ALL – Psalm 76:1-12
ALL – Proverbs 24:21-22
OT – Jeremiah 2:31-4:18
NT – Colossians 1:1-19
Interesting passage for the day: The same Good News that came to you is going out all over the world and changing lives everywhere, just as it changed yours that very first day you heard it and understood about God’s great kindness to sinners. – Colossians 1:6, The Living Bible
Thought: This statement was written about 2,000 years ago, but it’s just as true today as it was then. People who learn about God’s great kindness to sinners are still being transformed entirely—from their hearts to their hands. Jesus Christ is still making all things new. Through Him we have not only been created, but we become a new creation all over again.
This change is happening in every nation on earth. The gospel is still the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes. Jesus Christ is still building His church, and the gates of hell are still not prevailing against it.
Question: How has your life been changed by Jesus Christ? How have you seen Him change others?
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Monday, October 4, 2010
Friday, November 27, 2009
Don't Leave the Way You Came
Ezekiel 45:13-46:24; Psalm 119:65-88; Proverbs 28:15-16
Dirty people enter a shower to come out clean. Shaggy people enter a barber’s shop to come out trimmed. Hungry people enter restaurant to come out filled.
God invites us to come to Him as we are. Too often, though, we think that means He wants us to stay as we are. We couldn’t be more wrong.
God invites us to come to Him to be changed. To come sinful and leave righteous. To come filthy and leave pure. To come guilty and leave forgiven. To come as enemies and leave as sons. He’s not really interested in having us encounter Him and continue on our way unchanged.
Through Ezekiel, God gave the Israelites (and now us) an intriguing way of portraying the expectation of change:
When the people of the land come before the LORD at the appointed feasts, whoever enters by the north gate to worship is to go out the south gate; and whoever enters by the south gate is to go out the north gate. No one is to return through the gate by which he entered, but each is to go out the opposite gate. – Ezekiel 46:9
I can think of no other reason for this command than to remind the Israelites of something important: worshiping God changes us. When we don’t change, does that perhaps indicate that we haven’t truly been worshiping God?
Father, grow me. Change me more and more fully to be like Your Son Jesus Christ.
Dirty people enter a shower to come out clean. Shaggy people enter a barber’s shop to come out trimmed. Hungry people enter restaurant to come out filled.
God invites us to come to Him as we are. Too often, though, we think that means He wants us to stay as we are. We couldn’t be more wrong.
God invites us to come to Him to be changed. To come sinful and leave righteous. To come filthy and leave pure. To come guilty and leave forgiven. To come as enemies and leave as sons. He’s not really interested in having us encounter Him and continue on our way unchanged.
Through Ezekiel, God gave the Israelites (and now us) an intriguing way of portraying the expectation of change:
When the people of the land come before the LORD at the appointed feasts, whoever enters by the north gate to worship is to go out the south gate; and whoever enters by the south gate is to go out the north gate. No one is to return through the gate by which he entered, but each is to go out the opposite gate. – Ezekiel 46:9
I can think of no other reason for this command than to remind the Israelites of something important: worshiping God changes us. When we don’t change, does that perhaps indicate that we haven’t truly been worshiping God?
Father, grow me. Change me more and more fully to be like Your Son Jesus Christ.
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