MY DAILY COVENANT WITH GOD DEVOTIONAL
Devotion for Wednesday June 24,
2020
Topic: Those Who Belong To Christ
Text: Galatians 5:24 – 26
There
are things that exemplify a Christian and make such fellow peculiar or distinct.
They are the fruit of the Holy Spirit we read about yesterday. Any professing
Christian who doesn’t possess these virtues is mere compromising and should not
be taken seriously.
How
can a Christian lack love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness,
faithfulness, gentleness and self-control? If any of these is lacking in your
life, then you have either backslidden or you have been compromising. Those who
have these are those who actually and really belong to Christ according to Paul
in Galatians 5:24.
Those
who are Christ’s have crucified their flesh when they became Christians (Romans
6:3, 4), and it is done continuously (Romans 6:6) so that the Holy Spirit will
be able to produce in them the fruits just listed (Galatians 5:22, 23). It is
by faith in Christ that a man becomes dead to a sinful life and rises to a new
life of fellowship with Christ (Colossians 3:3).
Brethren,
if our inner life be in the Spirit; that is, received from the Spirit,
sustained by him, and conformed to him in character then we should also walk in
that Spirit (Galatians 5:25).
Our
outward life also should be in the Spirit; in other words, let it be conformed
to Christ in character, so that our inward principles and outward conduct shall
be in harmony with each other. This, in Paul’s opinion is what it means to
belong to Christ. Is your inward and outward life in harmony with that of
Christ? Think about it.
Food for Thought: Do you truly belong to Christ in your character?
Memory verse: Galatians 5:24
Prayer:
Lord, help me to conform to the image of Christ in my inward and outward
character in Jesus name.
