17 Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth. 18 As you sent me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. 19 I sanctify myself for them, so that they also may be sanctified by the truth. We are sent out into the world each day to make our way. This first begins...
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Only Good For Today
19 If our hope in Christ is good for this life only and no more,[a] then we deserve more pity than anyone else in all the world. (1 Corinthians 15:19 GNT) It is very easy to lose our eternal focus. We get caught up in lamenting the baggage from our past, the...
Blameless
4 For he chose us in him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless in love before him. Blameless - not a word I would use in relation to myself. In fact quite the opposite. Yet, through my belief and faith this is the word God uses...
Who’s Listening
9 He told Samuel, “Go and lie down. If he calls you, say, ‘Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening.’” So Samuel went and lay down in his place. (1 Samuel 3:9 CSB) I often wonder as I write these who’s listening? Not to my words necessarily, but to the message God...
Everything Loss
8 More than that, I also consider everything to be a loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. Because of him I have suffered the loss of all things and consider them as dung, so that I may gain Christ (Philippians 3:8 CSB) We all put so...