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Daily Bread - June 18, 2026 (The Fifth Day - Genesis 1:20-23)
1 Corinthians 6:20 - You were bought with a price. Therefore, glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.
The Witness of Our Lives Belonging to God
We cannot allow any other activity to dwarf our commitment to the development of our relationship with the Lord and living consecrated to His ways. Friendship with the world and the peer pressure to conform to those who are not walking with God must be guarded against (2 Corinthians 6:14). Is it wrong to be involved in enjoying the everyday life God has given in sports, and personal goals, and interests? No, so long as the more needful things of always being a witness of the New Life through our conduct and behavior are more important (Colossians 3:17).
Is it wrong for a young man or woman to desire to be married and have a family? No, marriage and family are godly and part of the will and plan of God, but the marriage relationship has to be a desire consecrated to God’s will and direction for it to be right. In our consecration to living this new life in Christ, can a husband and wife still live for the interest of each other and care for the things belonging to the service of the needs of their family? Yes, but it should all be done in the context of that which is godly, and pursuing the Divine will and plan of God. Can a man still go to work, or pursue a career to provide for the needs of the things he is responsible for? Yes, but once again, this has to be in perspective to the balance Jesus gave in putting the things of the Kingdom first and above all else (Matthew 6:19-34).
God redeemed us and purchased us with His Own blood (Colossians 1:12-14; 1 Peter 1:18-19). We have become part of His family and the household of faith (Ephesians 3:14-15; Galatians 6:10). We are to live as the witnesses of a new kind of life. We are those that have been made alive in Christ Jesus, so that we may show what the Heavenly Life is all about (Romans 6:11-23, 14:17; Ephesians 4:24; 1 Peter 2:9). There must be a great contrast between the way we live and the way people of the world conduct themselves. The contrast should be as great as the light of noonday is from the darkest of nights. We must be ever more as different as Noah and His family were from the people of the generation in which they lived (Genesis 6:5-12, 7:1). We must be as distinctly different as the people of God are from the children of the devil (1 John 3:1-10). We are to live our lives in the beauty of holiness and the splendor of His glory (Psalms 29:2, 96:9, 91:1). We are God’s boast, His children, His heirs, and His description of a better life – the life He intends for men to live for all Eternity!
Blessings,
Pastor Mark Spitsbergen
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