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What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
We shouldn't think our situation is something that we have gotten for ourselves by some greatness of our own. If the Lord made heaven, earth, space, and all of the creatures, and if He made all elementary materials and even our own lives, then we would have to be fools to think that we could be, have, or accomplish, anything, without Him.
I'll keep a humble perspective about my job.
Therefore if any man [be] in Christ, [he is] a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
Sometimes, we can be reminded of our past, and start to worry that we still have the problems that we have already confessed and repented of. It is an amazing encouragement that the Lord has completely transformed us, including healing the old sinful desires of our heart.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us [our] sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
In this case, it says that He will ...cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
I'll take comfort in the fact that the Lord has cleansed me from, the unrighteous motivations that I have repented from in the past.
For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God;
We should look at reaching out to people, in Christ, as a great joy, not as a chore. We should greatly look forward to going out to people and helping them with their spiritual condition.
Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith?
I'll pick a couple of people that I'm going out to, to pray for their spiritual condition all the time.
Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men...(v12a)
And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be [ye] warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what [doth it] profit?
We shouldn't just pray for things and not do anything about them. If there's obviously something that needs done in a situation, and we are able to do it, then our prayer should be accompanied by action.
This made me think of how, sometimes, we pray for the Lord to help us do the right thing (like getting up on time in the morning). But then, when it is time to make the decision whether to do the right thing, sometimes we don't even try very hard, (if at all), to do it. That does not make sense. If we are going to pray to ask the Lord for His help to do something, then we also need to put our heart into getting that thing done.
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