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Hand in Hand
I’ve been thinking of 2 sides of the same coin and how important loving GOD and The Great Commission is and what GOD calls Pure and faultless.
Then I read the blog post below from Kim Petitt from her blog Beyond My Limitations
Why evangelism and helping those less fortunate must go hand in hand?
She inspired me to write more about what I’ve been thinking and meditating on. Thank you Kim!
We can come to know GOD’s will and heart for us in following JESUS with our lives…
So, if we think of 2 coins that go hand in hand:
First coin in one hand:
1st side is Love the LORD your GOD with all your heart, soul, mind and strength toward fulfilling The Great Commission of sharing the Gospel
2nd side is Love your neighbor as oneself which can become an action of providing for the poor and needy especially to our brothers and sisters in Christ
Second coin in the other hand:
1st side is that Pure and faultless religion is this to care for the orphans and widows in distress
2nd side is Keep oneself from being polluted by the world
So I agree that evangelism and meeting needs go hand in hand is truth… And we must also practice purity in our personal lives…
We can often forget about the importance of purity, but there is great reward when we focus on praying to be pure, thinking pure thoughts, being pure in our actions with others, knowing the benefits of being pure, and trusting that HE purifies us…
Prayer to Be Pure
Psalm 51
For the director of music. A psalm of David. When the prophet Nathan came to him after David had committed adultery with Bathsheba.
1 Have mercy on me, O God,
according to your unfailing love;
according to your great compassion
blot out my transgressions.
2 Wash away all my iniquity
and cleanse me from my sin.
3 For I know my transgressions,
and my sin is always before me.
4 Against you, you only, have I sinned
and done what is evil in your sight;
so you are right in your verdict
and justified when you judge.
5 Surely I was sinful at birth,
sinful from the time my mother conceived me.
6 Yet you desired faithfulness even in the womb;
you taught me wisdom in that secret place.
7 Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean;
wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
8 Let me hear joy and gladness;
let the bones you have crushed rejoice.
9 Hide your face from my sins
and blot out all my iniquity.
10 Create in me a pure heart, O God,
and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
11 Do not cast me from your presence
or take your Holy Spirit from me.
12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation
and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.
13 Then I will teach transgressors your ways,
so that sinners will turn back to you.
14 Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God,
you who are God my Savior,
and my tongue will sing of your righteousness.
15 Open my lips, Lord,
and my mouth will declare your praise.
16 You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it;
you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings.
17 My sacrifice, O God, is[b] a broken spirit;
a broken and contrite heart
you, God, will not despise.
18 May it please you to prosper Zion,
to build up the walls of Jerusalem.
19 Then you will delight in the sacrifices of the righteous,
in burnt offerings offered whole;
then bulls will be offered on your altar.
Pure Thoughts
Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable–if anything is excellent or praiseworthy–think about such things. Philippians 4:8
Pure Actions
1 Peter 1:22 English Standard Version (ESV)
Psalm 24:3-5 ESV
Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord? And who shall stand in his holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully. He will receive blessing from the Lord and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
2 Timothy 2:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
1 Peter 1:22 ESV
22 Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,
Benefit of Being Pure
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God“. Matthew 5:8
Hope in HIM to Be Pure
Hebrews 9:14 English Standard Version (ESV)
14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
1 John 3 English Standard Version (ESV)
3 See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2 Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears[a] we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. 3 And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.
We can have faith without deeds or deeds without faith. Both ways are lacking.
However, faith in action (with deeds) should be a priority and an essential part of the mix for others to find HIM faithful, to realize HE’s true to HIS nature/character, and to discover HIS authenticity/reality…
JESUS wants to save/forgive and provide for one’s needs… When we read about HIS life, HE did both simultaneously…
The early church also had to focus on the priority of prayer/preaching of the Word and taking care of needs… It would reconcile to do both…
The Choosing of the Seven
James 2:14-26 New International Version (NIV)Faith and Deeds14 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? 15 Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. 16 If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? 17 In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. 18 But someone will say, “You have faith; I have deeds.” Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds. 19 You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that—and shudder. 20 You foolish person, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless[a]? 21 Was not our father Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? 22 You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did. 23 And the scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,”[b] and he was called God’s friend. 24 You see that a person is considered righteous by what they do and not by faith alone. 25 In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute considered righteous for what she did when she gave lodging to the spies and sent them off in a different direction? 26 As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead. |
Sharing faith, Shining faith in Hope, and Showing faith with Love
Hebrews 10:24 New International Version (NIV)
24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds,…
Pure Strength
Pure strength
Sought deep within
The last frontier
Taught in the open
Savior’s blood
Wrought for us to be forgiven
Savior’s scars
Bought souls for HIM
Savior’s stripes
Brought healing to the broken
Savior’s crown of thorns
Blot out what left shame, regret, guilt ridden
GOD’s Word
Ought to warn us about what’s forbidden
Holy Spirit
Caught up into us all truth that we may listen
Abba, FATHER
Forethought gives us Heaven’s wisdom
High Priest
Fought to intercede until we’re awoken
King of kings
Allot to reign in HIM with sons and daughters once orphans restored for Heaven as treasured tokens
Be a Voice For Orphans 