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For I know the plans I have for you,declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Jer 29:11 |
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Dear
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. Monday, May 29, 2017
Today's Passage : Today's Passage : Subject:The Milk of Human Kindness Bible Verse:1 Peter 1:25, 2:1-3 (ESV) "And this word is the good news that was preached to you. So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation — if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. " Message:
he passage begins with the last verse from 1 Peter 1, to remind us of all he had to say about the imperishable Word, Jesus Christ, in the preceding chapter. We have been reborn by our belief in Christ, and in our reborn identity we must love one another like brothers and sisters.
This change is an actual change in who we are. We are not the same people acting differently. And thus we must strive to make our love for one another sincere and true, loving our fellows not just in our faces and words, but also in our hearts.
Look at the list of actions and thoughts that Peter tells us to put away: Malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, slander. These are not characteristics of a baby. They are evils we learn to practice as we grow older, in order to manipulate the world and other people with dishonesty. Of course a baby wants things. He wants milk. He wants pain to go away. But as we grow older, our brain begins to serve these wants and we become devious. Evil comes naturally to us.
We get a second chance when we accept Christ, because we become babies again. But what we want now is to satisfy a spiritual need, which Peter likens to the milk an infant cries for. Our new self, receiving this “spiritual milk” grows into something that, unlike a human baby, will live forever.
If we learn how good this is and truly live in Christ, there is no need for malice, or deceit, etc. We can have all the milk we want; Christ has given us a full inheritance that will completely satisfy every need of our reborn selves. As we grow in the spirit, then, it becomes easier and easier to put aside malice and deceit and envy. For what good can malice do for us, when the milk that fully sustains us is the milk of love and kindness? What is there that we can envy, when we have everything?
Meditation : Prayer : May the love of the Lord Jesus draw us to Himself; May the power of the Lord Jesus strengthen us in his service; May the joy of the Lord Jesus fill our souls. May the blessing of God almighty, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Be among us and remain with us always.. Amen. |
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