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But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness Gal 5:22 |
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Friend,
If you do not already have a habit of gathering daily manna the first thing in the morning (we can look at the example given to us in Exodus 16 and find the pattern for collecting daily manna), make it a habit. Establish your life and your schedule to allow you the necessary time to do your daily collection first thing every morning to give you the strength to make it through the day. And remember that today’s manna will not be sufficient for tomorrow; tomorrow’s manna must be collected tomorrow morning. Sunday, May 28, 2017
Today's Passage : Subject:That Which Will Not Perish Bible Verse:1 Peter 1:22-25 (ESV) "Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God; for “All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls, but the word of the Lord remains forever.”" Message:
This passage begins with another of Peter's long sentences. It looks impenetrable, but what he is saying is, actually, not hard to understand.
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e have “purified our souls by obedience to the truth.” The souls of all have been corrupted by life. By obeying Christ's teaching, by believing in Him, we have purified our souls of this corruption. Christ's truth includes a teaching that we should love one another with a sincere “brotherly” love.
Since the truth we have followed tells us to share this form of love, it is imperative that we build this love with other Christians. We cannot pretend, either. It must be sincere. We cannot fake it, acting nice to someone we can't stand, smiling while we are boiling inside. We must examine our thoughts, pray where we feel anger or judgment towards another, ask the Holy Spirit to help us.
Why? It is part of our rebirth in the spirit. We are a new person when we are baptized and/or accept Christ fully.
Our old self existed entirely as a perishable body and we made decisions based solely on animal drives and selfishness. But the Word of God is living, not dead. Jesus is alive; He defeated death. And furthermore, Christ and his teachings abide: that is, they have a permanent home with us, inside us, in the person of the Holy Spirit.
Peter calls the source of our bodies “perishable seed”, which is easy enough to understand. But when we are reborn, our selves and our souls have another existence created by the imperishable seed of God's word. Our body stays alive for a short while after this transformation — maybe for 100 years, maybe for a day, but a short while in terms of a universe that is 10 billion years old. During this time, our earthly body continues to demand that its needs and desires be met, which can lead us to sin.
Peter elaborates a little on the impermanence of the perishable seed, by quoting a passage from Isaiah. The analogy of human life to grass appears many times in the Bible. It helps us to understand, because the grass of the pastures lives for just one year — think of “grass” as wheat — and we can see the constant death and rebirth of humanity much clearer after watching wheat grow and die for a few years.
Meditation : Prayer : The God of peace, who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus Christ, the great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant; Make me perfect in every good work to do your will, working in me that which is well pleasing in your sight; through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever.. Amen. |
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