Greetings sisters!
Time is moving on steadily. The last month of the year is here and eternity for each of us is closer. It just makes you reflect on life and how you're spending it, and to make sure you're ready.
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.Psalm 90:12
See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.Ephesians 5:15-17
Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.Colossians 4:5
There is a lot about wisdom and time in those!
There may be a lot we don't like going on in the world and of course much that is plain sin but we are responsible for our own life. We need to focus on ourselves and be aware of hypocrisy and how easy it could be to slip into it. It may be easy to think and worry about what other people are doing but there's nothing we can do about it but instead focus on our own walk with the Lord. Focus on Him of course, but keep our own hearts with all diligence.
I sometimes think about envy and what it really is and looks like. It is clearly a work of the flesh and not of God, and we need to keep ourselves from it too of course.
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.James 3:14-16
For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?1 Corinthians 3:3
For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:2 Corinthians 12:20
There's more scriptures on it to show us it isn't good but it's another thing we want to keep ourselves from and test our hearts for including any subtle forms of it too. The Lord help us be purified and holy unto Him, walking in the fruits of the Spirit from above.
This is a good scripture to encourage us to be diligent.
And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
2 Peter 1:5-10
Yes we must put in effort and indeed fight the good fight of faith.
Keep striving on for truth sisters! Love, peace, mercy, and grace unto you in His name.
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