Today Daily Devotional

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May 07, 2018 Promise and Fulfillment
Moses
has led the people of God for more than forty years after leading
them out of slavery in Egypt, but this is the end of the journey for
him. From the time when God spoke to him out of a burning bush
(Exodus 3) until this day, Moses has walked closely with God.
Along
the way, there have been twists and turns. On one occasion, Moses’
anger took over, and his actions led to the consequence of his not
being allowed to go into the promised land (Numbers 20:6-13.)
Still,
God graces Moses with a view of what is to come. Moses sees the land
and knows again that God will keep his promises. The land promised to
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob will become a gift to their descendants.
Promise
and fulfillment are key teachings that the church, as the people of
God, still carry to this world today. We live in hope, knowing that
Christ, who already fulfilled so many of God’s promises to his
people, will come again and fulfill all of God’s promises
completely in the new heaven and new earth, where he is now preparing
a place for us (John 14:1-3; Revelation 21-22).
In
that new reality we will be able to live with him in God’s presence
forever, thanks to all that Christ has accomplished for us. He is
able to lead all who love and serve him into the full life and
well-being that God has promised since the beginning.
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May 06, 2018 A Glimpse of Ascension Day
This
coming Thursday will mark Ascension Day on the calendar of the
church. Forty days after Easter Sunday, Jesus ascended into heaven,
leaving his disciples to do the work of his church on earth. In
today’s psalm reading, we have a glimpse of that day from King
David, who wrote this psalm.
Jesus
is in the genealogy line of King David. About 1,000 years before
Jesus was born in Bethlehem (David’s hometown), David gave thanks
and praise to God as he wrote this psalm.
Jesus
links himself to this psalm in the gospel of Matthew. He asks the
religious leaders and teachers, “Whose son is the Christ (or,
Messiah)?” They all answer that the Christ is the Son of David.
Jesus then asks how that son can be called a lord over King David. To
back up his point, Jesus quotes Psalm 110:1, which they know is a
prophecy of the Messiah, who would one day sit at God’s right hand.
The teachers are silent. They don’t know how to answer. (See
Matthew 22:41-46.)
The
answer is in the fact that Jesus has always been with God the Father.
He has always been the Son of God, even before he became the Son of
David. As Colossians 1:17 puts it, “He is before all things, and in
him all things hold together.”
Isn’t
it amazing and humbling that the triune God was working out this
story from the beginning of time?
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May 05, 2018 Church: A New Family
In
our story for today, Ruth, who married into Naomi’s family, pledges
to remain with Naomi and to join with her people and worship God. At
the end of the book of Ruth, we find Naomi with a grandchild, born to
Ruth and a kinsman-redeemer named Boaz, who has married the
widow Ruth and taken her mother-in-law Naomi into his household (Ruth
4). Hope is restored to this family through God’s provision of
extended family members who show his love to one another.
I
experienced something like that in a church full of transplants.
People from many places became a large extended family to one
another. I especially remember a woman named Carol who had no
grandchildren but became a grandmother to my own
children.
One
purpose of the church is to reshape our understanding of family.
Being part of a church family means including people who are not
related by blood—except for the blood of Jesus.
The
early church quickly became a community in which people relied on one
another and even called each other brothers and sisters.
One
of the ongoing challenges of being a church family is to understand
that our relationships are to be shaped by our relationship with God.
God is making us into a family.
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May 04, 2018 God’s Purpose: Saving Many Lives
The
church is the carrier of the story of God and how God is creating a
new people to make up a community of grace. There are twists and
turns in the story, as we can see in the life of Joseph, for example.
A favored son gets sold into slavery by his jealous brothers.
When it seems like things might get better for Joseph, something else
happens and he lands in prison with no hope of release. Then God
gives Joseph the ability to interpret dreams to bring about not only
his release but also the saving of his family and many others from
famine. (See Genesis 37-49.)
Genesis
50 brings us to the moment when Joseph’s father, Jacob, has died,
and the brothers of Joseph worry that he might punish them. What
will Joseph do now as payback for all the wrong they had done to him?
Joseph
looks beyond their actions to the ultimate purpose of God. God
desires to save people. God desires to use people like Joseph—and
us—to bring about a new day and provide new life for his people.
In
this story we see a picture of how God is at work in the twists and
turns of life—and he is still at work in our lives today!
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May 03, 2018 House of God, Gate of Heaven
In
today’s verses, Jacob is on the run, but he is under the watchful
eye of God.
As
Jacob enters into sleep using a stone for a pillow, he receives a
vision. He sees an ongoing connection between heaven and earth, “a
stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven.”
And he sees angels not just ascending into heaven but also descending
to the earth, where they serve God among his people (Psalm 91:11).
Jacob called the place Bethel, which means “house of God.”
The
church of my growing-up years in Fulton, Illinois, was called Bethel.
It was situated on a hill near the Mississippi River. Growing up, I
did not see that church as being “awesome” or the “gate of
heaven,” but now, looking back, I see something that I did not see
then.
I
see more clearly than ever that my faith was molded within that
community. Along with memories of my parents, I remember a youth
counselor named Siebert, a pastor named Case, and a friend named Todd
who was always there for me.
