Proverbs 3:34. Toward the scorners [God] is scornful, but to the humble he gives favor. You’ve probably heard the expression you reap what you sow.
Learning to live by the indwelling life of Christ.
Proverbs 3:34. Toward the scorners [God] is scornful, but to the humble he gives favor. You’ve probably heard the expression you reap what you sow.
Read Psalm 5:7-12. 7But I, through the abundance of your steadfast love, will enter your house. I will bow down toward your holy temple in
Read Psalm 119:153-160 153Look on my affliction and deliver me, for I do not forget your law. 154Plead my cause and redeem me; give me
Read Psalm 119:17-24 17Deal bountifully with your servant, that I may live and keep your word. 18Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things
The psalmist is reminding us not of the patriarch’s great moral example that we must follow (far from it), but of the great grace of God that we must trust by faith. Faith alone in grace alone is what to live is Christ requires. The morality will follow faith, in this life and definitely in the next. Until then let Christ be you Savior first and the only example you need second.
To live is Christ is to not prosperity, but it is a position of honor in the presence of God.