Good morning. I trust that
you had fun last night. At first I wasn't too sure about these verses, but then
it hit me – this really may be important. Psalm 16 verse seven: I will bless
the Lord who has counseled me; indeed my mind instructs me in the night. I
believe that you're going to wake up one morning and that you will know that
you will know that you will know what you are
supposed to do! There won't be any doubt in your mind. Even in the
natural our subconscious works at night. People wake up knowing how to do
something they had been thinking about. It's even truer with God. Our lives and
minds are so busy that we just can't hear what God says to us. But as we are at
rest He can speak to our spirits and to our minds. And why does He do this? Verse
eight: I have set the Lord continually before me; because He is at my right
hand, I will not be shaken. When we put God first in our lives then He can
speak to us even in our sleep, and we will listen. Nothing can shake is from
the path He has shown us in the night. Because verse 11: You will make known to
me the path of life; in Thy presence is fullness of joy; in Your right hand
there are pleasures forever. Father thank You that You're speaking to the
reader even while he/she sleeps. Thank You that he’s/she's going to wake up
knowing exactly what he/she needs to do; that You are going to make known to him/her,
his/her path of life.
Therefore I exhort you, be imitators of me
Good morning. Paul then gives a list of a lot of things that he has gone through as an apostle. I do not write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children. For if you were to have countless tutors in Christ, yet you would not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel. There could be many people that you listen to either in church or through the Internet or other means; but there was only one person (as a general rule it was a person) that lead you to Christ. Therefore I exhort you, be imitators of me. He was saying that just like a child imitates his or her father, they were to imitate him. He says that again seven chapters later. Since it is easy to forget some things about people we have not seen in a while, Paul says that he sent Timothy to them to remind them of his ways which are in Christ, just as he taught everywhere in every church. Some have become arrogant, as though I were not coming to you. I shall find ou...
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