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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. Saturday, January 13, 2018
Today's Passage : Today's Passage: Subjecta:The Lord’s Supper [3] Bible Verse:1 Corinthians 11:26-34 (ESV) "Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord. Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself. That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died. But if we judged ourselves truly, we would not be judged. But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world. So then, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another — if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home — so that when you come together it will not be for judgment. About the other things I will give directions when I come." Message:
Having chastised the church members in Corinth for their behavior when they came together for the Lord's Supper and then put them in mind of the great moment their worship celebrated (1 Cor. 11:17-25), Paul now “lays down the law.” They would be expected to take to heart Christ’s teachings, and behave accordingly, when they came together for worship. Simply showing up for a service to eat and drink would bring God’s discipline upon them in this world.
This is not the “wrath of God,” but rather, the physical, earthly correction that the Holy Spirit will give to us sometimes to correct wrongful behavior; a spanking, as it were. We see this kind of correction in great sins of today. Reformed drug addicts will often say that they had to “hit their bottom” before the lesson came home to them, a painful lesson of physical or moral degradation, perhaps prison, perhaps the death of a fellow traveler; and generally, they will find God in climbing out of the hole their behavior has dug for them.
Pride, adultery, anger, theft — there is no sin that the Holy Spirit will not see fit to correct, at some point, not as judgment but as correction, for God wants nothing more than for us to come to Him and be saved. This is God's love, not His wrath; for He seeks to divert us from conduct that will condemn us when His judgment comes.
The poor behavior at worship would have to stem from a general failure to grasp the duty of love to one's fellow man; one who loves his brothers would not watch them go hungry, at a church meeting, while eating supper. And by the same token, how could they grasp the significance of the Lord's Supper and behave thus? So Paul’s teaching is harsh, although logical: such conduct is equivalent to responsibility for causing Christ’s death; it is the attitude of a thoughtless bystander who could be led to yell, “crucify Him.”
Meditation : Prayer : May I go in peace, with God and with his other children, and may we love one another as Christ taught us. May I follow the example of good men of old, and may God comfort and help me and all who believe in Him, both in this world and in the world which is to come.....Amen. |
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