Today’s Devotion
Topic: Christian Values & Practices! (Part 6)
Self Assessment (236)
Background: Last week our focus was on PUTTING OF THE OLD SELF. We were reminded that we are no longer to live as the gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. For “they are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more.
Today we want to discover what the NEW SELF ought to be so we can always desire to live and grow in it. Kindly bring the family together, it’s time to study the Word.
Text: Ephesians 4: 20- 24
20 That, however, is not the way of life you learned 21 when you heard about Christ and were taught in Him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus. 22 You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; 23 to be made new in the attitude of your minds; 24 and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness. Amen
Questions
1. What does it mean to say “the old self is being corrupted by its deceitful desires”?
2. How do we put off the old self?
3. According to verse 23, we are “to be made new in the attitude of our minds.” In opinion, what could this mean please?
4. Kindly explain this: “put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.”
5. What have you learnt from today’s discussion?
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