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Be willing to change (3)
Word for Today written by Bob and Debby Gass
Saturday 19th July 2025
'Search me, O God, and know my heart.' Psalm 139:23 NKJV
Change must happen inside you before it can happen around you. In an old Peanuts comic strip, Lucy tells Charlie Brown she would like to change the world. So, Charlie asks her, 'Where would you start?' In typical Lucy fashion, she replies, 'I would start with you.' Think about it: when we have marital problems, we sometimes pray, 'Lord, help my spouse to change!' But maybe things will improve when you're willing to pray, 'Lord, help me to change!'
Changing the atmosphere and dynamics in your home usually starts with changing your own actions and reactions. The Bible says, 'Be tender-hearted, and keep a humble attitude...Don't retaliate...pay them back with a blessing...[and] God...will grant you his blessing' (1 Peter 3:8-9 NLT). When we don't like something, we want everybody - except us - to change! The truth is, we're resistant to change. In The Secret Garden, novelist Frances Hodgson Burnett puts it like this: 'At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, and then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done - then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.'
The psalmist prayed, 'Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my anxieties; and see if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting' (Psalm 139:23-24 NKJV). As you begin to change for the better, others will notice and react to you accordingly. So, make this your prayer today: 'Lord, let the change I seek begin in me!'
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Be willing to change (2)
Word for Today written by Bob and Debby Gass
Friday 18th July 2025
'I press on to possess that perfection.' Philippians 3:12 NLT
You must be willing to pay the price for change. Dramatist and screenwriter Sidney Howard remarked, 'One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.' Change always costs you, if not in money, then in time, creativity or energy. In fact, if it doesn't cost you anything, chances are it's not real change! As you consider how to make the changes needed in your life in order to improve and grow, it's important to count the cost of changing compared to the cost of remaining the same. That means you must do your homework. Change brings growth. But it can also bring grief, especially when it means letting some things go in order to embrace others. What will the changes you desire really cost?
Paul wrote: 'Everything else is worthless when compared with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have discarded everything else, counting it all as garbage, so that I could gain Christ and become one with him...I want to know Christ and experience the mighty power that raised him from the dead. I want to suffer with him, sharing in his death, so that one way or another I will experience the resurrection from the dead! I don't mean to say that I have already achieved these things or that I have already reached perfection. But I press on to possess that perfection for which Christ Jesus first possessed me' (Philippians 3:8-12 NLT).
How badly do you want to change - and are you willing to pay the price?
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A desire transplant
Word for Today written by Bob and Debby Gass
Wednesday 16th July 2025
'Passion for God's house will consume me.' John 2:17 NLT
Try to imagine the fire in the eyes of Jesus and the flex of his muscles as he turned over the tables of the money changers in the temple. And he did it wielding a whip he made himself. 'Then his disciples remembered this prophecy from the Scriptures: "Passion for God's house will consume me"' (John 2:17 NLT). Jesus was the wisest and kindest person who ever lived. Additionally, he was the most passionate. And those who follow him ought to be the most passionate people on earth.
C.S. Lewis said, 'We are half-hearted creatures fooling around with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us.' A pastor adds: 'Sin is a waste of energy...And it's a double waste. After you waste your energy on things like lust and pride and anger, then you must waste even more energy on things like guilt and shame and regret. Nothing is more de-energising than sin, but by the same token, nothing is more re-energising than obedience. It's pure energy.'
The word enthusiasm comes from two Greek words: en and theos, meaning 'in God'. And the closer you get to God, the more passion you develop about the things of God. 'Delight yourself also in the Lord, and he shall give you the desires of your heart' (Psalm 37:4 NKJV). You're supposed to crucify your carnal desires daily. But God doesn't do away with your capacity for desire; he sanctifies and redirects it. When you 'delight yourself in the Lord', you get a 'desire transplant'.
