Awesome reading I just love pondering and deepening my relationship with Abba God His promises endures forever and His love unconditional I encourage everyone to read: Morning Reading for March 25 Luke 7:11-17 Jesus Raises the Son of the Widow of Nain 11 Now it happened, the day after, that He went into a city called Nain; and many of His disciples went with Him, and a large crowd. 12 And when He came near the gate of the city, behold, a dead man was being carried out, the only son of his mother; and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the city was with her. 13 When the Lord saw her, He had compassion on her and said to her, “Do not weep.” 14 Then He came and touched the open coffin, and those who carried him stood still. And He said, “Young man, I say to you, arise.” 15 So he who was dead sat up and began to speak. And He presented him to his mother. 16 Then fear came upon all, and they glorified God, saying, “A great prophet has risen up among us”; and, “God has visited His people.” 17 And this report about Him went throughout all Judea and all the surrounding region. Suggested further reading: 1 Corinthians 15:50-58 Our Final Victory 50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption. 51 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed— 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” 55 “O Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory?” 56 The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. What sorrow sin has brought into the world! Here we have the death of the only son of a widowed mother. All this misery is the result of sin. God made all things very good (Gen. 1:31 Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.) but sin entered the world and death through sin (Rom. 5:12 DEATH IN ADAM, LIFE IN CHRIST 12 Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned--). This world is full of sickness, pain, infirmity, poverty, labour and trouble. Universally the history of families is full of lamentation, weeping, mourning and woe. It can all be traced to sin. How much we ought to hate sin! Instead of loving it, cleaving to it, dallying with it, excusing it, playing with it, we ought to hate it with a deadly hatred, waging a ceaseless warfare against it, abhorring it (Rom. 12:9 BEHAVE LIKE A CHRISTIAN 9 Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good). How deep is the compassion of our Lords heart! He did not wait to be applied to for help but addressed the weeping mother (v. 13). A few seconds later the meaning of his words became plain. The widows son was restored to her alive. Her darkness was turned into light and her sorrow into joy. Our Lord has not changed (Heb. 13:8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever). His heart is still as compassionate. His sympathy with sufferers is still as strong. There is no friend or comforter who can be compared to Christ. In all our days of darkness, which must needs be many, let us turn first to Christ for comfort. He will never fail us, never disappoint us, never refuse to take interest in our sorrows. He lives to heal the broken-hearted and to be a Friend that sticks closer than a brother. What almighty power our Lord has to bring the dead corpse back to life! He speaks to a dead corpse and at once it becomes a living person. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, the heart, the lungs, the brain, the senses again resume their work and discharge their duties (vv. 14-15). This is a pledge of the solemn resurrection. This same Jesus that raised one man shall one day raise all (John 5:28-29 28 Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice 29 and come forth—those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation). When the trumpet sounds and Christ commands, there can be no refusal or escape. All must appear before him in their bodies to be judged. For meditation: Pause and ask the question: `Am I ready to meet God?
Posted on: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 01:22:45 +0000
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