Something I try
to do on a daily basis I called "scriptural contemplation". I find two or three scriptures that may have
a similar theme or connect in a certain way, and then each day during the week
I read them together and contemplate or think on them, in expectancy of what
the Spirit would want to accentuate. Perhaps you are already doing something
similar, or would like to use the following example to start with:
“For the
love of Messiah compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all,
then all died; and He died
for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him
who died for them and rose again. Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we
have known Messiah according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Messiah, he is a new creation; old things have
passed away; behold, all things have become new” (2 Corinthians 5:14-17).
“For if we
have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall
be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old man
was crucified with Him, that the body
of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. For he who has died has been
freed from sin. Now if we
died with Messiah, we believe that we shall also live with Him, knowing that Messiah, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no
longer has dominion over Him. For the death that He died, He died
to sin once for all; but the life that
He lives, He lives to Elohim. Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to Elohim
in Messiah Yeshua our Master. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in
its lusts. And do not
present your members as instruments
of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to Elohim as being alive from
the dead, and your members as instruments
of righteousness to Elohim” (Romans 6:5-13).
“Therefore, brethren, by the mercies of Elohim,
present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to Elohim, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this
world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what
is that good and acceptable and perfect
will of Elohim” (Romans 12:1-2).
Have a great week!
Ephraim
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