January 10
CHRIST ALWAYS WITH YOU (Mt 28:20). F.B. Meyer writes: “In the early morning, as soon as you awake, remember that you are in the very presence of God, who has been watching beside you through the long, dark hours; look...
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January 9
CHRIST our CAPTAIN (Heb 2:12). “It was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the Captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings” (Heb 2:10). Faith...
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January 8
CHRIST the PRIZE (Php 3:14). James Gunn, in “The Christian’s Ambition,” explains that the word philotimeomai is found just 3x in the NT. Variously translated, it means something like “a desire or love for doing the honorable thing,” a good...
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January 7
CHRIST the REDEEMER (Isa 59:20). My friend Gerald and I were visiting some believers living along the shore of the beautiful Gaspé Peninsula in Québec. En route, we stopped on a high promontory overlooking the famous Percé Rock. Perched beside...
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January 6
CHRIST our LIFE (Col 3:4). C.H. Mackintosh writes: God looks for reality. He is not satisfied with mere words of high profession. He says to us, “My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue, but in...
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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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