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The scripture for today, June 8 (6/8), is Romans 6:8 as found in the New Testament of the Bible:

“Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.”

We all want to live with Christ, but how do we die with him?  Earlier in this same chapter, God inspired the writer to say this:  “We died to sin….don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ were baptized into his death?  We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead…we too may live a new life” (Romans 6:2-4).

So, just as Christ did a physical action to die for us, we do a physical action to die with him.  And just as Christ’s physical death overcame spiritual death, so our physical action overcomes our spiritual death.  Then we are born again, or as this verse says, we “live a new life”.

Some say this is water salvation.  But it is no more water salvation than the cross was wood salvation.  God put us in a physical world, and God has us sometimes do physical things in order to obtain a spiritual outcome.  Our singing praise songs is a physical thing, but it is no less spiritual in its outcome. Our eating the Lord’s Supper is a physical thing, but it is no less spiritual in its outcome.

Have you died with Christ?

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The scripture for today, May 18 (5/18), is 1st Thessalonians 5:18 as found in the New Testament of the Bible:

“Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.”

This is one of the most difficult verses in the Bible to follow.  How can we rejoice with the loss of a loved one, of health, of a job, of a home, of a position?  The Christians at Thessalonica, in Greece, had been suffering a lot of persecution for being Christians.

Satan will do all he can to cause bad to happen in your life in order to get you to blame God and forsake him.  But the real blame belongs on Satan.  It may sometimes seem like the harder you try to follow God, the worse things get in our life.  In that case, apparently Satan is afraid of your strength in the Lord and is trying to weaken you and get you back on his side.

And sometimes God stands back and tells Satan, “Do your best.  This person will grow stronger, not weaker.”  Along with the Christians in Thessalonica, you can “become a model….your faith in God can become known everywhere” (1st Thessalonians 1:7-8).

So rejoice that Satan is so afraid of you.  And at the same time, keep your eyes on Jesus who never gave in when Satan caused bad to happen to him.  Rejoice that you are counted worthy.

The scripture for today, May 15 (5/15), is Ecclesiastes 5:15 as found in the Old Testament of the Bible:

“Naked a man comes from his mother’s womb, and as he comes, so he departs.  He takes nothing from his labor that he can carry in his hand.”

As most people enter their senior years, they finally understand this verse.  In their youth they struggled to get jobs and status and things.  Some accomplished it and some didn’t.  But in the senior years….
when health is gradually declining….
the world is passing them by….
and they are sitting in their chair most of the time,

….the main thing people look back on is what difference they made in their world, and how they did or did not help people important to them.

Often in their senior years when their income goes down and they are….
living only on a small pension,
unable to keep their big house,
and fancy car, and
impressive stuff,
….they realize they are still the same person inside regardless of what they own.

Ask a senior what they want for a birthday present.  It is not likely to be things.  It is likely to be time spent with a loved one.

 

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The scripture for today, May 1, is Romans 5:1 as found in the New Testament of the Bible:

“Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.”

Of course, if we do not have faith in Jesus, we will not obey any of his commands.  He said in John 15:14, “You are my friends IF you do what I command.”

Some people say we are not saved by works, and this is true in the sense that we have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23) and the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23).  

But faith does lead to works.  In fact, Jesus himself said that faith/belief itself is a work (John 6:29).  And James 2:18 says we prove our faith by works.

Yes, it is a beautiful thing that we are saved by the Grace of God and the Death of Jesus.  That was their part.  Our part is to believe it, accept it, and actively follow it.  

That, too, is beautiful.

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The scripture for today, April 28 (4/28), is Mark 4:28 as found in the New Testament of the Bible:

“All by itself the soil produces grain ~ first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in the head.”  

Jesus was explaining that the kingdom of heaven is like a seed planted in the ground.  It grows almost miraculously.

 The church is, indeed, like this.  Planted some 2000 years ago, it has survived through every adversity and attack contrived by man.  Sometimes the attacks were even from within.  But at such times, just when it looked as though it was going to die, just like a seed dying in the earth, it would begin to sprout and grow up stronger than ever.

A little seed turning into a stalk is miraculous and amazing.  The survival of the church for some 2000 years is even more miraculous and amazing.

God is still on his throne, and all is well.

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