Thursday, October 25, 2018

DAILY READINGS: 1 Chronicles 3:1-4:23; Ezekiel 5:1-6:14; John 1:1-18

I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them? Song of Solomon 5:3 

Having “put off the old man with his deeds” (Col. 3:9), “How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?” (Rom. 6:2). The desire and provision to live a holy life has been implanted within us, yet we each
feel the flesh’s resistance to being in submission to the Spirit. May we take time to be holy each day, by feeding the new man and starving the old; providing for one, but not the other. —Rick Morse

O Lord I seek a holy rest,
A victory over sin;
I seek that Thou alone shouldst reign,
O’er all without, within. —Evan Henry Hopkins