January 21
CHRIST our DELIGHT: “And the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to His temple, even the Messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight” (Mal 3:1). Neglect is the parent of desert lives. Only too well do we know...
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January 20
CHRIST the COMING ONE: “For yet a little while, and He who is coming will come and will not tarry” (Heb 10:37). F.E. Marsh writes: There is a pathos-filled incident in the life of Hugh Miller. He tells how, after...
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January 19
“CHRIST is ALL” (Col 3:11). Christ is all in creation and in control: “For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers....
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January 18
CHRIST UNSEEN yet SEEN: “The world will see Me no more, but you will see Me” (Jn 14:19). F.B. Meyer writes, “We may enjoy the perpetual recognition of the presence of Christ. Nothing makes men so humble yet so strong...
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January 17
CHRIST the ALTOGETHER LOVELY ONE (Song of Sol 5:16): This world, though fallen, still catches us by surprise with its beauty. Who can capture in words the blazing hues of the autumn foliage somehow painted on the leaves by the pale...
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January 16
CHRIST’S NAME ABOVE EVERY NAME (Php 2:9). Early Christians often referred to “the Name” as though the word stood for the Lord Jesus Himself, as if there was no other name that mattered. We read how they preached concerning the...
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January 15
CHRIST the WORD of GOD (Rev 19:13): The Lord Jesus Christ dominates the Scriptures as the sun dominates our solar system. As the Eternal Son, He acts through creation and history. As the virgin’s Son, He joins the stream of...
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January 14
CHRIST the CAPTOR of our THOUGHTS. The weapons Paul used were not fleshly, but mighty through God—the weapons which the Holy Spirit supplies. And this spiritual warfare means “the pulling down of strongholds, casting down imaginations, and every high thing...
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January 13
“We preach CHRIST CRUCIFIED” (1 Cor 1:23). What self-respecting Jew would ever glory in a cross, the embodiment of a curse and shame? Erich Sauer writes in his classic In the Arena of Faith: Years ago we were in the...
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