Post-o-Matic 3.16† 0 Report post Posted February 1, 2009 Morning Though you have not seen him, you love him. For we walk by faith, not by sight.—We love because he first loved us.—So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.—In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit.—To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”—Blessed are all who take refuge in him. 1 Pet. 1:8; 2 Cor. 5:7; 1 John 4:19; 1 John 4:16; Eph. 1:13; Col. 1:27; 1 John 4:20; John 20:29; Ps. 2:12 (Read full verses...) Evening “The LORD is our righteousness.” We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. With the mighty deeds of the Lord GOD I will come; I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone.—I will greatly rejoice in the LORD; my soul shall exult in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation; he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself like a priest with a beautiful headdress, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels. “Bring quickly the best robe, and put it on him.”—“It was granted her to clothe herself with fine linen, bright and pure”—for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord . . . in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith. Jer. 23:6; Isa. 64:6; Ps. 71:16; Isa. 61:10; Luke 15:22; Rev. 19:8; Phil. 3:8, 9 (Read full verses...) << Jan 31 | Feb 1 | Feb 2 >> Excerpted from Daily Light on the Daily Path ©2002 Crossway Books, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Posted on Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:01:00 -0800 at http://www.gnpcb.org/esv/devotions/daily.light/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
