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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 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. Sunday, March 17, 2019
Today's Passage : Today's Passage:Freedom from the Dark Dungeon Bible Verse:Colossians 1:3-14 "Our prayers for you are always spilling over into thanksgivings. We can’t quit thanking God our Father and Jesus our Messiah for you! We keep getting reports on your steady faith in Christ, our Jesus, and the love you continuously extend to all Christians. The lines of purpose in your lives never grow slack, tightly tied as they are to your future in heaven, kept taut by hope. The Message is as true among you today as when you first heard it. . . . Be assured that from the first day we heard of you, we haven’t stopped praying for you, asking God to give you wise minds and spirits attuned to his will, and so acquire a thorough understanding of the ways in which God works. We pray that you’ll live well for the Master, making him proud of you as you work hard in his orchard. As you learn more and more how God works, you will learn how to do your work. We pray that you’ll have the strength to stick it out over the long haul—not the grim strength of gritting your teeth but the glory-strength God gives. It is strength that endures the unendurable and spills over into joy, thanking the Father who makes us strong enough to take part in everything bright and beautiful that he has for us. God rescued us from dead-end alleys and dark dungeons. He’s set us up in the kingdom of the Son he loves so much, the Son who got us out of the pit we were in, got rid of the sins we were doomed to keep repeating. But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us? Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday? Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons. And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush. When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight: and as he drew near to behold it, the voice of the Lord came unto him, Saying, I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled, and durst not behold. " Message:
Darkness is used in Scripture to express a great many things. In the Bible, as in most human society, darkness is tied to sorrow; people who have lost a loved one find the nights the hardest time to bear. We talk about a depressed person being in a dark or gloomy state of mind. In our culture, we wear black to express mourning.
Jesus Light of the World
But God, in both the old and new covenants, has rescued us from the power of darkness. He has helped us in our worldly problems and struggles and has promised a much greater help in the eternal night of death. We pray every night in gratitude for our daily bread. The mere fact that there is a sun that comes up in the morning is a miracle of deliverance that is repeated every day.
Darkness is even more strongly associated with ignorance. Those who cannot comprehend God’s Word dwell in the dark, unable to see truth. The Gospel of John tells us that the world was darkness, except for the light which was with God, and was God, and which became manifest on earth in the person of Christ. (John 1:5.) One of the fundamental purposes of Christ’s mission was shining his light into the darkness of human ignorance. I thank God that many of us, though we know comparatively little, at least understand that we were born blind, but that we can now see. Through Christ, God has delivered us from the power of darkness.
We can see the work of both the darkness and the light on St. Patrick’s Day. A man who brought the light to Ireland, and freed its people from the dungeon of darkness, is parodied by those blind to his message. Some of the Irish and their descendants build themselves a golden calf painted green, then parade around it in an orgy of drunken nationalism. God help us. May we remember and pray thanks for the poor slave boy, dragged from his home (possibly in Scotland) to a barbaric island, to bring its people the Light of truth.
Meditation : Prayer : Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked will I return. The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.......Amen |
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