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Thoughts in Worship
Message Magazine's Online Devotional for Sabbath, June 15, 2019
Audio Link: http://bit.ly/ThoughtsinWorship
This is devotional thought number 56 in our devotional series titled, “The Faith I Live By”
“But though He causes grief, yet will He be moved to compassion according to the multitude of His loving-kindness and tender mercy. For He does not willingly and from His heart afflict or grieve the children of men.” (Lamentations 3:32–33).
I don’t know Lazurus’ mother, and neither do you, but I wonder if she were alive when her dear son took sick, how she would have felt. How would she have prayed? For what would she have asked as his health obviously declined? What about his daddy? Would his focus have been Lazarus, or his wife and daughters as the last pulses of life ebbed from his temporal frame?
One of the few certainties in life is death. Its cold non-discriminatory clutches grasp at every family, relationship, friendship, profession, social strata, and religious persuasion. Nothing can stave off its march into our lives. Yet, the One who is the resurrection and the life has promised that those who die in Christ simply rest in their dreamless sleep until Jesus returns. We will be sad. We will miss our loved ones. We may even have questions about the untimeliness of their demise. But we must not, if our faith and trust is in Christ, mourn as those who have no hope. Jesus promised comfort to the comfortless, and He always keeps His promises.
When Jesus finally went to the hometown of Lazarus and his family after his body began to decompose, his family needed comfort and the naysayers who gathered when Jesus seemed to arrive on scene late, needed to witness the power of God at its best. After Jesus consoled and informed the faith of Lazarus’ sisters, He gave the primary signal of His eternal identity. Jesus restored the breath of life to Lazarus’ body just like He did as He formed him in his mother’s womb, and he became a living soul … AGAIN. Can you imagine the amazement? Jesus gave life to Lazarus for all to witness. We were not there to see Adam and Eve created. We could not perch on the fallopian tubes to watch the gestational cycle as Abel or Seth developed in Eve’s womb, but all the people in the town of Bethany were able to see Jesus create life. In Him was life, and the life was the light of all humanity. In Him we live, breathe, and have our being; and He demonstrated that though our grief may come at times, He will be moved with compassion. In due season, Jesus will wipe away all tears from our eyes. At just the right time, Jesus will destroy the enemy of all, which is death. And when He does so, there will be a grand resurrection, and not just one man will miraculously be recreated before our eyes. No! Millions of God’s children will be raised incorruptible. Those who sleep in the dust, who lived by faith in Christ, will awake, never to sleep again. I look forward to that day.
By God’s grace, this is the faith I live by, let this be the same for you, in Jesus’ name.—L. David Harris (http://bit.ly/BQuotable)
#theprotestisnotover #thefaithiliveby
Message Magazine's Online Devotional for Sabbath, June 15, 2019
Audio Link: http://bit.ly/ThoughtsinWorship
This is devotional thought number 56 in our devotional series titled, “The Faith I Live By”
“But though He causes grief, yet will He be moved to compassion according to the multitude of His loving-kindness and tender mercy. For He does not willingly and from His heart afflict or grieve the children of men.” (Lamentations 3:32–33).
I don’t know Lazurus’ mother, and neither do you, but I wonder if she were alive when her dear son took sick, how she would have felt. How would she have prayed? For what would she have asked as his health obviously declined? What about his daddy? Would his focus have been Lazarus, or his wife and daughters as the last pulses of life ebbed from his temporal frame?
One of the few certainties in life is death. Its cold non-discriminatory clutches grasp at every family, relationship, friendship, profession, social strata, and religious persuasion. Nothing can stave off its march into our lives. Yet, the One who is the resurrection and the life has promised that those who die in Christ simply rest in their dreamless sleep until Jesus returns. We will be sad. We will miss our loved ones. We may even have questions about the untimeliness of their demise. But we must not, if our faith and trust is in Christ, mourn as those who have no hope. Jesus promised comfort to the comfortless, and He always keeps His promises.
When Jesus finally went to the hometown of Lazarus and his family after his body began to decompose, his family needed comfort and the naysayers who gathered when Jesus seemed to arrive on scene late, needed to witness the power of God at its best. After Jesus consoled and informed the faith of Lazarus’ sisters, He gave the primary signal of His eternal identity. Jesus restored the breath of life to Lazarus’ body just like He did as He formed him in his mother’s womb, and he became a living soul … AGAIN. Can you imagine the amazement? Jesus gave life to Lazarus for all to witness. We were not there to see Adam and Eve created. We could not perch on the fallopian tubes to watch the gestational cycle as Abel or Seth developed in Eve’s womb, but all the people in the town of Bethany were able to see Jesus create life. In Him was life, and the life was the light of all humanity. In Him we live, breathe, and have our being; and He demonstrated that though our grief may come at times, He will be moved with compassion. In due season, Jesus will wipe away all tears from our eyes. At just the right time, Jesus will destroy the enemy of all, which is death. And when He does so, there will be a grand resurrection, and not just one man will miraculously be recreated before our eyes. No! Millions of God’s children will be raised incorruptible. Those who sleep in the dust, who lived by faith in Christ, will awake, never to sleep again. I look forward to that day.
