Romans 6:23
The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
What of Today’s Verse…
When we get death for sin, we’re only being paid what we’re owed — sin is rebellion against the God who loves us and gave us his most precious gift to redeem us from sin! But God’s gift is free — eternal life in Jesus Christ. He gave it without our assurance of following.
Let us Pray:
Thank you, God, for loving me when no one else could or would. Thank you for sacrificing the most precious gift of heaven so I could join you there. Of all the gifts I’ve ever received, yours is the best. This thanksgiving I offer through the gift that set me free! Amen
Words of Wisdom
Approved Unto God
If you cannot express yourself on any subject, struggle until you can. If you do not, someone will be the poorer all the days of his life. Struggle to re-express some truth of God to yourself, and God will use that expression to someone else. Go through the winepress of God where the grapes are crushed. You must struggle to get expression experimentally, then there will come a time when that expression will become the very wine of strengthening to someone else; but if you say lazily – “I am not going to struggle to express this thing for myself, I will borrow what I say,” the expression will not only be of no use to you, but of no use to anyone. Try to state to yourself what you feel implicitly to be God’s truth, and you give God a chance to pass it on to someone else through you.
Always make a practice of provoking your own mind to think out what it accepts easily. Our position is not ours until we make it ours by suffering. The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance.
“Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” 2 Timothy 2:15
