BRIAN BUSBY
from CALVARY CHILDREN’S HOME
SUNDAY 10:30AM
Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart:
2 Corinthians 2:17, “For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.”
Here the apostle Paul gives us a practical example of a person living out of God as his source.
The three special phrases in this verse–out of God, in the sight of[or, before] God, and speak we in Christ–are all ways of describing how Paul’s speaking was out of the source of God, and not out of himself.
His ministry was proceeding out of God, before God, and in Christ.
When we are redeemed and regenerated, we are ushered into the realm of the new creation, where God begins a process in which experientially the old things start to pass out of our lives.
The old things are related to our self as our point of reference.
We lived out of our own impulses, our own choices, our own thoughts.
But now we begin to live by revelation, that is, by what God has revealed to us in His Word.
It is when we live by revelation that God becomes our source.
He reveals to us the purpose of our human life.
We no longer take man’s views and concepts as the basis of our human existence.
Revelation unveils to us God’s eternal purpose, which is the purpose behind the created universe.
This revelation causes me to be a person who is living to be conformed to the image of God’s Son, with the many brothers in the church (Rom. 8:28-29).
Thus, we are squarely planted in the church life, with Christ as the focus and reality of our daily life.
We do not live by our own thoughts–what we think we should do.
We live by the unveiling of God’s heart’s desire for His Body, the church, where Christ is all and in all.
It is by this unveiling that God becomes our source.
The Spirit teaches us, through the Word, to be persons who are living a life in complete accord with God’s heart’s desire.
Our daily life begins to proceed out of God as we learn to live out of Him as our source.
Until Tomorrow,
With A Shepherd’s Love
Pastor
TODAY’S PRAYER LIST
Amy Garner’s Dad
Brandon’s Dad
Dan Haines
Darlene Wiggin’s Brother
Dr. Don Davis – Home
Freddie May’s Mom
George Alexander
Joe Johnson’s Parents
Linda Hodges’ Sister
Michael Stanley
John McClain
Linda Lanier
Mary Williams
Melisa Smith’s G’Father
Tom Witcher
Ann Sullivan – Paula’s Friend
Bentley Smith
James Garner’s Friend
Kim McClain’s Mother
Lonzo Christian
Ashley Burn’s Sisters
Bill Moody
Charlie Sessom – Waiting
Colby/Connor – Allison’s G’sons
Greg Payne – Lisa’s Brother
Hanna Hall – Pray for Grace
Kenny & Nora Allison
Kimberly – Dustin’s Sister
Larry Barker
Linda Breedlove’s Sister – Sarah
Mary Sims
Marynell Ford
Pastor & Mrs. Driskell
Paula Ferus’ Missionary Friend
Ricky Stubbs
Rod Gustafson – Cancer
Roseleigh Osborn
Scott Lanier – Linda’s Son
Shaelyn – Jill’s Friend
Sheila Simmon’s Cousin
Tammy Shellnut’s Mother/Dad