In preparing to teach our students tonight at our weekly gathering I was studying the book of Jude. You know, it's that really small one right before Revelation. It's probably one page in your bible. It really doesn't even have chapters. Only verses.
Jude urges us to contend for the faith, defend it, fight for it. Something I'm not great at. I'm going to share with the students tonight that there are a few reasons that we don't contend for it.
One is that it doesn't belong to us. You really don't fight for something that doesn't belong to you. I'm praying that I can lay hold of the gospel and make it mine this week. Another would be that we're not equipped. No one knows what the bible says. We don't study it. How can you contend for something when you don't know what it says. The last would be that we lack compassion. That's the one that hurts the most. If I saw my neighbor's house on fire I would probably kick the door in and do everything I could to get him out of there. I want the same passion for people who are in spiritual darkness.
God speaks to me everyday about something that is amiss in my life. But he also encourages me and lets me know I'm on the right track. Here's hoping that you allow him to do that with you.
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