DAY 324 Read 1 Corinthians 15 and 16; Acts 19:23 through 20:1.
Today's reading: Among other errors the apostle sought to correct was a denial of the resurrection. After finishing the Corinthian letter, we turn back to Paul's experiences in Ephesus.
Memory gem: "If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept" (1 Corinthians 15:19, 20).
Thought for today:
Rich and poor, believer and unbeliever, saint and sinner, the brave man and the coward--we must all face the great enemy, death. Here we need one of the greatest of all chapters in the Bible, the fifteenth chapter of 1 Corinthians. Through our tears we can repeat its promises by the graveside of those we love.
The dead shall live again. Death is a temporary separation. We may die, but we shall live again if we are the children of God.
As far as a sinful man is concerned, death is the end. Science has done great things, but it cannot raise the dead. The greatest scientist on earth cannot bring life to the nonliving. Life comes only from antecedent life. Men can take life, but they cannot give life.
When you are near the valley of the shadow, think of these words: "We shall be changed....This mortal must put on immortality."
Pointing to the Congo River, David Livingstone asked the tribesmen of interior Africa, "Where does your great river go?" They always answered, "It is lost in the sands." They did not know that beyond the sands the mighty Congo flowed into a limitless ocean.
God's child is not lost in the sands of time, nor forever imprisoned in the narrow tomb, but he will find his way at last to the measureless ocean of God's immortality.
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Difficult or obscure words:
1 Corinthians 16:23. "Maranatha''--an Aramiac expression meaning "our Lord comes" or "our Lord, come."
Acts 19:24. "Diana"--the Greek goddess Artemis. The Roman Diana was not the same deity.
Today's reading: Among other errors the apostle sought to correct was a denial of the resurrection. After finishing the Corinthian letter, we turn back to Paul's experiences in Ephesus.
Memory gem: "If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept" (1 Corinthians 15:19, 20).
Thought for today:
Rich and poor, believer and unbeliever, saint and sinner, the brave man and the coward--we must all face the great enemy, death. Here we need one of the greatest of all chapters in the Bible, the fifteenth chapter of 1 Corinthians. Through our tears we can repeat its promises by the graveside of those we love.
The dead shall live again. Death is a temporary separation. We may die, but we shall live again if we are the children of God.
As far as a sinful man is concerned, death is the end. Science has done great things, but it cannot raise the dead. The greatest scientist on earth cannot bring life to the nonliving. Life comes only from antecedent life. Men can take life, but they cannot give life.
When you are near the valley of the shadow, think of these words: "We shall be changed....This mortal must put on immortality."
Pointing to the Congo River, David Livingstone asked the tribesmen of interior Africa, "Where does your great river go?" They always answered, "It is lost in the sands." They did not know that beyond the sands the mighty Congo flowed into a limitless ocean.
God's child is not lost in the sands of time, nor forever imprisoned in the narrow tomb, but he will find his way at last to the measureless ocean of God's immortality.
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Difficult or obscure words:
1 Corinthians 16:23. "Maranatha''--an Aramiac expression meaning "our Lord comes" or "our Lord, come."
Acts 19:24. "Diana"--the Greek goddess Artemis. The Roman Diana was not the same deity.
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