“YOU MAY DO WHAT IS RIGHT!”

 2 Corinthians 13:5-10                    (ESV)

“[5] Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. TEST YOURSELVES. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that JESUS CHRIST is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test! [6] I hope you will find out that we have not failed the test. [7] But we pray to GOD that you may not do wrong—not that we may appear to have met the test, but that “YOU MAY DO WHAT IS RIGHT”, though we may seem to have failed. [8] For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the truth. [9] For we are glad when we are weak and you are strong. Your restoration is what we pray for. [10] For this reason I write these things while I am away from you, that when I come I may not have to be severe in my use of the authority that the LORD has given me for building up and NOT for tearing down.”

Although this “letter” was addressed to “The CHURCH of GOD, that is at Corinth..” (2 Corinthians 1:1), it was placed in the Bible by ordination of the HOLY SPIRIT to be used by GOD and for HIS GLORY! (2 Timothy 3:16-17!). GOD has CHOSEN to use HIS WORD to DRAW certain people who have been CHOSEN since “before the foundation of the world” (Ephesians 1:4)!!!  Yes, ALMIGHTY GOD CHOSE me, knowing that I would be a reprobate, that would stray like a lost lamb from HIM, simply to display that HE saves THE WORST OF SINNERS (1 Timothy 1:15)!!!  

JESUS did not save me for me to wallow in my ineptness.  HE saved me to deliver me into a LIFE where “YOU MAY DO WHAT IS RIGHT”!!!  We are to EXAMINE YOURSELVES constantly in order to keep WALK PRECISELY where HE desires for us to be!  The road will not always be as smooth surface without curves or hills and valleys.  Doing everything you can to make sure “YOU MAY DO WHAT IS RIGHT”, though we may seem to have failed, is something that will provide GREAT DIVIDENDS in the end!!!