DAY 350 Read Hebrews 1 through 3.
Today's reading: We begin a survey of the important Epistle to the Hebrews--full of inspirational value and gems of truth.
Memory gem: "God...hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds" (Hebrews 1:1, 2).
Thought for today:
The earth itself, with all its scientific mysteries, is a memorial to the wisdom and power of the Son of God; and the glittering dome of night above us shows the works of His hands. This mighty Son, whose workmanship we see about us and above us, is none other than Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ of our salvation. He made the worlds.
The hand of Christ, the Master Workman, had been seen in the vast dome of stars long ages before Leeuwenhoek ground his first lenses or Galileo put them in the first telescope. As men began to peer out into the boundless void with stronger and stronger eyes--the mighty glasses of great astronomical observatories--they were struck with silent wonder at the awesome vastness of the universe. The human mind can have no conception of the endless and gigantic creation about us.
The creation testifies of its Creator as the eternal infinite God. "All thy works shall praise thee, O Lord," said David with the tongue of inspiration (Psalm 145:10). He must have been gazing out into the blue-black sky as there on the verdant meadows of heaven began to blossom, one by one, the lovely stars, "the forget-me-nots of the angels."
We rejoice in the human Christ, a humble Galilean carpenter; but we must know too that He was, and is, the Son of God Most High--that the very heavens are the work of His hands. His works praise Him when His worshipers are silent.
And the Son, by whose hand the heavens were created, emptied Himself of His infinite glory and veiled His divinity in a human form. He took our nature; He became a man and died for our sins on the cross that cruel men had made for Him at old Jerusalem. Christ's love and infinite humiliation in our redemption is as incomprehensible to us as is His work of creation. We cannot understand it all with our finite minds, but we can thank our heavenly Father for the gift of His Son, our Lord Jesus Christ.
Today's reading: We begin a survey of the important Epistle to the Hebrews--full of inspirational value and gems of truth.
Memory gem: "God...hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds" (Hebrews 1:1, 2).
Thought for today:
The earth itself, with all its scientific mysteries, is a memorial to the wisdom and power of the Son of God; and the glittering dome of night above us shows the works of His hands. This mighty Son, whose workmanship we see about us and above us, is none other than Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ of our salvation. He made the worlds.
The hand of Christ, the Master Workman, had been seen in the vast dome of stars long ages before Leeuwenhoek ground his first lenses or Galileo put them in the first telescope. As men began to peer out into the boundless void with stronger and stronger eyes--the mighty glasses of great astronomical observatories--they were struck with silent wonder at the awesome vastness of the universe. The human mind can have no conception of the endless and gigantic creation about us.
The creation testifies of its Creator as the eternal infinite God. "All thy works shall praise thee, O Lord," said David with the tongue of inspiration (Psalm 145:10). He must have been gazing out into the blue-black sky as there on the verdant meadows of heaven began to blossom, one by one, the lovely stars, "the forget-me-nots of the angels."
We rejoice in the human Christ, a humble Galilean carpenter; but we must know too that He was, and is, the Son of God Most High--that the very heavens are the work of His hands. His works praise Him when His worshipers are silent.
And the Son, by whose hand the heavens were created, emptied Himself of His infinite glory and veiled His divinity in a human form. He took our nature; He became a man and died for our sins on the cross that cruel men had made for Him at old Jerusalem. Christ's love and infinite humiliation in our redemption is as incomprehensible to us as is His work of creation. We cannot understand it all with our finite minds, but we can thank our heavenly Father for the gift of His Son, our Lord Jesus Christ.
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