General Daily Devotion: Our Daily Bread, 30 Jan 03

Our Daily Bread, Radio Bible Class ^ | 30 Jan 03 | Joanie Yoder

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January 30, 2003

Building A Life

Read: John 20:11-18

To me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain. —Philippians 1:21

Bible In One Year: Leviticus 8-10

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It was a sunny, sad day in 1982—the day after my husband's funeral. I had gone alone to Bill's grave, hardly knowing why. As with Mary Magdalene who visited Jesus' tomb, the risen Lord was waiting for me. He impressed the words of Philippians 1:21 on my mind, still numbed by Bill's untimely death from cancer.

I wove my prayer around the words of that verse: "Lord, how often I've heard Bill testify, 'For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.' Well, your servant has now died, an untold loss for us, an unspeakable gain for him. I know, Lord, that I too will die someday and enter that gain. But right now I'm still alive. I know I must not live in the past, precious as it is. For to me, to live is You!'"

As I turned to leave, I knew I had prayed a foundational prayer. Much recovery and rebuilding lay before me, but beneath me was the only firm foundation on which to build—Jesus Christ.

Has a loved one's death or the fear of your own death tested your foundation? Let Paul's words, written in the face of death, and Jesus' words to Mary encourage you to offer a foundational prayer of your own. Then begin to rebuild your life on the risen Christ! —Joanie Yoder

It matters not how dark the way,
How thick the clouds from day to day,
God will direct in all we do
If we take time to pray it through. —Mead

Life's best outlook is a prayerful uplook!

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Our Daily Bread ping

prayer, devotion, fellowship, reflection


We are comforted knowing that our High Priest has experienced all that we have. We are comforted knowing that He wept at the time of his friend, Lazarus', death. At that very moment, He knew that He was himself the resurrection and the life. He wept for all of us and for all the pain and all the separation that sin had brought about. But He was also the answer that would wipe away every tear. Hallelujah.

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Good Morning Saints!

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

Gal. 2:20

Even us potty mouths. Shine on children of light! Until then . . .

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Bump! It is wonderful to know He is always with us!