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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. Monday, July 16, 2018
Today's Passage : Today's Passage:Subjecta:Let Him Who is Without Sin Cast the First Stone Bible Verse:John 8:1-11 "The others went to their homes, but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them. The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. Now in the Law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?” This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.” And once more he bent down and wrote on the ground. But when they heard it, they went away one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. Jesus stood up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more.” " Message:
By now, the Pharisees had begun the process of amassing evidence against Jesus. Knowing that his popularity was growing, they wanted a powerful case to bring, so that they might condemn him to die for heresy. Therefore they try to be clever and present him with a conundrum. They expect him to hang himself with his own words.
But Jesus is much too clever. Instead of giving his accusers the direct contradiction of Mosaic Law they expect, or else retracting his message of mercy, he takes the opportunity to teach one of his greatest and best-known lessons.
We are not to judge other people. We do not have the authority, because each and every one of us has sinned in the eyes of God. Most of us pray daily to God, to forgive us our trespasses as we have forgiven those who trespass against us. Yet, typically, we then proceed to judge others every day, time and time again.
The second, and equally important, part of the teaching is that Christ—who is the one, and the only one, given authority to judge us—will forgive us for our sins. But although his forgiveness of the adulteress in this passage saves her earthly life, it is only an analogy to his more important primary mission: to shrive her, and all men, of our sins, so that we may appear spotless before God after our death, and find eternal life and joy with him.
Meditation : Prayer : God our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, and Spirit of God amidst us, direct our way unto you. Make us to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you; to the end we may establish our hearts unblameable in holiness before you, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.,..Amen |
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