January 5
CHRIST our RIGHTEOUSNESS (1 Cor 1:30). J.A. von Poseck tells about two eager believers, but one had a deep sorrow: his wife was not saved. He, of the two, went to heaven first. Before he died, he asked his friend,...
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January 4
CHRIST our MASTER (Mt 8:19). “Master” is the translation of six Greek words. He is our Kurios (Mk 13:35; Eph 6:9), often translated Lord or owner and linked with kuriakon, anglicised to our word “church,” meaning “belonging to the Lord.”...
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January 3
CHRIST the SEEKER (Lk 19:10). F.B. Hole tells of Peter, a steeple-watch in the cathedral in Utrecht. A believer, he spent every available moment reading the Word. One blustery night he was interrupted by a wealthy townsman, Dr. Blankenhagen, an avid...
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January 2
“JESUS CHRIST the SAME yesterday, today, and forever” (Heb 13:8). In his classic, The Root of the Righteous, A.W. Tozer writes that fellowship with the Lord is “delightful beyond all telling. He communes with His redeemed ones in an easy...
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January 1
CHRIST the FIRST (Rev 1:17). On May 9, 1841, George Müller penned a pamphlet titled “First.” He writes: It has pleased the Lord to teach me a truth, the benefit of which I have not lost for more than 14 years…that...
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December 31
CHRIST the WAITING ONE: “The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand, till…” (Ps 110:1; Mt 22:44). As a fitting conclusion to our 366-day study of Christ, we conclude with a poem by George Weissel, written in...
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December 30
CHRIST the CAPTIVATOR: “When He ascended on high, He led captivity captive” (Eph 4:8). “…bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ” (2 Cor 10:5). We who were Satan’s captives have been set free, only to be captivated...
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December 29
CHRIST the MERCY SEAT: “Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood” (Rom 3:24-25). The word “propitiation” (hilasterion) can also be translated “mercy seat.”...
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December 28
CHRIST the MYSTERY: “Without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh” (1 Tim 3:16). We have invested a full year exploring the wonders of Christ. Yet surely we have only begun. It is “eternal...
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