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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

Have you ever noticed the difference between the way the followers of Mohammed and the followers of Jesus react when one or the other is insulted? When Mohammed is insulted, Islam says the offender is to be killed by the faithful, but when Jesus is mocked, Scripture teaches us to pray that God would have mercy on the mocker. Why the difference? Do Muslims hold Mohammed in higher esteem? Not at all. It’s simply this: Mohammed oppressed and slaughtered some of those that resisted his message and taught his followers to do the same. But Jesus died for His enemies and taught us to love our enemies as well, so that we would be like our Father in heaven. Now, I ask you, which religion sounds as though it came from heaven, and which was made here on earth?
Michael Lawrence

DEVOTIONS FOR ASCENSION DAY

Acts i. 1-15: Ps. xlvii.

O God, the King of glory, who through
the Resurrection and Ascension of our Lord
Jesus Christ, hast opened the kingdom of
heaven to all believers; leave me not an
orphan, in my weary mortal state, but send
me the Holy Ghost, the Comforter; who
shall guide me always in the way of truth
and peace, and bring me in the end to those
mansions of rest in which Christ now dwells
and reigns: to whom, with Thee and the
Holy Ghost, be honor and glory, world with-
out end. Amen.

O King of glory, Lord of hosts, who hast
ascended up in triumph above the heavens;
leave me not comfortless, but send upon me
the promise of the Father, even the Spirit of
truth.

Glory be to Thee, ascended Saviour.

When Thou hadst made glad the hearts
of Thy disciples with the promise of the
Holy Ghost, when Thou hadst confirmed
their souls with Thy blessing of peace, Thou
wast received up into glory, O Christ, our
Saviour: for Thou art the Son of God, the
Saviour of the world.

Glory be to Thee, ascended Saviour.