Category: Message of the Day
“A blind man sat at the side of the road begging. Hearing a crowd go by the man asked, ‘What is that?’ The answer came that Jesus of Nazareth was passing by.” –Luke 18:35-37 Imagine if you were color-blind and nearsighted with impaired peripheral vision. Could you see? Yes. Would you need healing of your vision? Absolutely. Likewise, we can see spiritually but “we see indistinctly, as in a mirror” (1 Cor 13:12). We should not let the fact that we have some vision keep us from crying out to Jesus for vision good enough to live His abundant life....
Like this:
Like Loading...
“When you see these things happening, you will know that He is near, even at the door.” –Mark 13:29 Immediately before the end of the world, we will have “trials of every sort” (Mk 13:24). “It shall be a time unsurpassed in distress since nations began until that time” (Dn 12:1). “Indeed, had the Lord not shortened the period, not a person would be saved. But for the sake of those He has chosen, He has shortened the days” (Mk 13:20). We will see a mass apostasy from our Christian faith, as the “man of lawlessness,” the Anti-Christ, is revealed...
Like this:
Like Loading...
“I tell you, He will give them swift justice.” –Luke 18:8 There’s a certain kind of prayer that results in “swift justice.” God will not delay long over us when we pray in this way (Lk 18:7). In this way of prayer, we call out to God “day and night” (Lk 18:7) and realize that at all times, even at the best of times, we are in desperate need of God. In this prayer, we cry out: “Save us by Your power, and help me, who am alone and have no one but You, O Lord” (Est C:25). We pray...
Like this:
Like Loading...
“It will be like that on the day the Son of Man is revealed.” –Luke 17:30 The end of the world will be like the time of Noah insofar as most people will be oblivious to their imminent destruction (Lk 17:27; see also Lk 17:28-29). The end of the world will not only be surprising but quick. There will be no time to do anything at the last minute (Lk 17:31). The only way to be ready for the end of the world and for Jesus’ final coming is to lose our lives for love of Jesus (Lk 17:33). We...
Like this:
Like Loading...
“Passing into holy souls from age to age, [Wisdom] produces friends of God and prophets. For there is nought God loves, be it not one who dwells with Wisdom.” –Wisdom 7:27-28 To be “friends of God and prophets,” we must be wise (Wis 7:27). To live in God’s love (Jn 15:10), we must be wise (Wis 7:28). To defeat wickedness rather than be defeated by it, we must be wise (Wis 7:30). Isaiah prophesied that the Messiah and His people would have “a spirit of wisdom” (Is 11:2). Christ crucified is “the power of God and the wisdom of God”...
Like this:
Like Loading...