Post-o-Matic 3.16† 0 Report post Posted December 23, 2008 Morning “Or let them lay hold of my protection, let them make peace with me.” “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for wholeness and not for evil.”—“There is no peace,” says the LORD, “for the wicked.” But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For he himself is our peace. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.—Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins . . . so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.—If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD GOD is an everlasting rock. Isa. 27:5; Jer. 29:11; Isa. 48:22; Eph. 2:13, 14; Col. 1:19, 20; Rom. 3:24-26; 1 John 1:9; Isa. 26:4 (Read full verses...) Evening God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. “For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself. . . . For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will.” “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die.”—“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. . . . No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my Father.”—“No one comes to the Father except through me.”—Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.—For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. 1 John 5:11; John 5:26, 21; John 11:25, 26; John 10:11, 17, 18; John 14:6; 1 John 5:12; Col. 3:3, 4 (Read full verses...) << Dec 22 | Dec 23 | Dec 24 >> Excerpted from Daily Light on the Daily Path ©2002 Crossway Books, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Posted on Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:01:00 -0800 at http://www.gnpcb.org/esv/devotions/daily.light/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
