24/7/52

October 12, 2017

24/7/52

Work hard for sin your whole life and your pension is death. But God’s gift is real life, eternal life, delivered by Jesus, our Master.

Romans 6:23 (MSG)

Read: Romans 6:20-23

Paul understood that there are two ages: the present age and the age to come. The present age is our experience in the fallen world, a world dominated by sin and forces of evil. The age to come is when God will put all things right in the world he created. Paul also understood that Jesus’ life and death foreshadowed the age to come in two important ways. First, Jesus reveals God’s unfailing love for humankind and the first coming, or advent of Christ, is the ground of our hope in the Second Coming of Christ to inherit his Kingdom.  

Secondly, Jesus brings his coming Kingdom forward into this present age as his followers chose to give themselves wholeheartedly and full-time into God’s way of doing things. It is really that simple. As the followers of Christ live for God today, they reveal to the world what it will be like to live under the reign of God. You only have to look at the out-pouring of sacrificial love in times of natural disasters, such as the recent hurricanes or the recent tragedy in Las Vegas, to see how God’s people are modeling God’s love to a fallen world.

My Takeaway: I rejoice in seeing so many examples of the love of Christ displayed as Christians reach out to help those in need during times of crisis. My hope for my life, and for those longing for the coming Kingdom with me, is that the life of Christ on display during times of crisis becomes our way of life, 24/7/52.

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com.

Copyright © 2017 by Alex M. Knight

Publications by Alex M. Knight:

·        Seeking the Life in Christ, Meditations on the New Testament and Psalms has been published and is now available at Amazon.com in paperback and Kindle.

·        The second edition of  First Think – Then Pray is available on Amazon Kindle.

·        Meditations on The Story of My Life as told by Jesus Christ has been released as an e-book on Amazon Kindle.

Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.