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Day By Day — Part 4
3. “For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day” (2 Corinthians 4:16).
We grow old! Every one of us, sooner or later, realizes that the body gets older and weaker. If we have aches and pains with our natural bodies, we know that as we feed the “inward man,” there is a daily renewal of spiritual strength. The more we feed the new life the more we are renewed.
“Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked” (Ephesians 6:16). We need to take the shield of faith to stop the arrows of Satan, and to have the Lord as our resource “day by day.” There is a serious warning concerning Abraham’s nephew, Lot. “For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds” (2 Peter 2:8). There can never be the blessing of the Lord or power to meet the enemy while we are in such a situation as Lot. It is important for a Christian to walk in separation “and to keep himself unspotted from the world” (James 1:27). In this way we will be preserved “day by day.”
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