December 21
CHRIST the SWEET SAVOR: “And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma” (Eph 5:2). Years ago, I read a story in the...
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December 20
JESUS the BRIGHTNESS of GOD’S GLORY: “who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person” (Heb 1:3). Christ is here described as “the resplendent outbeaming of the essential glory of God” (Adam Clarke). He is...
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December 19
CHRIST the BREAD: “Lord, give us this bread always” (Jn 6:34). I recall hearing of an old Jewish lady, a survivor of the Holocaust, who lived with her son in a Manhattan mansion. In spite of lavish surroundings, she always...
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December 18
CHRIST the ANCIENT of DAYS: To understand this remarkable title, we need to compare two descriptions: Daniel 7:9-10 and Revelation 1:13-16. Daniel describes “the Ancient of Days” (which could be translated the Venerable One) whose “garment was white as snow,...
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December 17
CHRIST’S GUIDING EYE: “And the Lord turned and looked at Peter” (Lk 22:61). R.E. Speer writes: A Christian lawyer from Cripple Creek told me of an experience when he had gone to an old shepherd to ask for help as...
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December 16
CHRIST the ANGEL of the Lord: “In all their affliction He was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them; in His love and in His pity He redeemed them” (Isa 63:9). The Second Person of the Trinity is...
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December 15
CHRIST the PASSIONATE PREACHER: “Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?” (Mt 3:7). Christ did! Though they were a “brood of vipers,” He still wept over them and warned them. Take John Wesley’s Journal as an expression...
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