When
we meet Jacob in Genesis 28, he is alone. He is not sure when,
if ever, he can return home again. And yet God reminds him that he is
not really alone. There is a connection between heaven and
earth. Today, we might even call that connection . . . a
church.
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May 02, 2018 Leaving and Blessing
As
a child and now as a parent, I have been a part of moments of
leaving. Tears are sometimes shed. Hugs are shared.
We
are not sure what kind of leaving Abram and his wife, Sarai, and
their nephew Lot experienced, but we do know that God called them on
a journey with him.
God
was on the move to redeem his world and to restore people to
himself—and we can see that in the promises of blessing that he
gave to Abram in Genesis 12.
God
works through people, and as he makes us his people—his family, his
church—God seeks to mold us as a people of blessing. God promised
Abram and his descendants abundant blessings, but those were never
meant to be just for them. They were called out as a family to become
a blessing to all families.
When
we think of leaving and blessing, we can also think of Jesus’
leaving from heaven to come and live with us. He came to bring us
grace and eternal life, but these gifts became available because
Jesus was willing to leave heaven for our sake.
Maybe
you are in a season of leaving. If so, may God give you strength for
the journey. And wherever you are, may you know that God wants to
bless people through you.
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May 01, 2018 Linking Us Together
Where
do we begin the story of the church? Bible teachers have wrestled
with that question for centuries. Volumes have been written in
attempts to provide an answer.
This
month Christians will commemorate Ascension Day and Pentecost as key
dates in the development of the early church. In some ways, we can
look at those events as “beginning” dates of the church, but then
we would miss some of the other beginnings that help us understand
the ministry of Jesus as well as those special days.
I
believe we can best understand the church by remembering God’s
original design. From the beginning of creation, God was linking
himself to us and our world. God was making room for us. He was
preparing in all his creativity a setting by which people, made in
his image, could work, play, worship, and rest in his presence.
When
we know God’s original design for this world, we have a deeper
understanding that the church is part of his renewal of all things by
developing a community in which God wants to show what real love
looks like.
Though
all of us human beings “have sinned and fall short of the glory of
God” (Romans 3:23), we have been made in his image for God’s
purposes, and he will never let us go.
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April 30, 2018 Living Joyfully, Powerfully, and Free!
As
our month of reflecting on living as Easter people comes to an end,
we know that our time of actually living as Easter people will
continue. For we are still waiting for Christ’s return.
Though
the effects of sin still harm and damage our world, we can live each
day in the confidence and hope of knowing that God loves us and will
never leave us. God is love, and his love is perfect, true, and good.
We continue to persevere through struggles and trials, leaning into
God, growing in our relationship with him through the Holy Spirit,
wrestling with the difficult tensions in the world, and letting God
lead us by his love. And even as we wait with expectancy and cry out
for Christ to come again soon, we seek to live in all the joy, power,
and freedom that the resurrection offers. The instructions Christ
gave to those first witnesses remain the same for all who claim the
resurrection today: “Go and tell the good news that Jesus is
alive!” (see Matthew 28:7, 19).
Remembering
with joy that “Christ is risen! He is risen indeed!” let us give
thanks and praise the Lord for all he has done: “To the only God
our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus
Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen.”
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April 29, 2018 Free to Love
The
first thing to do when solving a word problem in mathematics is to
figure out what exactly the problem is asking. We must figure out
what information is given and what is not. What are the constants
that never change and what are the variables? One of the secrets to
setting up the problem is to know how specific words are used in the
language of math. For instance, the word “is” means “equals,”
and when you see the word “is,” you know you can set up an
equation in which the parts equal each other. That’s very helpful
to know!
In
this passage on love, the apostle John sets up a simple, beautiful,
and yet remarkably complex equation: God
is love. And this helps us understand what it means to
live into the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
The
story of the relationship between God and creation is a story of
love. The life, death, and resurrection of Jesus tally up to the
ultimate embodiment of love. And when we seek to live into the
resurrection, we embody that love as well. God’s love frees us to
live out that love in relationship with one another.
There
is no fear in love. There is no shame in love. God and love can never
be separated. This is the constant that will never change.
In
what ways can you live out God’s love today?
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April 28, 2018 Free to Be Intentional
This
is one of my favorite verses in the Bible. It shows that although
Jesus wasn’t forced to do so, he “had
to go through Samaria.” This means he went intentionally, knowing
he had a mission to fulfill. And that was unusual, for in those days
Jews went out of their way not
to go through Samaria because the Jews and the Samaritans despised
one another.
Jesus,
in his close relationship with his Father, knew he had a job to do.
He had to go outside of the expected cultural and traditional norms
to offer grace and eternal life to a Samaritan woman, who then shared
the good news with her entire town (see John 4:27-32).
Living
in the freedom of the resurrection allows us to be intentional.
Jesus’ death and resurrection restored our relationship with God
and welcomes us to a place of full communion with him.
In
communion with God, we pray and listen to the Holy Spirit, who gives
us renewal and strength to go out and live intentionally, as Christ
did. We are to submit to one another and offer acceptance and grace
to everyone, including people outside our normal comfort zones—even
those who might be our enemies.
Today,
may the freedom and grace offered to you in Jesus empower you to
freely offer the same to others.
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