Category: Bible Reading & Meditation

“Slaves, obey your human masters with the reverence, the awe, and the sincerity you owe to Christ.” –Ephesians 6:5 Everyone should submit to each other (Eph 5:21). Wives should submit to husbands (Eph 5:22), children to parents (Eph 6:1), and employees to employers (Eph 6:5). Those in authority should submit to the Lord (see Eph 6:4, 9). The Lord wants to create an entire culture of submission. If we accept God’s call to be submissive in circumstance after circumstance, we will open ourselves to being filled with the Spirit. The beginning of this teaching on submission in Ephesians is verse...

“As for lewd conduct or promiscuousness or lust of any sort, let them not even be mentioned among you; your holiness forbids this.” –Ephesians 5:3 As long as they don’t commit adultery or fornication, many people feel they have done all right. Yet the Bible tells us to be pure as Jesus is pure (1 Jn 3:3), not even to look lustfully (Mt 5:28) or mention sexual impurity. So much for dirty jokes and the vast majority of TV programs and commercials. The Lord considers our bodies temples of the Holy Spirit. He’s the Owner of our bodies, including our...

” ‘Rabboni,’ the blind man said, ‘I want to see.’ Jesus said in reply, ‘Be on your way! Your faith has healed you.’ Immediately he received his sight and started to follow Him up the road.” –Mark 10:51-52 To live God’s Word (see Jas 1:22), we must pray God’s Word. I invite you to pray a novena to be free from spiritual blindness. For nine days, pray: “I want to see” (Mk 10:51). Most Christians believe that other people, including their spouses, family members, neighbors, and fellow workers, need to see much better spiritually. The sin, injustice, abortion, racism, and...

“Be children no longer.” –Ephesians 4:14 We Christians are called to be child-like, not childish (1 Cor 14:20). Being childish means being “tossed here and there, carried about by every wind of doctrine that originates in human trickery and skill in proposing error” (Eph 4:14). It means being manipulated and enslaved. The way to freedom from childishness is to profess the truth in love (Eph 4:15). The truth will set us free (Jn 8:32) and have us “grow to the full maturity of Christ the Head” (Eph 4:15). We grow up and grow out of childishness by obeying apostles, prophets,...