2 DEC 22 Friday SOAPS Devotional

 2 DEC 22 Friday SOAPS Devotional

(Scripture, Observation, Apply, Pray, Share)

Reading Plan: Psalm 16, 17; Isa. 3:8-15; 1 Thes. 4:1-12; Luke 20:41-21:4

The first week of Advent

Are you fulfilling your purpose?

S- For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.  For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality, that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God. 1 Thes. 4:2-5

O- Until Jesus returns, we have much to live for and a purpose to fulfill.  Our lives can be pleasing to the Lord.  Paul encourages this church to live a life of holiness, honor, and self-control.  This will bring us happiness, and fulfillment, and testifies to God’s presence in our lives.  He also warns against sexual immorality which damns every society in history, ours included.

A- I will stay the course of a life pleasing to God.  I will seek and strive for a life marked by holiness, honor, and self-control.

P- Lord God, we see in every society across our world plagued with sin and strife.  You are our path to salvation and hope in order to free us from the chains of sins and death.  Help us, Lord, not to return to the sins that condemn us to hell but to embrace a life of holiness, honor, and self-control.  May this life we live be pleasing to you.  Amen.

S- M, J