DAY 320 Read 1 Corinthians 2 through 5.
Today's reading: As Paul begins to deal with the problems in the Corinthian church, he first exalts Jesus Christ as the only hope of salvation; then he plunges into a treatment of the epidemic of sin.
Memory gem: "I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified" (1 Corinthians 2:2).
Thought for today:
A few people were watching a blind man who had taken his stand on a bridge in a certain great city where he was reading from his Braille Bible. A man on his way home paused a moment out of curiosity--he wondered what was going on.
Just then the blind man was reading Acts 4:12: "For there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved." And as the man looked on, the blind man lost his place. While trying to find it with his fingers he kept repeating the last words he had read: "None other name, none other name!"
Some laughed at his embarrassment, but his man on the edge of the group walked away deeply impressed, for he had been under conviction of sin for some time. He had altered his habits, he had made good resolutions, he had performed religious exercises, but still he hadn't found peace.
Ringing in his ears were those words: "None other name, none other name!"--the words the blind man had been repeating. When he retired at night, those worlds kept chiming in his soul: "None other name, none other name!"
At last he found the victory. "I see it now," he said. "I have been trying to find peace through my works, my resolutions, my reformation, my prayers. It is Jesus alone who can save me. Lord, I receive You as my Saviour." From that moment the joy of salvation was his.
Oh, friend, there is no other name in earth or heaven, no other name but His. In no other name may we be forgiven. Will you not accept Him here and now?
Today's reading: As Paul begins to deal with the problems in the Corinthian church, he first exalts Jesus Christ as the only hope of salvation; then he plunges into a treatment of the epidemic of sin.
Memory gem: "I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified" (1 Corinthians 2:2).
Thought for today:
A few people were watching a blind man who had taken his stand on a bridge in a certain great city where he was reading from his Braille Bible. A man on his way home paused a moment out of curiosity--he wondered what was going on.
Just then the blind man was reading Acts 4:12: "For there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved." And as the man looked on, the blind man lost his place. While trying to find it with his fingers he kept repeating the last words he had read: "None other name, none other name!"
Some laughed at his embarrassment, but his man on the edge of the group walked away deeply impressed, for he had been under conviction of sin for some time. He had altered his habits, he had made good resolutions, he had performed religious exercises, but still he hadn't found peace.
Ringing in his ears were those words: "None other name, none other name!"--the words the blind man had been repeating. When he retired at night, those worlds kept chiming in his soul: "None other name, none other name!"
At last he found the victory. "I see it now," he said. "I have been trying to find peace through my works, my resolutions, my reformation, my prayers. It is Jesus alone who can save me. Lord, I receive You as my Saviour." From that moment the joy of salvation was his.
Oh, friend, there is no other name in earth or heaven, no other name but His. In no other name may we be forgiven. Will you not accept Him here and now?
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