Spring has finally arrived and we are fast approaching the 2013 Family Freedom Walk on Saturday, May 11th. Last year the Lord brought in over $61,000 which absolutely stunned us. We would like to invite you to be a part of what God does this year through the walk. If you can join us that day, call today to register and start getting sponsors (732.350.1187). If you can’t walk with us, please consider being a sponsor. All the net proceeds go to support the Addiction Recovery Ministries to help restore lives, marriages and families from the devastation of addiction.
This year our staff is having a friendly competition between the men and the women so it would be great if all our Victory Call readers would sponsor the women’s team for $25.00 but even $5 or $10 will make a difference. This link will take you directly to our webpage if you would give on-line. Family Freedom Walk Support or if you prefer you may mail a check to America’s Keswick 601 Route 530 Whiting, NJ 08759 in either case please designate your gift to FFW: Women’s team.
Thank you so much for your support. We appreciate you.
Blessings,
The Victory Call writers
…choose this day whom you will serve… (Joshua 24:15 ESV)
Billy Sunday, evangelist of yesteryear, wrote, “One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream puff, instead of a rattlesnake.” Does not that statement still pertain today in the 21st century?
What once was considered, in my childhood, a particular sin, is now to be enjoyed, even embraced. And I’m thinking of the freedom of the homosexual community to practice – whatever!
What once was considered a private sin is now considered a “cream puff” to be enjoyed. And I’m thinking of sexual indulgence outside of one’s marriage, and of sexual indulgence if single.
What once was considered a particularly egregious sin against a family member, a friend, a neighbor, is not now so considered. And I’m thinking of the widely accepted practice of lying.
Today everything is relative. What may be true for you is not true for me. What may be sin for me is not sin for you. It depends on the circumstances.
With God, however, there is no middle ground, no relativity regarding morals, no equivocating regarding sin. Even Paul, God’s specially chosen messenger, struggled from time to time with making correct choices. He wrote, I do not do the good things I want to do, but I do the bad things I do not want to do (Romans 7:19 NCV). Can you identify?
What a miserable man I am! (v. 24a) continued Paul, wondering how to get victory over this temptation to sin. In the end, however, Paul realized the ability to gain victory came from outside himself, and he gratefully exclaimed, …thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 15:57).
The Holy Spirit, who resides within the Christian’s heart, gives divine help to overcome temptation to sin. It is comforting, it is strengthening, to be able to acknowledge that the ever-present help we need is “closer than hands or feet.” Again, thanks be to God!
No two images are more disparate than that of a delicious cream puff and that of a dangerous rattlesnake. Do not be caught in mistaking one for the other! And you won’t, if you keep yourself close to the Lord, your sure Defense against making wrong choices.
Midge Ruth
Writer for “Real Victory for Real Life”
365 Devotional Thoughts in the Spirit of America’s Keswick
VOLUME 2
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