let us pray for each other that we can truly walk the talk!

Lord, thank you for being our example.  We love you and praise you!

Psalm Sunday
Wow!  We are nearing the end of the Psalms!  Let's look at Psalm 140 this week. Woe be to the evil ones!

Psalm 140

For the director of music. A psalm of David.

1 Rescue me, Lord, from evildoers;
    protect me from the violent,
2 who devise evil plans in their hearts
    and stir up war every day.
3 They make their tongues as sharp as a serpent’s;
    the poison of vipers is on their lips.
4 Keep me safe, Lord, from the hands of the wicked;
    protect me from the violent,
    who devise ways to trip my feet.
5 The arrogant have hidden a snare for me;
    they have spread out the cords of their net
    and have set traps for me along my path.
6 I say to the Lord, “You are my God.”
    Hear, Lord, my cry for mercy.
7 Sovereign Lord, my strong deliverer,
    you shield my head in the day of battle.
8 Do not grant the wicked their desires, Lord;
    do not let their plans succeed.
9 Those who surround me proudly rear their heads;
    may the mischief of their lips engulf them.
10 May burning coals fall on them;
    may they be thrown into the fire,
    into miry pits, never to rise.
11 May slanderers not be established in the land;
    may disaster hunt down the violent.
12 I know that the Lord secures justice for the poor
    and upholds the cause of the needy.
13 Surely the righteous will praise your name,
    and the upright will live in your presence.

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Revivals greatest enemy is Pride, and the only bride Revival will walk down the isle with is Humility. Humility will deny herself the right of self gratification rather than turn away from God to fulfill her own pleasures, and she will not allow herself to receive the praise that should go to another (especially the Lord). Finally, she will rush to renounce herself, rather than sitting quietly when her Lord is robed of His glory. Oh, Father, we are so unlike her, but may we meet her so that we may walk down the isle to Revival and true Christlikeness? from  Jonathan Edwards on Humility in Religious Affections