Struthers Memorial Church
  • Home
  • About
    • Background
    • What we believe
    • Youth
    • Cedars School of Excellence
    • Privacy Notice
    • Giving
  • New Year Word
  • Churches
    • Scotland >
      • Greenock
      • Gourock
      • Falkirk
      • Glasgow
      • Edinburgh
      • Cumbernauld
      • Newmains
      • Port Glasgow
    • Wales
    • England >
      • Aylesbury, London
  • Bookshops
  • Contact
  • New Year Word

Thought for the Week

The Importance of ‘ALL’

24/5/2021

0 Comments

 
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. (Proverbs 3:5-6)

Some of the most thrilling episodes in The Bible are when men like Joseph and Daniel show us how to live a life completely devoted to God, with not a hint of a concession. Even in times of temptation and trials, these men stand head and shoulders above many others that we read of. 

So what was their ‘secret’? Quite simply, they decided that they would make no compromises; they would not experiment with what degree of sin they could indulge in before it harmed themselves or others.They trusted God with ‘ALL’ their hearts. They submitted to him in ‘ALL’ their ways’. Not so, Lot! The NLT Study Bible, speaking of Lot, tells us that; “Although he denounced gross evil, Lot preferred Sodom’s sumptuous lifestyle to life in the hills where there was clean living but none of the ‘good life’”.

Lot and his family lived in reasonable comfort in Sodom and Lot held on to his personal belief in God; but finally he could not hold on to both!  It would be one or the other. Peter writes that Lot was tormented by the things that he saw in Sodom and Gomorrah. The  Sodomites were totally unconcerned about their sin but Lot was not.  He understood that his neighbours were living compromised and sinful lives. He understood sin.  As someone once said, “Sodom would have destroyed Lot if the Lord had not destroyed Sodom.”

“However, though he was not wicked himself, he did nothing to remove himself from his evil situation. There is the problem. He lingered. He was willing to coexist with sin.” (John W. Ritenbaugh)

Does this not sound all too familiar? There are areas of sin that Christians today willing co-exist with. Amongst the last words that we read of Jesus speaking as a free man, before his arrest are these,

Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. (Matthew 26:41)


Jesus knew that, like Lot, many of his present and future followers would find it a challenge to submit ‘all’ to God. But that challenge still echoes loud and clear down through the millennia to where we are today.He is still looking for those who will trust Him with ‘all’ their heart. He still calls to us to submit ‘all’ our ways to Him. 

Who will rise to the challenge? Who will refuse to compromise?  God grant, it will be every one of us.

​Pauline Anderson 
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Archives

    March 2023
    February 2023
    January 2023
    December 2022
    November 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

ABOUT US

Background
What we believe
Cedars School
​Policies
​
Privacy Notice

CHURCHES

Scotland
England
Wales

BOOKSHOPS

Greenock
Glasgow

EVENTS

What's on
Fire Conference
New Year Word
Music

CONTACT

Contact us

Picture
Copyright © 2014  Struthers Memorial Church  All rights reserved  
Struthers Memorial Church is a registered Scottish Charity No. SC 006960  |  Struthers Memorial Church is a company limited by guarantee incorporated in Scotland  Company No SC335480  |  Registered Office: 33 West Stewart Street, Greenock, PA15 1SH. 
  • Home
  • About
    • Background
    • What we believe
    • Youth
    • Cedars School of Excellence
    • Privacy Notice
    • Giving
  • New Year Word
  • Churches
    • Scotland >
      • Greenock
      • Gourock
      • Falkirk
      • Glasgow
      • Edinburgh
      • Cumbernauld
      • Newmains
      • Port Glasgow
    • Wales
    • England >
      • Aylesbury, London
  • Bookshops
  • Contact
  • New Year Word