August 4
CHRIST the FRAGRANCE of GOD: “Your name is ointment poured forth” (Song 1:3). Here’s the amazing thing: unlike the holy anointing oil in Israel, which could not “be poured on man’s flesh” under penalty of being “cut off” (Ex 30:25-33),...
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August 3
CHRIST REVEALED: “It pleased God…to reveal His Son in me” (Gal 1:15-16). Andrew Murray writes, “In all our study and worship of Christ, we find our thoughts gathering round five points: the incarnate Christ, the crucified Christ, the enthroned Christ,...
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August 2
CHRIST the BEGINNING and the END: “I am…the Beginning and the End” (Rev 1:8; 21:6; 22:13). In Gen 1:1, the heavens and the earth were created; in Rev 21:1, they pass away, to be replaced. In Gen 1:5, the bounds...
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August 1
CHRIST OUR POSSESSION: “Be content with such things as you have” (Heb 13:5). What does this mean? To be content with a dilapidated house or an old car, slowly corroding with rust? Although being thankful for everything is an evidence...
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July 31
CHRIST the STABILIZER: “Therefore, my beloved and longed-for brethren, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, beloved” (Php 4:1). It’s a wobbly world out there and the foundations of society are being purposefully undermined by those who...
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July 30
CHRIST the REMAKER: “…so he made it again into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to make” (Jer 18:4). As new creatures in Christ, we are welcome in Heaven, where He has “made us sit together in...
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July 29
JESUS, SPEAKING through CHILDREN: “Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have perfected praise” (Mt 21:16). In 1880, James W.C. Fegan was on a camping trip in the country with some of the boys he had rescued...
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