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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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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, August 2, 2018
Today's Passage : Today's Passage:Subjecta:A Man Blind from Birth Bible Verse:John 9:1-7 (ESV) "As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him. We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” Having said these things, he spit on the ground and made mud with the saliva. Then he anointed the man's eyes with the mud and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means Sent). So he went and washed and came back seeing. The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar were saying, “Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?” Some said, “It is he.” Others said, “No, but he is like him.” He kept saying, “I am the man.” So they said to him, “Then how were your eyes opened?” He answered, “The man called Jesus made mud and anointed my eyes and said to me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed and received my sight.”" Message:
This passage is an allegory (a representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning through concrete or material forms). We are all blind from birth, but Christ is the light of the world. We are blind because we cannot see the light. We are born, hopeless, into sin.
Christ takes the peculiar step of spitting into the mud, to represent God making Adam from earth; in this case, however, God has combined himself with the earth. The mud is a mixture of God and man. It may seem a bit odd, but the mud represent Jesus himself. He is able to recreate the man to his state before the fall.
The passage also addresses one of the hardest things to understand about the nature of God and human suffering. Why does God allow so much suffering in the world? It is not because of our individual sins that we get sick, or poor, or suffer all the other pains of life on earth. It is so that the works of God can be displayed in us. God allows us to be born into sin, with free will, so that his work may be shown through us. We simply must believe that, when we pass from this earth, God will reward us for our faith.
Meditation : . Prayer : If you are with me, O God, who can be against me? For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate me from the love of God in Christ Jesus my Lord.......Amen |
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