Heartwork for Wednesday, November 4

Your daily guide, posted Sunday-Thursday by 6am, to take what we are learning from loving it to living it!




Learn It - Romans 6:3-14

3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.
8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

Love It - Testimonies To The Church, Volume 5, p. 513

     “Pure religion has to do with the will. The will is the governing power in the nature of man, bringing all the other faculties under its sway. The will is not the taste or the inclination, but it is the deciding power which works in the children of men unto obedience to God or unto disobedience"

Live It

     Now that we understand more about how God loves us, we are starting to turn the lense of our focus to how we can love each other the way that God loves us.  For today, under the heading of "Who Needs A Better Me", let's write down the names of every individual that we know that we can treat better (even IF they don't do the same).  Family, parents, spouses, children, friends, coworkers , classmates, enemies, and otherwise.  Writing these names will give us a clear understanding that the choices that we begin to make going forward are being made for the sake of these specific and special people in our lives! 

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