Faithful Examination
Mexico Devotions – Your life in Christ – Faithful Examination – View Original PDF
Yesterday we looked at Christ’s call to us as believers to be slaves. In our next three devotions we’re going to look at areas of faith. Today we will look at the faith which Paul & John address in letters to the early church.
2 Corinthians 13:5 Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?–unless indeed you fail to meet the test!
Examining your faith – (Matthew Henry’s Commentary)
What the apostle here says about the duty of the Corinthians to examine themselves, etc., is applicable as the great duty of all who call themselves Christians, to examine themselves concerning their spiritual state. We should examine whether we are in the faith, because it is a matter in which we may be easily deceived, and wherein a deceit is highly dangerous: we are therefore concerned to prove our own selves, to put the question to our own souls, whether Christ be in us, or not; and Christ is in us, except we be reprobates: so that either we are true Christians or we are great cheats; and what a reproachful thing is it for a man not to know himself, not to know his own mind!
Read: ~ 1 John 2:1-11
Questions:
- What are some ways we can examine ourselves to see if we are in the faith?
- Do you feel that the style or clothes you wear, or how you wear them, the music you listen to, the words you use when your with you’re friends, are way’s you can “examine yourself” in the faith? Why or why not?
- Have you personally ever taken the time to examine your faith to see if it is true? Take a few moments now to examine your own faith. Do you see some areas that need to change? List a few below.
- John gives us a few ways to know we have come to know Christ, list at least two.
- What commandments has Christ given us?
Faith In Action:
Question3 – If you feel comfortable in sharing these areas with someone, ask them to pray about each area for you each day for the rest of this trip. Take time to pray yourself and commit these areas to Christ.
Prayer Points:
My Faith
Reveal My Heart
Safety in Mexico
Travel
Servants Heart
