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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. Thursday, June 7, 2018
Today's Passage : Today's Passage:Subjecta:Eternal Life Bible Verse:John 5:24-27 (ESV) "“Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life. Very truly I tell you, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live. For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself. And he has given him authority to judge because he is the Son of Man.”" Message:
John gives us three critical Christian concepts in this short passage, together with several other statements about Christ’s purpose. This passage is one of the central sources of Christian belief.
First, the “death to life” concept. Notice that Christ does not say, here, “people who hear my word and believe in me”; rather, he says “people who hear my word and believe God the Father.” This restatement of something he says many times implies that Christ’s teachings come directly from the Father. This tightens the tie between Jesus and God the Father and further hints at the incomprehensible mystery Christ, stated in John 1:1—that the Word is simultaneously God and “with God.” Jesus is God and, at the same time, a distinct individual.
Secondly, he says a time is both coming and has come when the dead will hear the Son of God and will live. As is so often the case in John, “dead” has two meanings. It refers both to the spiritually dead but physically living people who hear his word, and to people who have already died. It anticipates something that will occur after his death; he will visit the souls of the departed to enable them to accept the new covenant.
Third, we get a little more information about Christ as the judge of man. He says that God has given him the role of the judge of mankind, because Christ has lived as an actual human being. Jesus gives God a human face. It is easier for us to accept judgment from a God who has come to live as one of us, because it assures us that God knows, firsthand, the suffering, the joys and pains that we experience as human. It is akin to a king who goes and lives as a base laborer among his people; it is an act of love and solidarity of experience, done so that we might know him as one of us.
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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