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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 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. Tuesday, October 10, 2023
Today's Passage : Today's Passage :The Right to Become the Children of God Bible Verse:John 1:10-13 (ESV) "He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. He came to his own, and his own did not receive him. But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God." Message:
The first sentence gives one of the important concepts of Christianity. When Christ was born, God entered the world that He had made, but the world did not know him. It did not recognize him and it did not partake of him. By becoming human, God humbled himself to be one of the creatures he had made. But humanity did not know him and did not receive him.
When John tells us that the world did not receive Christ, there are several simultaneous meanings. The most apparent is in the old-fashioned meaning of “receive,” harkening back to the time when people more commonly used the term “receive visitors.” When there were no telephones, people would call on each other in person. The friendly thing to do would be to invite them in for conversation and perhaps some refreshment, i.e., receive them. The alternative was to have the butler or maid tell the visitors that the person was “not at home”.
Love of God
But the world, John tells us, did not know Him. It did not recognize him. He made the world, and He was in the world, but the world treated Him like a stranger in His own creation. And so, they told the butler “I do not know this person. Tell Him I’m not home.”
In the actual days when Jesus was alive in the flesh, people literally did not invite Him into their lives. More importantly, however, is the metaphorical or spiritual sense of receiving Him; they did not take Him into their hearts and lives, even though He was the embodiment of God who had made them.
We might even extend the metaphor to a modern sense of “receive.” We sometimes do not or cannot receive a radio or tv station, because we are tuned to the wrong channel. The majority of Jews—being Pharisees, Sadducees, Herodians, etc.— were not attuned to the prophesies of Isaiah et al. They expected a fierce warrior king to come, a political and military figure who would drive the Romans out of Canaan. They were not tuned into the channel that Scripture had pointed them to.
And then, there is that wonderful last sentence. Those humble or smart enough to receive Christ got something more precious than anything else in existence: the right to become the children of God. They were, and are, like Christ: Although we all have an earthly father, we were given the power to become like Jesus Himself to be reborn as He was born, with God as our Father. Just as Christ, we have the power to become the literal “children of God.”
Meditation : Prayer : Now all glory to God, who is able to keep me from falling away and will bring me with great joy into his glorious presence without a single fault. All glory to him who alone is God, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord. All glory, majesty, power, and authority are his before all time, and in the present, and beyond all time, Amen |
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