Sunday review: May 30—June 4
There’s something different in the lives of those who have decided to follow Jesus. Many of the posts this week remind us how that’s true. Which one of these encourages you most?
May 30
These men were not ashamed of their eventual belief and discipleship, but they displayed courage to ask, to seek, and to serve.
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May 31
Our surrender of life to die with Jesus brings a resurrection now and later. . . . But the tug to hold onto what is familiar is strong.
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June 1
The spiritual transformation that occurred when we surrendered to Jesus resulted in the crucifixion of the works of the flesh. As new people, we now live the life of Jesus that expresses itself completely differently from the world. Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, and self-control are the characteristics of our daily lives. This fruit of the Spirit doesn’t exist as a decorative bowl of fruit on a table but is to be lived out in our relationships with each other.
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June 2
The sad part is that we are either beginning to enjoy the negative tone or it has become so common we don’t realize how far we have slipped from the clear message of Scripture that instructs us to love our neighbor as ourselves. This love is to flow naturally from first loving God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength.
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June 3
We take hope when we watch or hear some dear soul declare these truths after we have watched them walk through what we simply cannot imagine enduring. We see friends and strangers declaring praise and hope as they claw through their suffering with deep sorrow and grief. Everyone gets to the other side of great suffering eventually. It might be achieved only in the next life, but the slow recovery of another in this life stirs hope in us that we might endure as well.
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June 4
This beautiful treasure, the good news of God’s potential and purpose to redeem and transform, sustains us. But we all know it’s there for far more than self-help. A clay pot ready for the trash heap can hold a plant whose blossoms dazzle. And even though our bodies may be worse for wear, we can still make our lives reflections of God’s beautiful goodness. In a world bothered by so much that’s bad, we can see it’s never too late to bloom.
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