READ YOUR RHAPSODY OF REALITIES DAILY DEVOTIONAL. ABILITIES OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT - PASTOR CHRIS OYAKHILOME. SUNDAY, AUGUST 7TH, 2016.
And now these three remain:
faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love (1 Corinthians 13:13
NIV).
The Bible shows us that there’re
three important virtues that God has given to human beings. Cats and dogs don’t
have them, neither do demons nor angels; only human beings express these three
virtues, as clearly delineated for us in the above scripture.
Now, faith is the ability to
acknowledge the invisible and to act, in spite of sensory perceptions. Hope is
the ability to expect and to project into the future. Love is the ability to
give and accept value, trust, and fellowship. If you observed these definitions
closely, you’d have noticed the emphasis on the word, “ability.” In reality,
these three are abilities; they’re important abilities and virtues.
God gave these abilities of the
human spirit to us as tools. If they’re tools, then we must use them. Let’s
take faith for example: Jesus was with His disciples in a boat and was sleeping
at the rear. A strong wind arose, and water began to flow into the boat.
Agitated, the disciples woke Jesus up and said, “Master, don’t you care that
we’re in danger?” But He responded by asking them, “Where is your faith?” (Mark
4:38-40). In other words, “You should have used your faith.”
The problem wasn’t the wind,
neither was it the water; it wasn’t the circumstances either. What Jesus asked
for was their faith. He was saying to them, “No matter what happens to you in
this world, no matter the circumstances in which you find yourselves, what you
need is your faith. Always put it to work.”
The only principles that’ll exist
in the world to come are faith, hope, and love. That’s why it’s essential for
us to understand them and put them to work. We’ve been given abilities that
aren’t unstable, but remain always. They’ll always work and produce results for
us.
PRAYER
Thank you, dear Father, for your
indescribable gifts and abilities at work in me. As a good steward of your
manifold grace, I’m perfected in every good work to do your will, doing that
which is well-pleasing in your sight, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
FURTHER STUDY:
|| Romans 5:5
And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love
of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
||
|| Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is the substance of things hoped
for, the evidence of things not seen. ||
|| Hebrews 6:19
Which [hope] we have as an anchor
of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that within the
veil; ||
Daily Scripture Reading
1-Year Bible Reading Plan: Romans
9:30-10:1-21,
Psalms 78
Psalms 78
2-Year Bible Reading Plan:
Ephesians 6:21-24,
Isaiah 58
Isaiah 58
EXTRACT
FROM: Rhapsody of Realities Daily Devotional
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