September 20—Addiction
The word for today is addiction.
“He will die for lack of discipline, led astray by his own great folly” (Prov. 5:23).
“He who ignores discipline comes to poverty and shame, but whoever heeds correction is honored” (Prov. 13:18).
“Stern discipline awaits him who leaves the path; he who hates correction will die” (Prov. 15:10).
“He who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever heeds correction gains understanding” (Prov. 15:32).
“Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit” (Rom. 15:13).
“All things are lawful for me, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by anything” (1 Cor. 6:12).
“Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body” (1 Cor. 6:19-20).
“Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, that I might not cause my brother to stumble” (1 Cor. 8:13).
“But I buffet my body and make it my slave, lest possibly, after I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified” (1 Cor. 9:27).
Prayer: Lord, Paul’s words to the Philippians express my heart today: “according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I shall not be put to shame in anything, but that with all boldness, Christ shall even now, as always, be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death.”
See also: John 5:30, 15:4-5; Rom. 14:21, 15:5; Gal. 5:22-23
