Reading: John 4,5
My Verse: "Just as the Father raises up the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whoever He wills and is pleased to give it." (5:21)
Here is an Aha! moment. I finally get it! I finally get that the whole of scripture has a single purpose. This verse simply, clearly focuses my mind on the fact that all of the Bible - its entire single purpose is to save us! As I think back on it all - all the drama, tragedy, history, songs of joy, songs of despair, songs of inspiration and praise, prayers, examples of men and women living for You or not, there is so much there and all of it put together is to show us the way to YOU!
First You desire to save me from my sin. "Therefore if any person is in Christ he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old [previous moral and spiritual condition] has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come!" (II Cor. 5:17) By saving me You enable me to live an abundant life here on this sinful earth. You continually grow me and transform me.
Then You save me from the result of physical death by resurrecting my body to be rejoined with my spirit on Your great and glorious Day! "In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the [sound of the ] last trumpet call. For a trumpet will sound and the dead [in Christ] will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed (transformed)." (I Cor. 15:52)
The Bible is so grand! It simply shouts of Your love for us and our need for salvation. Forgive me Lord, for those weak moments when I doubt this truth. I see all the awfulness and begin to wonder, but You do things in Your time. A wonderful song has been running through my mind, we sang it at evening church last Sunday.
" In His time, in His time.
He makes all things beautiful, in His time.
Lord, please show me every day,
As You are teaching me Your way,
That You do just what You say
In Your time."
Thank You for that Lord Jesus.
Ditat Deus - God Enriches!
My Verse: "Just as the Father raises up the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whoever He wills and is pleased to give it." (5:21)
Here is an Aha! moment. I finally get it! I finally get that the whole of scripture has a single purpose. This verse simply, clearly focuses my mind on the fact that all of the Bible - its entire single purpose is to save us! As I think back on it all - all the drama, tragedy, history, songs of joy, songs of despair, songs of inspiration and praise, prayers, examples of men and women living for You or not, there is so much there and all of it put together is to show us the way to YOU!
First You desire to save me from my sin. "Therefore if any person is in Christ he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old [previous moral and spiritual condition] has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come!" (II Cor. 5:17) By saving me You enable me to live an abundant life here on this sinful earth. You continually grow me and transform me.
Then You save me from the result of physical death by resurrecting my body to be rejoined with my spirit on Your great and glorious Day! "In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the [sound of the ] last trumpet call. For a trumpet will sound and the dead [in Christ] will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed (transformed)." (I Cor. 15:52)
The Bible is so grand! It simply shouts of Your love for us and our need for salvation. Forgive me Lord, for those weak moments when I doubt this truth. I see all the awfulness and begin to wonder, but You do things in Your time. A wonderful song has been running through my mind, we sang it at evening church last Sunday.
" In His time, in His time.
He makes all things beautiful, in His time.
Lord, please show me every day,
As You are teaching me Your way,
That You do just what You say
In Your time."
Thank You for that Lord Jesus.
Ditat Deus - God Enriches!
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