Life Capsule for Today Date: 1st December, 2023
Theme: The Ministry of the word (6)
Memory Verse: 2 Tim 3:16
16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: KJV
Topic: The Word as a means of correction
Today’s Reading: Heb 12:6
6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. KJV
Words of the Ministry:
Through our studies within the week, we have seen the several roles the word of God plays in our Christian walk, for instance we learnt it is God’s means of transformation and that we must maintain a positive attitude towards the word as all scripture is backed by God’s authority. We also learnt that it’s from the word of God we get our Christian doctrines, and such doctrines comes atimes with reproof or rebuke. Today we proceed by looking at another ministry of the word which is for correction.
As believers, when we come in contact with the word, in some cases we encounter an actual rebuke but in some other cases it’s a correction, the word correction in greek is actually straighten –up. The word of God atimes straighten us up. We may be doing that which is right but not in a proper way, for instance in 1 Corithians 12, we see a record of Paul correcting the Church at Corinth concerning gifts of the Spirit and especially how to use the gift of tongues profitably.
In our individual lives we learnt doctines in our local churches, such doctrines guides and reproofs us, as we respond we may need some further correction in attitude and intensity. A typical example is soul winning, a believer that rarely win souls gets rebuked when he is confronted with the doctrine of soul winning, in trying to obey some may do so wrongly and could be corrected accordingly. So from that example, we see a progression from doctrines we get rebuked when necessary and from such rebukes, we also get corrected. Such continuous correction leads to our perfection and we need to realize that God corrects us because he loves us. Happy new month.
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