Going through today's passages, it is hard for us to understand the Lord's ways which at times are against our ways. Herod did away with John the Baptist for John had been saying to him: "It it not lawful for you to have her". In other words he was letting him know that what he was doing was not pleasant to God. Sometimes in our own lives we do not like to hear the warnings of God.
The things that defile a man, as the Lord says in Matthews 15:18, are "But the things that come out the mouth come from the heart, and these make a man 'unclean'. For out of the heart come out evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander".
Simon Peter had been short of the glory of God as well as we all are, but he confessed from his heart: "You are the Christ, the son of the living God."
We are all short of the glory of God, but through Jesus Christ, we can find the way to be not only clean but saved. It is in Jesus Christ that we are saved. Praise God!
Armando Perdomo
February 20
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We've all fallen short of the glory and I think we need to realize that bc a lot of the world can see us as elitist or better than they are bc of such a powerful dedication, but we're in all in the same boat and are all searching. We need to remember that when we talk to folks about Jesus bc it's not come be like me, it's come follow him together.
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