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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 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. Friday, June 5, 2026
Today's Passage : Today's Passage :Ignoring God Bible Verse:Galatians 6:7-10 "Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return. The one who sows to please his flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; but the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to the family of faith. " Message:
The Greek original of the phrase “God will not be mocked” literally means “God will allow noses to be wrinkled at Him.” There is no big lesson here; I just thought it was interesting that the idiom is identical in English and ancient Greek. I suppose wrinkling or turning up your nose at something/someone you scorn is a natural gesture!
The lesson of this verse is echoed myriad times in the Bible. In addition to Jonah, two immediately come to mind: Adam and Eve trying to hide from God after eating the fruit in the Garden of Eden, and the first line of Psalm 1,
“Blessed is the man
Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly,
Nor stands in the path of sinners,
Nor sits in the seat of the scornful;”
Eve serpent Boccaccio 1415
(by Boccaccio, ca. 1415)
Why do people do stupid things, which they know or should know will turn out badly? Did Adam and/or Eve really think that they could eat the fruit and God would not notice?
Why, for example, do atheists not only try to ignore God, but act superior in their beliefs? There is nobody more scornful or mocking on the face of the planet than an atheist in his intellectual superiority, laughing about the “tooth fairy” as he careens toward his destruction. We cannot fathom his foolishness. As Paul points out several times, even a savage in the forest who has never heard of God must believe in Him, for we can see His hand in all creation.
We might struggle to answer this in intellectual terms, but in our gut we know why, for we are tempted just as Adam and Eve were tempted. Moreover, the same person tempts us: Satan, almost always in disguise. In fact, it is ourselves who puzzle us the most. Paul poses the dilemma for us, in Romans 7:15, 19, “[W]hat I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do. . . . For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice.”
What we can say about our dilemma, with absolute assurance, is that God understands it. He might seem puzzled in Genesis — He asks Adam where he is, and then asks him, “Who told you that you were naked?” — but that is for rhetorical effect. The more critical point is not that God knows what we do and why we do it, in the sense of knowledge, but that He understands it (as we do) at the gut level. Here lies one of our benefits that spring from the humanity of Christ.
Christ knew temptation as we know temptation, for He was fully human. When Satan tempted Him to turn stones to bread, Jesus had been fasting in the desert. He was hungry. He suffered no more and no less than one of us would have suffered. So let us give thanks for God’s amazing love, that He would join us in our pain, which we brought on by our own sin. There is no need to hide from Him; we must resist the temptation to hide, and instead, be filled with faith in His knowledge and His forgiveness.
Meditation : Prayer : Now to Him who has given me grace in accordance with His gospel, in keeping with the revelation of the mystery hidden for many ages past, but now revealed and made known by the command of the eternal God, so that all mankind might find the obedience that comes from faith; to the only God, the God of wisdom and truth, be glory forever through His only son, Jesus Christ. |
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