May 10
CHRIST the INTROSPECTOR: “Jesus…knew all men, and had no need that anyone should testify of man, for He knew what was in man” (Jn 2:24-25). Says C.H. Spurgeon, “A healthy man hardly knows whether he has a stomach or a...
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May 9
CHRIST the FINISHER: “Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith” (Heb 12:2). The Lord Jesus will finish in us what He began (Php 1:6). On September 4, 1869, at age 37, Hudson Taylor found a letter waiting...
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May 8
CHRIST the DELIVERER: “The Deliverer will come out of Zion, and He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob; for this is My covenant with them, when I take away their sins” (Rom 11:26-27). The Lord Jesus did not agonize at...
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May 7
CHRIST the MAN of SORROWS: “He is despised and rejected by men, a Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief” (Isa 53:3). C.H. Spurgeon writes, “Sometimes God sends His love letters in black-edged envelopes. He allows us to taste the...
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May 6
CHRIST the RANSOM: “Then He is gracious to him, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down to the Pit; I have found a ransom’” (Job 33:24). In most cases, during a kidnapping, a ransom price is demanded under threat of...
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May 5
CHRIST the LIFE-GIVING SPIRIT: “The last Adam became a life-giving spirit” (1 Cor 15:45). “It ought not to be passed by,” says Dr Lightfoot, “that Adam, receiving from God the promise of Christ—that the seed of the woman shall bruise...
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May 4
CHRIST the AUTHOR of ETERNAL SALVATION (Heb 5:9): General William Booth (1829-1912), founder of the Salvation Army, looked into the future and warned what he saw as the dangers ahead: “1. Christianity without Christ; 2. Religion without the Holy Spirit;...
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