Category: Bible Reading & Meditation
Elijah “went a day’s journey into the desert.” –1 Kings 19:4 Many of you are quoting Elijah the prophet by gasping: “This is enough, O Lord!” (1 Kgs 19:4) You can’t stand the thought of going on with your parish work, marriage, job, or even life. You want to roll over and play dead. You are “burnt out.” You are in good company because Elijah, known for “playing with fire” (see Sir 48:1, 3), eventually became “burnt out” himself. God intervened by sending an angel to command Elijah to “get up and eat, else the journey will be too long...
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Colossians 3:23-24 23 And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men, 24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ. (WEB) Our biggest struggles can occur when we try to draw our life from horizontal sources. Whether we live for the approval of a spouse, a pastor, a parent or a boss, it is all the same to God. Jesus lived a vertical life. He lived to please His Dad and His life source came from Him as well. Jesus wasn’t a people...
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“Therefore, you shall love the Lord.” –Deuteronomy 6:5 “God is Love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him” (1 Jn 4:16). “God’s love was revealed in our midst in this way: He sent His only Son to the world that we might have life through Him. Love, then, consists in this: not that we have loved God but that He has loved us and has sent His Son as an Offering for our sins” (1 Jn 4:9-10). “The love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit Who has...
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1 Thessalonians 4:9-10 But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another, for indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more; (WEB) I love the tender picture that the Apostle Paul paints in today’s Scripture reading. He is so impressed with the love that the Thessalonians showed to their brothers in Macedonia that he tells them that he really has nothing to teach them about brotherly love… because God...
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“If a man wishes to come after Me, he must deny his very self, take up his cross, and begin to follow in My footsteps.” –Matthew 16:24 Jesus “makes no bones” about it. If we are to be Christians, we must deny our very selves (Mt 16:24). This is not an option but a necessity. In fact, we must deny ourselves to the point of taking up a daily cross (Lk 9:23). We must simply lose our lives (Mt 16:25) by being crucified with Christ (Gal 2:19). The lives we live become no longer our own, but lives “of faith...
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