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 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, June 12, 2022
Today's Passage : Today's Passage :The World Does Not Know Christ
Bible Verse:1 John 3:1-3 (ESV)
"See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and that is what we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we will be has not yet been revealed. What we do know is this: when he is revealed, we will be like him, for we will see him as he is. And all who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure."
Message:
Today’s reading is related to the “host of the redeemed” passage in Revelation 7. There, John the Divine gave us a picture of what it would be like when Christ comes again. We will wear snowy white, to symbolize the perfection and sinlessness in our souls, because we have washed our clothes in the “miracle detergent” of Christ’s forgiveness. We will “hunger no more, and thirst no more; . . . and God will wipe away every tear from [our] eyes”. (Revelation 7:15-17)
O
ur reading from 1 John was probably written by the same John who wrote Revelation (although some scholars think otherwise). Here, he tells us why the world can be so hard on us. The world does not “know” us, because it does not know Him. How can we not be comforted? If somebody is critical of God Himself, who made them and is perfect, why would we expect them to like us? Their criticism of us is warped, because they are warped. If we seek to praise of men, then, we must necessarily warp ourselves to their blindness.
Once we have repented our sin and truly accepted Christ, with all our heart, we become the children of God. It is the best thing possible, for we are assured that our existence will become one free of pain, an existence of perfect happiness and joy. But we cannot expect all the world to understand this; it was the world, after all, which rejected Christ and killed him. Evil and stupidity have been powerful in the world ever since God gave us free will.
And if the world did not recognize Christ for who he was, how can we expect that it will recognize us for who we are? Is the world a mess? Yes, of course it is. But knowing that judgment will come, and that we will stand before Christ in perfect knowledge, as his children, is the hope that sustains us through all the tribulations and foolishness of the world.
And in the meantime, we must follow the advice of Peter, in the great sermon he gave at Pentecost: “Save yourselves from this crooked [or perverse] generation.” (Acts 2:40) Christians have neither instructions nor authority to change the secular world. We have the Great Commission, to preach the Gospel so that those who might be saved, will be. But Christ himself told his apostles, if nobody wanted to listen to them, to “shake the dust from your sandals”.
Meditation
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Prayer :
Let the word of Christ richly dwell within during the week to come; whatever I do, in word or deed, may I do in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father.........Amen
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