Every Day with Jesus: Treasure for the Heart

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You may be well acquainted with it – Elisha is being hunted down by the king of Aram, but he doesn’t fret. It is interesting here to read that Priscilla is active in helping; in fact, her name comes before Aquila’s. Paul wrote to this church which he’d likely not visited, but had grown out of his mission to Ephesus through the conversion of Epaphras. It may have crossed your mind that it seems pernickety of God to plunge the whole human race into sin because of one transgression regarding a choice in the Garden of Eden restaurant. The first line of this story of Elisha’s performing God’s miracle for a widow and her children gives us a clue about the context.

Adam and Eve have been placed in a beautiful garden, where they walk with God, enjoy His fellowship, and each other’s. Charles will be anointed and acclaimed King by the gathered assembly with the words, ‘God save the King! Evidently Timothy’s parents (and grandparents) knew the verse, for he had been taught the Scriptures from infancy. The apostle Paul is thrilled that the good news of Jesus is making such an impact across the Roman world.

One man who took this seriously was Frank Laubach, a missionary to the Philippine islands in the early part of the twentieth century. Or when we lift our voices and hands in worship amongst hundreds of others while marvelling at God’s palpable love and grace. If you love talking about the defence of Christianity over against alternative approaches, then verse 15 is your verse. The narrator tells us of the craftiness of the serpent (3:1), as if to suggest that the succeeding narrative may not be all that it seems, and so begins the journey for Eve and Adam to eat the prohibited fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

One consistent challenge in the Christian life is the impossibility of proving God through empirical method, something based on verifiable evidence drawn from observation rather than theory. We might distinguish between those who’ve asked Jesus to save them from their sins and those who have made Him Lord of their lives.Author: AnonymousIn some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Jesus is said to be indignant on two occasions in the Gospels: when the disciples stopped children approaching Him (Mark 10:14), and here when the man with leprosy approached Him. Paul never forgets that people flourish in their faith in the triune God through His merciful action, for although we respond to the Lord’s loving invitation, He is the one who effects change.

Each day has its own theme: the page suggests a short Bible reading, gives a devotional explanation (about 300 words), makes suggestions for further Bible readings on the same subject, and includes a short prayer. False teachers there have been trying to entice the Christians with promises of secret knowledge to enhance their spiritual experience. There’s a vision, and a promise that follows a heartfelt entreaty; essentially, Abram questions God about the blessing God wants to bestow, because he has no progeny, a blessing that seems to have been withheld (v3).The introductory words on Timothy in the book of Acts (16:1) suggest that it may have been just his mum doing the teaching.

It is absolutely important that we articulate clearly the truth of the gospel and have wise and thoughtful responses to those who question our faith. Thankfully, the life, death and resurrection of Jesus leaves us with some very different methods from those of Jehu. Not only does God work by imparting His wisdom, as we saw yesterday, but sometimes He does something miraculous through the things of His creation. Although the other six stalls were empty, no one had bothered to check whether or not they were free. This man became a ‘dear fellow servant’ of Paul and Timothy (v7) and planted churches in several areas, including at his home of Colossae.The apostle Peter is telling his readers about the inheritance that is kept for believers in heaven, that ‘can never perish, spoil or fade’ (v4). Scattered throughout what is today Turkey, these disciples found themselves the unwitting scapegoats for Nero’s personal plans for grandeur. The burden of guilt and shame is such for the brothers that they cannot accept blessing without adding to their guilt and shame. Though they spent their money on the finest plants and imported vines, at the harvest they would only reap rot and pain.