February 15, 2024

TODAY’S SCRIPTURE READING:

“Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of Him who is the head, that is, Christ. From Him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.” (Ephesians 4.14, 15, 16)

REFLECTION ON GOD’S WORD:

And if we speak the truth in love it is with the words of our mouths and the meditations of our hearts that we do so. We need to think correctly on this. It is vitally important that we understand our alignment with the mind of Christ is essential to our growth as Christ followers on an individual and corporate level. Paul reminds the Ephesians that their unity as a people of faith comes from the mind of Christ. He is the head of the body of believers who are the incarnation of the Word of God. As we exist now in the Age of the Church which Christ Himself instituted, we can only do so successfully when we think like Jesus. That would mean we should put on our “spiritual” thinking caps. As His disciples we are called to be disciplined and invested in the Word of God so purposefully that there will be a difference seen in us as we are in the world but not of it.

TODAY’S PRAYER IN RESPONSE TO GOD’S WORD:

Father, before we were conceived in the womb, You had already formed us in Your love and by Your Spirit spoke us into being. Each one of us is blessed with the opportunity of doing right, being good and producing the fruit of the Spirit so that others may be fed the truth of that same love so that the two will become one. It is our soul’s sincere desire to embrace the oneness You have in mind that we would know that we are Your people and that You are our God. Lead us in that discovery of the truth and the manifestation of that love for us all. In Jesus’ name, we pray. AMEN.