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Free from jealousy
Word for Today written by Bob and Debby Gass
Tuesday 15th July 2025
'If you are bitterly jealous...don't brag.' James 3:14 GWT
The Bible says, 'People are slaves to whatever has mastered them' (2 Peter 2:19 NIV). And that's especially true of jealousy. Chuck Swindoll writes: 'Jealousy and envy are often used interchangeably, but there's a difference. Envy begins with empty hands; it mourns what it doesn't have...Jealousy begins with full hands; it's threatened by the pain of losing what you have to someone else despite your efforts to hold on to it...This was Cain's sin. He was jealous of Abel. He resented God's acceptance of his brother, and not until Abel's blood poured over Cain's cruel hands did jealousy subside. Solomon might well have written the epitaph for Abel's tombstone: "Jealousy is [cruel] as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire" (see Song of Solomon 8:6). Anyone who has experienced deliverance from this hellish giant knows too well how jealousy can decimate a friendship, dissolve a romance, destroy a marriage, shoot tension through the ranks of professionals, nullify unity on a team, ruin a church, separate preachers, foster competition among the choir, bring bitterness and finger-pointing among talented instrumentalists and capable singers. Jealousy questions motives and deplores another's success.' The Bible says, 'If your heart is full of bitter jealousy...don't... cover up the truth' (James 3:14 CEV). Instead, determine that by the grace of God, you're going to break free from its control.
Swindoll adds: 'I lived many years obeying [jealousy's] commands. It was gross agony. Finally, I realised I didn't have to live in darkness. I slew the giant and crawled out...the releasing sunlight of freedom captured my heart. The air was so fresh and clean. Oh, the difference it has made! It's utter delight. Ask my wife.'
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A biblical perspective
Word for Today written by Bob and Debby Gass
Monday 14th July 2025
'The Scriptures give us hope and encouragement.' Romans 15:4 NLT
There's a sweet story about a girl who left home and went away to university. After her first term, she emailed her mother, saying, 'I think it's time I brought you up to date on what's going on in my life. Shortly after I arrived at university, I got bored with dormitory life and stole fifty pounds from my roommate's purse. With the money, I rented a motorbike, which I crashed into a telephone pole a few streets from the dorm. I broke my leg in the accident and am unable to attend lectures, so I'm coming home to live with you and dad.' After hitting 'send', she immediately sent a second email: 'Mum, I was only joking. I didn't steal any money, or rent a motorbike, or hit a telephone pole, or break my leg. And I won't be coming home to live with you and dad either. However, I am getting a D in mathematics and an F in literature, and I wanted you to keep my grades in proper perspective!'
And, having a biblical perspective on life's challenges can lift you out of discouragement and despair. Paul said, 'Everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures...we might have hope' (Romans 15:4 NIV).
For every problem you face, God's word has a principle to be practised or a promise to be claimed. Avoid despair: get into God's word and get it into you.
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What is righteousness?
Word for Today written by Bob and Debby Gass
Sunday 13th July 2025
'Faith without works is dead.' James 2:26 NKJV
Could it be that the negative perception many people have of the Church stems from a negative portrayal of the Christian faith the Church has given? And could it be that this negative portrayal stems from Christians' skewed view of righteousness? We falsely view righteousness as 'doing nothing wrong': 'Don't do this or that, and you're okay.' The problem with this view is that we can do nothing wrong and still not do the right thing; the thing God is calling us to do.
Righteousness means more than 'doing nothing wrong'. Do you really think God's ultimate dream for us is to do nothing wrong? You love it when your children make a difficult decision not to do something wrong. But what brings you greater joy is seeing them develop their gifts and maximise their potential. That's what God wants for each of us! The Bible teaches two kinds of sin: the sin of commission, which is doing something we shouldn't do, and the sin of omission, which is all the things we could and should do to advance God's Kingdom but didn't do.
A pastor writes: 'In God's economy, breaking even is a total loss. Isn't that the lesson of the parable of the talents? The servant with one talent broke even...[and] Jesus called him a "wicked and lazy servant" (Matthew 25:26 NKJV). The greatest risk is taking no risks...Righteousness is using all our God-given gifts to their full God-given potential. Love doesn't play it safe; it takes risks. Love doesn't make excuses; it takes responsibility. Love doesn't see problems; it seizes opportunities to step up and step in.'
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