I’m Duane Matz and
welcome to Today’s Living Word.
Heb 12:12 Therefore
strengthen the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees,
13 and make straight paths for your feet, so
that what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
These two verses deal
with the matter of prayer! The typical posture of prayer is on our knees, (humility
and acknowledgment of the Lordship of Jesus in our lives) with the hands lifted
up to heaven. (I get the picture of the universal sign of acknowledged surrender!)
Don’t forget, whenever
you see the word “therefore” in Scripture, you need to go back a couple of
verses and see what the “therefore” is “there for.”
In this case, we have
just been taken to the woodshed by the stinging pointing out of our sin by the
Holy Spirit. Do we wail away like a freshly spanked child or do we face the
music and do something about our sins?
No! We pray! We take our
sins to the cross, receive God’s forgiveness and with the help of God, seek to live
out corrective action. (Go and sin no more!)
To ignore our sin is to
misplace the issue, it’s like trying to walk with a dislocated hip or knee.
That’s just not going to work! Rather come to God in a spirit of humility and
surrender and confess your sins. It is the pathway to peace!
2Co 7:10 For godly sorrow
produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow
of the world produces death.
I’m Duane Matz and that’s
Today’s Living Word
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