Word for Today, Fri, 31 Dec 2004: An Extraordinary God in Ordinary Life
Posted by: masinick <masinick@...>
Dear friends,
Today's devotional message comes from Kevin Corbin, author of
Gleanings From the Word. Kevin reflects on the coming year, then
discusses things that really matter and puts things in a
different perspective.
I pray that each of you does have an enjoyable holiday. At my
church last evening, my pastor covered a potpourri of topics and
scriptures that really cut to the heart of matters, yet he did
it in a light hearted and humorous manner (otherwise the does of
medicine we were given from the Word may have been a tough pill
to swallow).
We all want God to work in our lives, but when we are really
deeply reflective on ourselves in an honest view of what only God
can see, we find ourselves wanting and lacking in many areas - at
least I find that in myself. So my other prayer, the more
important one, is that this season finds each one of us looking
to God and allowing Him to continually work in our lives, moving
and refining us. I know I need a lot of that. The more I open
the eyes to my soul, the more I see my desperate need. Thanks be
to God that He has provided Jesus Christ as the answer to meet
and fill that need. Do you realize your own personal need?
Yours in Christ,
Brian
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GLEANINGS FROM THE WORD
Experience an extraordinary God in ordinary life
Issue #1,265 December 31, 2004 Happy New Year
We sit on the cusp of a turning year. Not that there's
anything particularly special about it, I just like the sound of
the word cusp and have been waiting for an opportunity to use it.
For most it will be a celebration (or choice not to celebrate)
like many before any many to come.
We celebrate the "newness" of the coming year. We celebrate
new opportunities, and great potential. There's a newness that is
far more worth celebrating than the potential of the coming year.
So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of
view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do
so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a
new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! 2
Corinthians 5:16-17 NIV
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ!
In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a
living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from
the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish,
spoil or fade--kept in heaven for you, who through faith
are shielded by God's power until the coming of the
salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time 1
Peter 1:3-5 NIV
If you have Jesus as savior, you are born again. You are
created new. You are no longer under condemnation or judgment.
You are free to become all that the Lord designed you to be.
You're snatched from the fires of hell and yes those fires are
very real and eternal.
Those are things worth celebrating. 2005 will turn into 2006,
2007 and onwards just like clockwork unless the Lord returns in
the interim. Each turning of the year will seem to offer the
promise of change, but as a child of God you already have
received the most important change there is. Best of all, it is a
permanent and ongoing change.
Until next time, by all means celebrate the coming New Year
if you wish, but don't neglect celebrating the God who made a new
you.
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