Category: Bible Reading & Meditation
2 Thessalonians 3:16 Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in all ways. The Lord be with you all. (WEB) We have a promise of a peace from God that passes our understanding in Philippians 4:7. It is a peace that will guard our heart and our mind. Our elder brother, the Prince of Peace, has also promised to give us His very own peace (John 14:27). In today’s Scripture reading, Paul prays that the Lord of peace himself will give us peace at all times in all ways. Now that’s a lot of...
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“As they were coming down the mountain…” –Mark 9:9 Peter said to the transfigured Jesus: “How good it is for us to be here!” (Mk 9:5) Peter may have been “beating around the bush.” He may have been speaking not so much of the goodness of being on the mountain as of the badness of carrying the cross with Jesus in “the valley of the shadow of death” (Ps 23:4, RSV-CE; see also Mt 16:22). Compared to the valley of the shadow of death, the mountaintop looked great. After Peter had made his remarks, “a cloud came, overshadowing them, and...
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1 Timothy 5:1-2 Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers; the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity. (WEB) God is all about family. In Ephesians 3:14-15, the Apostle Paul says… For this cause, I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named (WEB). The community of love that exists within the Trinity itself is made up of a Father, a Son and their common Spirit. When God created Adam and Eve, it...
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“You have great faith! Your wish will come to pass.” –Matthew 15:28 The Israelites in the desert were called to move into the land occupied by the pagan Canaanites. In comparison to the Israelites, the pagan Canaanites were considered “dogs” (see Mt 15:26). But it was the Israelites, chosen by God to live in the Promised Land, who lacked faith (see Nm 13:28ff). How ironic that a woman of the Canaanites, who were descended from those not chosen to live in the Promised Land, would have “great faith” (Mt 15:28), while the Israelites “suffered for [their] faithlessness” (Nm 14:32), and...
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2 Timothy 4:6-8 For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come. I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith. From now on, there is stored up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing. (WEB) When Paul talks about having fought the good fight, what exactly was he referring to? Well, let’s first talk about what it wasn’t. He wasn’t...
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