Daily Bible Verse - Monday

Bible Recollection Of The Day - Monday

 

Bible Recollection Of The Day - Monday Galatians 5:1

This verse comes from the letter that Saint Paul writes to the Jews in Galatia. He reminds his readers that they are now Free in Christ Jesus and are not be bound in meaningless ritualism. His letter exhorts the Galatians to renounce their conformity to the Jewish law and to become entirely conformed to the gospel.

On a more personal note, imagine for a moment that you are a criminal condemned to life imprisonment. You stare at the same dank, dark walls of your prison in hopeless despair. You have noting to look forward to. Nothing.

Suddenly, one day your cell gate is thrown open and the guard takes you out in the open and says that you have been pardoned and that you are now Free.

The wonder, the excitement, the joy is too much for you to bear. You feel that your heart might burst open in happiness and the feeling of Freedom.

Now, after being given this new freedom, will you do anything that might get you back in that dank, dark, hopeless prison?

Romans 6:17-18
But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance. You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.

So it is when God pardons us our sins and releases us from whatever shame or prison that our heart and soul was before. Through Jesus Christ who laid down His life for you and redeemed you with His Precious Blood.

Freedom in Christ Jesus is Forever.
When He says you're Free, He means FREE.

Daily Bible Verse - Sunday

Bible Recollection Of The Day - Sunday

Bible Recollection Of The Day - Sunday Jeremiah 29:11

This verse comes from the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the elders, to the priests, to the prophets and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away as captives from Jerusalem to Babylon. The exiles at Babylon as those in Jerusalem at that time had the same determination never to submit quietly to a foreign rule.

As the exile was God's doing for their good, God spoke through the Prophet Jeremiah that, they were to make the best of their situation.They were to work for the peace and welfare of Babylon because their next seventy years was linked to that of Babylon. And after the 70 year exile God would bring about a restoration of Israel.

On a more personal note, we as a species are forever making plans. For tomorrow, and for the future. Planners are of two kinds. One who plan a rigid scenario and are at a total loss when things don't go according to plan. The second kind are flexi-planners often with a plan B, who fine-tune their plans according to the current scenario.

We plan because we are looking at the easiest way to get things done.

God on the other hand is planning the best way. Which brings us to the plans of God. What does God want for you? Answer: To spend eternity with Him. And He is planning the best way by which He can develop your faith and character necessary for you to make your earthly journey to Heaven.

Read Isaiah 55:8-12.

So the next time you find your plans frustrated in-spite of your constant prayers, remember He's got it in hand. What seems to be inconveniences and irritants are really blessings in disguise because His plans and ways are infinitely better than yours because they are plans of His Infinite Love.