November 15: Glad Tidings.
The Word Is the Light Sought by Many.
So it was, when Jesus returned, that the multitude welcomed Him, for they were all waiting for Him.--Luke 8:40, NKJV
THE TRUTH THAT WE HEAR will save us only as we gladly accept it, showing in our lives the result of its working, growing in grace and in a knowledge of God.--Notebook Leaflets From the Elmshaven Library, vol. 1, 13.
Christ "came unto His own, and His own received Him not." John 1:11. The light of God shone into the darkness of the world, and "the darkness comprehended it not." John 1:5. But not all were found indifferent to the gift of heaven....In different nations there were earnest and thoughtful men who had sought in literature and science and the religions of the heathen world for that which they could receive as the soul's treasure. Among the Jews there were those who were seeking for that which they had not. Dissatisfied with a formal religion, they longed for that which was spiritual and uplifting. Christ's chosen disciples belonged to the latter class, Cornelius and the Ethiopian eunuch to the former. They had been longing and praying for light from heaven; and when Christ was revealed to them, they received Him with gladness.--Christ's Object Lessons, 116.
There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius,
a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment,
a devout man and one who feared God with all his household,
who gave alms generously to the people, and prayed to God always....
...And those of the circumcision who believed were astonished,
as many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit
had been poured out on the Gentiles also.
--Luke 10:1, 2, 45, NKJV
The Word Is the Light Sought by Many.
So it was, when Jesus returned, that the multitude welcomed Him, for they were all waiting for Him.--Luke 8:40, NKJV
THE TRUTH THAT WE HEAR will save us only as we gladly accept it, showing in our lives the result of its working, growing in grace and in a knowledge of God.--Notebook Leaflets From the Elmshaven Library, vol. 1, 13.
Christ "came unto His own, and His own received Him not." John 1:11. The light of God shone into the darkness of the world, and "the darkness comprehended it not." John 1:5. But not all were found indifferent to the gift of heaven....In different nations there were earnest and thoughtful men who had sought in literature and science and the religions of the heathen world for that which they could receive as the soul's treasure. Among the Jews there were those who were seeking for that which they had not. Dissatisfied with a formal religion, they longed for that which was spiritual and uplifting. Christ's chosen disciples belonged to the latter class, Cornelius and the Ethiopian eunuch to the former. They had been longing and praying for light from heaven; and when Christ was revealed to them, they received Him with gladness.--Christ's Object Lessons, 116.
There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius,
a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment,
a devout man and one who feared God with all his household,
who gave alms generously to the people, and prayed to God always....
...And those of the circumcision who believed were astonished,
as many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit
had been poured out on the Gentiles also.
--Luke 10:1, 2, 45, NKJV
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