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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December 14
CHRIST the INHERITANCE SHARER: “If children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ” (Rom 8:17). Think of it, Christian! James Hastings writes: We are heirs of our Lord’s attributes. Is He omnipotent? His omnipotence is ours, to be...
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December 13
CHRIST the AWAKENER: “Our friend Lazarus sleeps, but I go that I may wake him up” (Jn 11:11). R.J. Campbell writes: It happened…that my only child fell ill, and for a time, as it seemed, dangerously ill. One day she...
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December 12
JESUS the DOER of GREAT THINGS: The Lord Jesus instructed the former demoniac of Gadara, “Return to your own house, and tell what great things God has done for you” (Lk 8:39). But what did he do? “He went his...
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December 11
CHRIST the CAPTAIN: “It was fitting for Him,…in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings” (Heb 2:10). Archibald Alexander writes: I heard lately of a beautiful instance of a poor man’s trust...
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