1 Peter 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
2 Timothy 2:22-24 Flee also youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. But avoid foolish and ignorant disputes, knowing that they generate strife. And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient
Are our minds on the things that Jesus taught us? Are we looking out at the world and sitting in judgement of it as if we are God?
Isaiah 45:6-7 That they may know from the rising of the sun to its setting that there is none besides Me. ‘I am the Lord, and there is none other; I form the light and create darkness, I make peace and create calamity; I, the Lord do all these things.
Job 42:1-3 Then Job answered the Lord and said: “I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of Yours can be withheld from You. You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me which I did not know.
John 14:15 If you love Me, keep My commandments.
Romans 13:10 Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
Jesus taught us by walking out His teaching and God left us His Word, and sent us His Holy Spirit. Will we heed His teaching in these times that we may bring His light to a world in pain and suffering?
John 3:16-17 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
Are we busy condemning the world? What do others see when they look at us? When we speak what do they hear?
2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is long suffering toward us not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.
Hebrews 13:20-21 Now may the God of peace who brought our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant make you complete in every good work to do His will, working in you what is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen
