January 20, 2025
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Reading along with us in Deuteronomy and Corinthians? Here’s today’s reading:
2 Corinthians 3 (NIV)
1 Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, like some people, letters of recommendation to you or from you? 2 You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everyone. 3 You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.……Continue Reading
Now the lord is spirit. And where the Spirit of the Lord is there is FREEDOM!!
Amen!!!
Such encouraging words to know our veil is lifted and we can see and be transformed by the glory of God. The more we choose to operate in the spirit the more tranformation that can take place. That means we have the ability to go directly to God and experience what Moses did! We can seek the face of God through prayer and His Word and worship and all the ways we build our relationship with Him.
In Christ, we have a magnificent hope that comes out of righteousness. We are transformed by the glory of God that shines through us by the Holy Spirit. And that exudes confidence, freedom, and an understanding of what the truth is. Because of this, we are competent witnesses of the faith, and we can stand firm in all circumstances with conviction and boldness. Not in our own ability, but in a way that comes from God.
2 Corinthians 3
II Corinthians 3:2. There can be no better witness, than perfectly reflecting Jesus Christ to all others. Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
Camy McGowan
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The Spirit gives life and freedom.
Reading about the veil here in the chapter made me think about the veil of the temple when it was split in two right after Jesus died on the cross. Matthew 27:51. Jesus conquered death and therefore we can have access to His Heavenly Kingdom once we have put our faith and complete trust in Him. and with full repentance. Without His death and resurrection none of this would be possible. So in a smaller way when we come to Christ the veil of our hearts is lifted and we can now see clearly who He is and what He desires for us. And of course reading about in verse 3 about not in tables of stone but in fleshly tables of the heart for the Living Holy Spirit comes to dwell in us. The Ten Commandments {two tablets of stone} were giving as a guide to reveal our sin to ourselves but we couldn`t be made right with God by the letter of the law. That`s why He died in our place. The letter kills but the Spirit gives life. As Paul says; we are not sufficient in ourselves but our sufficiency is of God. This includes not only our salvation but our everyday lives. Always putting our trust in Him as we walk with Him. As we walk with Him; He will change us into His likeness. We won`t ever be gods but He promises us that we will be like Him. Even higher then the angels. We know this because He said so. But we are sure not worthy of any of it. But for Christ. God bless you all brothers and sisters in the Lord.
One of the benefits of being a believer in Jesus is we do not need to seek credit or affirmation from others, because our competency is not our own, if we are doing it right. Our competency comes from God through the Holy Spirit. Now that is not to say the effectiveness of our ministry is not found in the people we influence and what they are reflecting, because it is. But even that is a work of God. And what God has called us to and enabled is amazing and glorious, both with how we are impacted and how others are impacted through us. It is unobstructed. We can have as much as we are willing to expose ourselves to and submit to. In fact when we contemplate God and His glory, we are transformed INTO HIS GLORY!!!! That is PRICELESS!!!! What a work of grace, faith and humility, which are always the things that make the work of God work. And when we truly grasp hold of God, we are free..not to do whatever we want, but to be the person we are supposed to be and live the life that God intended in the first place. Now that is glorious!!!
The letter (of the law, the Old Testament) kills, but the Spirit gives life (Jesus, the New Testament.)
The old has passed away, the new has come.
”But their minds were blinded. For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Testament, because the veil is taken away in Christ. But even to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart. Nevertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.“
II Corinthians 3:14-17 NKJV