June 27 Devotional: AW Tozer
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Evening Renewal
The tablets were the work of God; the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets. EXODUS 32:16
Christianity is the true worship and service of the true God, humankind's Creator and Redeemer. It is a religion that rests on revelation: nobody would know the truth about God, or be able to relate to him in a personal way, had not God first acted to make himself known. But God has so acted, and the sixty-six books of the Bible, thirty-nine written before Christ came and twenty-seven after, are together the record, interpretation, expression, and embodiment of his self-disclosure. God and godliness are the Bible's uniting themes.Read more: Revelation: Scripture is the Word of God by JI Packer
A Right Judgment in All Things
Acts 2.1-21; John 15.26-27; 16.4b-15
Read more: Blown Out Onto the Street: Pentecost, by NT Wright
The Holy Spirit is given to all Christians to transform them by his teaching, making them into God-focused thinkers and equipping them to discern his will and make decisions accordingly. They do this by rational reflection on their life-situation, helped by wise and godly advice, within the parameters that the Word of God establishes. The idea that the superior path in matters of guidance is to wait passively before God for direct promptings to action to come into one's mind is a mistake. So is the superstitious notion that failure to discern the specifics of God's vocational guidance sentences one irrevocably to a second-best life, with no restoration possible.