I have been reading “Knowing and Doing the Will of God” for the past three years. The book is a 365 day devotional that is a compilation of exerpts from the works of J.I. Packer. Packer is eloquent, theologically sound, and pastoral in his writings, and it shows in this work. He is not campy or shallow as some devotionals are apt to be. Everyday, I am encouraged to be more faithful, and built up in my knowledge and love for God. Buy a copy, and read it for yourself. I promise that you will be built up by Packer’s work as well.
Read today’s devotion for yourself:
He quotes Romans 1:16 and then says:
No heart is too hard for the grace of God. You yourself, since you became a Christian, have been learning constantly how corrupt and deceitful and perverse your own heart is. Before you became a Christian, your heart was worse; yet Christ has saved you, and that should be enough to convince you that he can save anyone. So persevere in presenting Christ to unconverted people as you find opportunity. You are not on a fool’s errand. You are not wasting either your time or theirs. You have no reason to be ashamed of your message, or half-hearted and apologetic delivering it. You have every reason to be bold, and free, and natural, and hopeful of success. For God can give his truth an effectiveness that you and I cannot give it. God can make his truth triumphant to the conversion of the most seemingly hardened unbeliever. You and I will never write off anyone as hopeless and beyound the reach of God if we believe in the sovereignty of his grace.
Taken from Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God p118.
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