Daily Rhema: GODLINESS IS PROFITABLE

1Timothy 4:8 MKJV
For bodily exercise profits a little, but godliness is profitable to all things, having promise of the present life and of that which is to come.

Godliness is GOD-LIKENESS: being like God. So the more godly you are, the more you will profit in all things.

Our calling as Christians is to become like the Lord Jesus in this life time: like Him in our will: humble (Phil. 2:5-13); in our mind : having the mind of Christ (1Cor. 2:16); in our emotions: having the fruit of the Spirit (Gal. 5:22-24).

Romans 8:29 MKJV
For whom He foreknew, He also predestinated to be conformed to the image of His Son, for Him to be the First-born among many brothers.

Practically, this means that your calling as a Christian is not just to be a doctor, lawyer, economist, educationist, engineer, etc. However, the more like the Lord Jesus you become, the better a doctor, lawyer, economist, educationist, engineer, etc., you will be!

So godliness is profitable for your career, family life, physical health and in fact, all things; so the first thing you should seek in this life is to be godly, and then success in every other thing is certain (Matt. 6:33).

How then do you become godly?

Firstly, by being born-again, and secondly, by growing into the perfection and fullness of Christ. Now, to grow into the perfection and fullness of Christ, you must become a disciple of Christ, one who has learned and practiced the disciplines of the Christ life and graduated, so to speak, therein.

Besides our natural education, we still need to get a spiritual education to become godly in order to profit, or succeed in all things, and so fulfil the fullness of God’s purpose for our lives.

You must be literate in order to read the Bible and have a trained mind, so the Holy Spirit can explain spiritual things to you through the natural things you have learned (Rom. 1:20). Afterwards, your secular education will then be used by God to fulfil His purpose in your life, like He did in the life of Moses (Act. 7:22-23; 37-38) and Paul (Act. 22: 3; Gal. 1:11-16), the two men God used to pen the legal frameworks of the Old and New Testaments.

A spiritual education is vital to receive the revelation knowledge (2Cor. 4:6) of the perfection and fullness of Christ, and then practice this knowledge to obtain the degrees of cleansing perfection (like a Bachelor’s degree); manifesting perfection (like a Masters degree), and permanent perfection (like a Doctorate). Selah!

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