Thursday, February 22, 2018

 
 
Devotional for Thursday, February 22, 2018
“Walking In Purpose”
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 by Dona Hake
 
 
Ephesians 5:15-17
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
 

“Look carefully then how you walk! Live purposefully and worthily and accurately, not as the unwise and witless, but as wise (sensible, intelligent people),

 Making the very most of the time [buying up each opportunity], because the days are evil.

Therefore do not be vague and thoughtless and foolish, but understanding and firmly grasping what the will of the Lord is.”

 
Paul was exhorting in this scripture that as believers we need to watch our walk in the Lord carefully not being an unwise or witless people. He proceeds to say we should live purposefully, worthily and accurately. As we seek God and purpose to walk upright before Him, we will do all that we do in word or in deed as onto Him, and it will be pleasing. Our walk before Him will be in purpose, worth, and accuracy.
 
My heart is drawn to this translation for I love its emphasis on living purposefully, worthily and accurately. It drives home to my heart the importance of knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt that I are doing exactly what the Lord wants me to do. Verse 17 states that we should firmly grasp what the will of the Lord is. One of the definitions that I found for the word ~grasp~ is to seize upon and hold firmly. One of the greatest tools the enemy can use is to cause us to become indecisive and double minded. May we be ever so cautious and watchful over our faith being hindered by falling into being double minded. Today let us be mindful of the tactics of the devil for he must seek ways to devour us, but know this…the greater one lives in us, and He is able to give us all wisdom to living with purpose, worthiness, and accuracy.
In those times in which you are needing wisdom because you are unsure if you are walking with purpose and exactness, I encourage you to call upon Him for that wisdom and instruction that is needed just for you.
 
 
James 1:5-8   Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

” If any of you is deficient in wisdom, let him ask of the giving God [Who gives] to everyone liberally and ungrudgingly, without reproaching or faultfinding, and it will be given him.

Only it must be in faith that he asks with no wavering (no hesitating, no doubting). For the one who wavers (hesitates, doubts) is like the billowing surge out at sea that is blown hither and thither and tossed by the wind.

 For truly, let not such a person imagine that he will receive anything [he asks for] from the Lord,

 [For being as he is] a man of two minds (hesitating, dubious, irresolute), [he is] unstable and unreliable and uncertain about everything [he thinks, feels, decides].