DAY 11
THE FELLOWSHIP OF SINNERS
Luke
5:27-32
I am not
perfect.
I am God’s
work in progress.
God hates
my sin.
But He
loves me though I am a sinner.
You are
not perfect.
You are
God’s work in progress.
God hates
your sin.
But He
loves you though you are a sinner.
We are not
perfect.
We are
God’s work in progress.
God hates
our sins.
But He
loves us though we are sinners.
We are a
fellowship of sinners
Extra
special than all of creation
More
important than His life in Heaven
As costly
as the blood of Jesus.
For Jesus
came not for the healthy, but for the sick
For Jesus
calls not the righteous, but the sinners
We are a
fellowship of sinners
Called by
Jesus to repentance!
God loves
me, so why shouldn’t I love you?
You are my
brother. You are my sister.
As God
loves me, so I love you.
Though we
are a fellowship of sinners.
January
Samson
DAY 12
BE STRONG TAKE HEART
Psalm
31:24
To
be strong is not an easy thing to do daily. But as long as I keep hoping for
the Lord I can make it. Whatever
distraction in the office, at home, wherever I go and whatever I’ll be doing. I
have to keep my hope in the Lord and to stay strong when I am faced with a lot
of problems and hard times in life, even when my faith is being tested.
To
be strong is also resisting temptations daily, in keeping myself pure at all
times in thought and deed. I thank the
Lord for two consecutive weeks now that I have been victorious in my daily
temptations. I praise God for that. And yet I have to continue to be strong in
making a good decision daily because I really want to be victorious until the
end.
Rosalie
Natural
DAY 13
THE GREAT PRIVILEGE
2
Corinthians 5:20
As
I read this Scripture, it made me ask this question to myself: Am I eagerly doing the task God
entrusted me to do?
I
realized that God has hired me to be His ambassador, His very representative,
His messenger. I am working as a representative of an all-powerful, almighty
and a perfect Master! Every single moment of my life, I get to receive my
salary: His “great love”! Yet, I am not doing my job well. Am I not far from
being a corrupt officer who has used up all his salary but didn’t work hard for
it? Am I doing the things which could please my Master? Or the things which
could somehow pay back the love of God for me? Am I doing my job good enough to
receive such great salary?
Being
an ambassador of an all-powerful God makes me feel unworthy. How much more
unworthy could I have become if I won’t do the job God has given me (to
introduce other people to Him)!
God
is almighty, all-powerful, most wonderful, holy, perfect! I am nothing, weak,
imperfect, a sinner, yet God chose me (and you) to work with Him and to
represent Him in this world! Such a great privilege indeed! How can I represent
God with such weaknesses? Yet,
God has chosen us, He entrusted us that much and so we need to do our job so as
to please our Master and entrust us with more! Shall we then fail our Master’s
trust?
To
do the great mission for God comes along with a great privilege and a
challenge! Anywhere we are,, we are in a mission. Christians are always in a
mission field and we must never forget that we ALWAYS receive our salary: God’s
great love.
Wednelynn Padel
DAY 14
DO NOT LOVE THE WORLD
1
John 2:15-17
The
title DO NOT LOVE THE WORLD encourages me not to love all things here on earth.
1 John 2:16 says that “For everything in the world, the craving of sinful man,
the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does come not from the
father but from the world.”
We
are humans and sometimes we fall short on these areas. But verse 17 says that,
“The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God
lives forever”. In this verse encourages us that if we persevere here on earth,
we will have eternal life in heaven. So let us fight the good fight. Let us not
love the world but instead love God WHOLE HEARTEDLY.
Vivian
Belmonte
DAY 15
THE LORD IS MY GREAT HELPER
Psalm
21
To
whom do I ask for help?
I
ask for help from my family, friends, relatives even my classmates and
especially in the church to my brothers and sisters. I also make myself
available for them at times when they need my help, as long as I could. But
there are limitations because I can’t be with them and they can’t be with me
all the time. I also consider those times when they should not be disturbed,
especially in the middle of the night or if they are at a meeting, at work or
in class, even when I needed them the most.
But
there is the One whom we can turn to at the middle of the day or night, in
short at anytime... God is unlimited, no expiration, no time limit and no
battery low or limited battery like our mobile phones, when we communicate with
our friends and loved ones, especially those times when we need someone to talk
to or someone to listen to us.
As the Psalmist said, the Lord will keep us
from all harm. We are assured that the Lord is our great helper and wherever we
are and whenever, we can ask him for help.
Lord may your promise always be in my heart
and remind us always that You are our Great helper and we can turn to you
whenever and wherever we are! Amen.
Arcel
Nistal
