Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Keep Yourselves

“Kept by the power of God” (1 Peter 1:5).

We often hear the reminder that we can’t keep ourselves, and while this is certainly true according to today’s text, yet there are some things that we are to keep ourselves in and from as believers. For instance:

“Keep yourselves in the love of God” (Jude 21).

We need to always walk and live in the sunshine of God’s wonderful, unchanging love.

“Keep thyself pure” (1 Timothy 5:22).

We need to keep ourselves from those things that defile our minds, our affections, and our bodies.

“Little children, keep yourselves from idols” (1 John 5:21).

We need to keep ourselves from allowing anything to displace Christ in our lives. He should always have the first place.

Christianity takes constant care and watchfulness. We have a powerful enemy who does not want us to enjoy of God’s wonderful love, and who wants us to mar our testimony and our joy by sin and distraction.