WELS: Today's Devotion - Impartial – January 2, 2018

View this email in your browser Impartial – January 2, 2018 Since you call on a Father who judges each man's work impartially, live your lives as strangers here in reverent fear. 1 Peter 1:17 Impartial Daily Devotion – January 2, 2018 Devotion based on 1 Peter 1:17 See series: Devotions Are you a "Christian-By-Association"? In other words, do you consider yourself a Christian because you can point to your familiarity with the trappings of Christianity? Perhaps you can rattle off happy memories of going to Sunday School or a Christian Day School. Perhaps you can recall what it was like to be in a children's Christmas program on Christmas Eve. Perhaps your parents and grandparents were active in church life and you've inherited some family connections with various pastors and teachers. If that's all you've gotten out of your exposure to Christianity, however, you've got nothing. God is impartial. It does not matter to God how active your parents or grandparents were at church. It does not matter to God how many songs you sang in Christmas Eve services of your childhood. It does not matter to God how many Christian pastors and teachers you know by name. If you or I think God will accept us because we're familiar with some trappings of Christianity, then we are not hearing him. And a moment is coming when we'll be in for a real shock. What matters to God is our relationship with Jesus. What matters to God is our trust in Christ as our Savior from sin. What matters to God is the forgiveness we possess through faith in Jesus' perfect life and death in our place. What matters to God is that my personal eyes of faith are fixed upon his Son. No more pretending. Only Jesus. He alone makes all the difference in the world. Your world too. Prayer: Heavenly Father, forgive me for all the times I have not focused on your Son. Wash me in his blood. Renew my zeal for the good news of salvation through Jesus. Amen. Daily Devotions are brought to you by WELS and www.WhatAboutJesus.com. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica, Inc. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. Print Friendly Share Tweet Devotions | Subscription Help   Copyright © 2018 Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in at our website or subscribed to one of our newsletters. Unsubscribe  - CHANGE EMAIL SETTINGS Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod N16W23377 Stone Ridge Drive Waukesha, WI 53188 Add us to your address book Note: Recipients of this forwarded e-mail will be able to access your subscription preferences.