In Touch Devotional 27 September 2022 | Dr Charles Stanley
Welcome to In Touch Daily Devotional for Tuesday 27th September 2022 written by Dr Charles Stanley. God bless you as you study and pray!
IN TOUCH DAILY DEVOTIONAL 27 SEPTEMBER 2022, TUESDAY
Topic: The Spirit-Filled Life
Our self-driven efforts will produce frustration and disappointment.
Dr Charles Stanley Devotional September 27, 2022
Scripture: 1 John 2:3-6
There was a time when I was so disheartened that I wondered whether to remain in the ministry. How could I tell people that Jesus would give them peace and joy when I didn’t feel it myself?
God let me stew in my anxiety until I was fully committed to finding out if His Word was true or not. I found my answer in a biography of missionary Hudson Taylor. For a long time he, too, felt that his efforts fell short of the Lord’s expectations. But Taylor realized God wanted believers to trust Him fully and rest on His promises.
As a child, I was taught that a person got saved and then went to work for God. You did the best you could to think, speak, and act in a wise, godly manner. When your best wasn’t good enough, well, you tried harder. Such an impossible expectation was wearing me out. This idea of letting Jesus Christ work through me sounded both biblical and liberating.
A grape branch doesn’t bear fruit because of its determined efforts to get sunshine; rather, it simply abides in the vine, and fruit appears. The vine does all the work. In the same way, believers are to be in union with their Savior so that spiritual fruit can grow in their life.
Bible in One Year: Habakkuk 1-3
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