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For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast.Eph 2:9 |
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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, May 25, 2017
Today's Passage : Subject:The Word Made Flesh [2] Bible Verse:1 Peter 1:19-21 (ESV) "He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God. " Message:
nother long sentence! This is actually a continuation of the Scripture from Sunday, but once again, we must take the time to read it slowly and thoroughly in order to get a full measure of meaning from it.
Peter once again reminds us that Christ existed from the beginning of time. We could not, however, find him. He was a "light that shined in darkness", but a light which the darkness could not (and cannot) comprehend. We were living in that darkness, and thus, we could not comprehend Christ.
So the light took the form of a man, to ensure that we could see him and relate to him, to see what was possible: victory over death. He was made “manifest” — that is, made into something we could see and hear and touch — so that we might really grasp that God exists, and hear God's word, and know God's heart, which is love.
All this He did, so that our faith and hope might be in God. By our nature, our faith and hope are in things of this world: money, pride, status, the satiation of our bodies and our egos. Our nature is to believe what we can see. So God made Himself into someone we could see. He took the eternal fight of good and evil into the visible world. Christ was God bringing the fight into enemy territory, in a sense.
And the purpose of Christ becoming a human being was that our faith and hope would be in God.
Meditation : Prayer : I dedicate this day to you, mighty God. I pray that your Spirit will lift me up this day, and that your face may shine upon me all the day long, that I might do your will and lead a new life in Christ, reborn in the Spirit. Amen. |
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