Good day!
I’m Duane Matz and this is Today’s Living Word.
Ps 141:5
Let the righteous strike me; It shall be a kindness. And let him rebuke me; It
shall be as excellent oil; Let my head not refuse it.
This
verse can be summed up in two words “Be correctable.”
It’s
very easy for us to think, we have arrived at that point in our lives where no
further correction is needed. We’ve got all of our ducks in a spiritual row. Now
it’s just a matter of coasting home.
Oh,
you must be dead then right? Because the truth is you and I will always need
God’s Word and the Holy Spirit for on course correction in this life.
By
God’s grace, I have been called to preach
and teach His Word…and by that, I mean all of it. Law and Gospel!
I
sincerely want to be in a place where I don’t have to tiptoe around His
commands, with words that barely graze the mark and tend to lump His commands
into vague inoffensive generalities.
I
want to be used by the Holy Spirit to boldly and confidently say “Thus saith
the Lord,” because, “It is a kindness” to call out specific sins! It is liberating
truth to those who are ready to receive it.
Because
when they receive it, they are cut to the heart, and are ready to come to the
cross for forgiveness.
May
we take heart from the first sermon that Peter preached on the day of
Pentecost. He was explicit in calling out their sin. He charged them with
crucifying the Son of God!
Maybe
we need to stop tippy toeing around the sin of abortion! I quote Dr. Lamb, the
former executive director of Lutherans for Life, he said, “Abortion kills
little girls and little boys in a
terrible way.”
It
is a kindness to speak that truth, but it is even kinder to assure you that
there is no sin that Jesus did not pay for on the cross. Still another kindness
comes from receiving the words of 1Jo 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is
faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all
unrighteousness.
Holy
Spirit, help us all to be correctable.
I’m Duane
Matz and that’s Today’s Living Word
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