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| I have a storehouse! Have had it all the time but don't think about it much. It is within me...according to Proverbs 2. I have been working hard to store up valuable stuff lately; whole chapters of the Psalms, passages from the Epistles, etc. The rewards are huge if I store this stuff up and go through it and keep it fresh in my mind; understanding, knowledge of God, wisdom, victory protection, understanding of right and wrong, etc., etc., Check out Proverbs 2 and look into your storehouse. Is it junky and stinkin'? God's supplies are fresh and sweet.
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| I have finally gotten back into reading some of the classics. I can't believe how enjoyable Charles Dickens is to me after the many years since I picked him up. It is like fresh, cold water on a hot summer day. We had watched a recent version of Oliver Twist on PBS and it was far enough off the mark that I knew I had to go back and read the original to set it straight in my mind. This led to David Copperfield and now to the world of Pip. This latest book hadn't been checked out of the library since '96. Sad!
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| Well, then, here it is:
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come. All this is from God who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.
Anybody else hanging your hat on a verse or two for the year?
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| Debbie and I are trying to read through the Bible out loud. So each morning that we can we read a day in the "One Year Chronological Bible" and pray together. It's a habit now and I wish I could say it has always been that way but it has only been in the last 3 or 4 years. Hopefully that will be an encouragement to someone.
Anyway, today's reading included John 6:60-71 and Jesus, early in his first pastorate, lost some of his congregation. He was basically laying his cards on the table as to his true identity and some couldn't handle it and they left. However, the thing that struck me as never before was that Judas stayed...even though Jesus made the indirect declaration that one of the gang was a devil. It seems as if he should have received a letter of excommunication after Jesus had called the deacons together for a discipline meeting. But, no, he keeps him on as the treasurer and, here's what is fantastic, he must have shown just as much love to Judas as the rest! Isn't that incredible? He even served him communion in the end. Just before the payoff.
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