Tuesday: W19, Recovery

Training:
450 x pushups
4.2 mile walk

Daily Reading:
2 Corinthians 5-8

1.) Facts:

• The ministry of Christ is a ministry of reconciliation. Our old self has gone and our new self in Christ has taken its place. We are told not to ever become a stumbling block for others. We must lead them closer to Christ and closer to a saving faith in Him. Paul tells us to not be yoked together with unbelievers and that sorrow is a tool that leads us to repentance. 

2.) Lessons:

• 5:1 - For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.
• 5:7 - we live by faith, not by sight
• 5:10 - For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.
• 5:11 - What we are is plain to God
• 5:15 - And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.
• 5:17 - Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come:The old has gone, the new is here!
• 6:14 - Do not be yoked together with unbelievers
• 7:1 - Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God.
• 7:10-11 - Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death. See what this godly sorrow has produced in you: what earnestness, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what concern, what readiness to see justice done.

3.) Applications:

• Everything that we do and everything we are is plain to God. We will be held accountable for our actions on the day of judgment. The Lord will judge us for everything we have done on this earth so therefore we must no  longer live for ourselves, but live for Christ. We are a new creation, the old has gone and the new has come. Use the tools that God has brought into our lives, such as sorrow, to lead us to repentance and to lead us to the purification of our hearts. Emotions such as sorrow, if they come from God, will produce in us earnestness and an eagerness to clear ourselves in Gods sight. 

4.) Daily Meditation:

• 7:1 - Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God.