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23 December 2024 |
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Today God says:
"Your love for Me is better than any sacrifice".
He promises me:
"And to love Him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices". (Mark 12:33)
My response to the word:
The theme of my life today will be, "And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength; this is the first commandment. And the second is like it, You shall love your neighbour as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these".
My prayer:
Lord, I will obey Your Word through love, because I know that love is the fulfilment of the Your law. Let Your love flow into me, through me, and out of me.
Today's scriptures:
"If you love me, you will obey me commandments". (John 14:15 GW) "We love because God first loved us". (1 John 4:19 GW) "Dear friends, we must love each other because love comes from God". (1 John 4:7 GW)
Quote for today:
Love so amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all. (Isaac Watts)
On this day:
"Scriptures are taken from the King James Bible or those marked (GW) are from the God's Word Translation, used with permission".
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On 23rd December 1722, John Brown was born at Carpow, Perthshire, Scotland. His education was scanty and after both of his parents died when he was about 12, he became a shepherd. He experienced a Christian conversion and taught himself Greek, Latin and Hebrew by comparing texts and scripts. In 1738, after hearing that the Greek New Testament was available in a bookshop, he left his sheep with a friend and walked 24 miles to St Andrews to buy a copy. There Francis Pringle, a professor of Greek, challenged him to read it, saying that he would buy it for him if he could do so; Brown succeeded. In 1751 he became pastor of the church in Haddington, where he died in 1787, at age 64 years. He wrote "The Self-Interpreting Bible", "The Dictionary of the Bible", and "A General History of the Christian Church".
On 23rd December 1841, Handley C.G. Moule, Anglican theologian, was born. He succeeded B.F. Westcott in 1901 as Bishop of Durham. A profound scholar, he could nevertheless speak and write for ordinary people, and published commentaries on nearly all of Paul's letters in the New Testament. He died in Cambridge at age 78 years.