By God’s grace, this is the faith I live by, let this be the same for you, in Jesus’ name.—L. David Harris (http://bit.ly/BQuotable)
#theprotestisnotover #thefaithiliveby
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Thoughts in Worship
Message Magazine's Online Devotional for Sabbath, June 15, 2019
Audio Link: http://bit.ly/ThoughtsinWorship
This is devotional thought number 56 in our devotional series titled, “The Faith I Live By”
“But though He causes grief, yet will He be moved to compassion according to the multitude of His loving-kindness and tender mercy. For He does not willingly and from His heart afflict or grieve the children of men.” (Lamentations 3:32–33).
I don’t know Lazurus’ mother, and neither do you, but I wonder if she were alive when her dear son took sick, how she would have felt. How would she have prayed? For what would she have asked as his health obviously declined? What about his daddy? Would his focus have been Lazarus, or his wife and daughters as the last pulses of life ebbed from his temporal frame?
One of the few certainties in life is death. Its cold non-discriminatory clutches grasp at every family, relationship, friendship, profession, social strata, and religious persuasion. Nothing can stave off its march into our lives. Yet, the One who is the resurrection and the life has promised that those who die in Christ simply rest in their dreamless sleep until Jesus returns. We will be sad. We will miss our loved ones. We may even have questions about the untimeliness of their demise. But we must not, if our faith and trust is in Christ, mourn as those who have no hope. Jesus promised comfort to the comfortless, and He always keeps His promises.
When Jesus finally went to the hometown of Lazarus and his family after his body began to decompose, his family needed comfort and the naysayers who gathered when Jesus seemed to arrive on scene late, needed to witness the power of God at its best. After Jesus consoled and informed the faith of Lazarus’ sisters, He gave the primary signal of His eternal identity. Jesus restored the breath of life to Lazarus’ body just like He did as He formed him in his mother’s womb, and he became a living soul … AGAIN. Can you imagine the amazement? Jesus gave life to Lazarus for all to witness. We were not there to see Adam and Eve created. We could not perch on the fallopian tubes to watch the gestational cycle as Abel or Seth developed in Eve’s womb, but all the people in the town of Bethany were able to see Jesus create life. In Him was life, and the life was the light of all humanity. In Him we live, breathe, and have our being; and He demonstrated that though our grief may come at times, He will be moved with compassion. In due season, Jesus will wipe away all tears from our eyes. At just the right time, Jesus will destroy the enemy of all, which is death. And when He does so, there will be a grand resurrection, and not just one man will miraculously be recreated before our eyes. No! Millions of God’s children will be raised incorruptible. Those who sleep in the dust, who lived by faith in Christ, will awake, never to sleep again. I look forward to that day.
By God’s grace, this is the faith I live by, let this be the same for you, in Jesus’ name.—L. David Harris (http://bit.ly/BQuotable)
#theprotestisnotover #thefaithiliveby
Message Magazine's Online Devotional for Sabbath, June 15, 2019
Audio Link: http://bit.ly/ThoughtsinWorship
This is devotional thought number 56 in our devotional series titled, “The Faith I Live By”
“But though He causes grief, yet will He be moved to compassion according to the multitude of His loving-kindness and tender mercy. For He does not willingly and from His heart afflict or grieve the children of men.” (Lamentations 3:32–33).
I don’t know Lazurus’ mother, and neither do you, but I wonder if she were alive when her dear son took sick, how she would have felt. How would she have prayed? For what would she have asked as his health obviously declined? What about his daddy? Would his focus have been Lazarus, or his wife and daughters as the last pulses of life ebbed from his temporal frame?
One of the few certainties in life is death. Its cold non-discriminatory clutches grasp at every family, relationship, friendship, profession, social strata, and religious persuasion. Nothing can stave off its march into our lives. Yet, the One who is the resurrection and the life has promised that those who die in Christ simply rest in their dreamless sleep until Jesus returns. We will be sad. We will miss our loved ones. We may even have questions about the untimeliness of their demise. But we must not, if our faith and trust is in Christ, mourn as those who have no hope. Jesus promised comfort to the comfortless, and He always keeps His promises.
When Jesus finally went to the hometown of Lazarus and his family after his body began to decompose, his family needed comfort and the naysayers who gathered when Jesus seemed to arrive on scene late, needed to witness the power of God at its best. After Jesus consoled and informed the faith of Lazarus’ sisters, He gave the primary signal of His eternal identity. Jesus restored the breath of life to Lazarus’ body just like He did as He formed him in his mother’s womb, and he became a living soul … AGAIN. Can you imagine the amazement? Jesus gave life to Lazarus for all to witness. We were not there to see Adam and Eve created. We could not perch on the fallopian tubes to watch the gestational cycle as Abel or Seth developed in Eve’s womb, but all the people in the town of Bethany were able to see Jesus create life. In Him was life, and the life was the light of all humanity. In Him we live, breathe, and have our being; and He demonstrated that though our grief may come at times, He will be moved with compassion. In due season, Jesus will wipe away all tears from our eyes. At just the right time, Jesus will destroy the enemy of all, which is death. And when He does so, there will be a grand resurrection, and not just one man will miraculously be recreated before our eyes. No! Millions of God’s children will be raised incorruptible. Those who sleep in the dust, who lived by faith in Christ, will awake, never to sleep again. I look forward to that day.
By God’s grace, this is the faith I live by, let this be the same for you, in Jesus’ name.—L. David Harris (http://bit.ly/BQuotable)
#theprotestisnotover #thefaithiliveby