Christ as the Milk and the Stone (1)

Christ as the Milk and the Stone (1)

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1Pet 2:2 As newborn babes, long for the guileless milk of
the word in order that by it you may grow unto salvation, 3
If you have tasted that the Lord is good. 4 Coming to Him,
a living stone, rejected by men but with God chosen and
precious,

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Words of Ministry~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

(Part 1 of 2)
According to verse 4, we need to come to Christ as the living
stone. But what is the way to come to Him? We come to the
Lord by drinking the milk of the word. Have you ever realized
that when you are drinking milk from the word, that is your
coming to the Lord? What is the milk in the word? That milk
is the Lord Himself. Therefore, when we drink the milk, we
come to the Lord. Do you have some other way of coming to the
food you eat? What is your way of coming to the food? Do you
not come to it by eating it? We all come to the food by
eating it. The same is true with respect to coming to Christ
as the living stone. In verse 4 the word "coming" is equal to
drinking. Therefore, when we drink the milk, we come to the
Lord.

We have pointed out that Peter seems to leap from the milk-
Christ to the stone-Christ. This implies that the milk
becomes the stone. How can this be? With us, this is
impossible, but it is not impossible with the Lord, because
He is all-inclusive. As the all-inclusive One, Christ is
milk, and He is also the stone. We are not able to exhaust
all the aspects of Christ. He is the milk, He is the bread,
and now we see that He is the stone.
(Continued tomorrow)

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(c) 2007 Living Stream Ministry. Bible verses are taken from
the Recovery Version of the Bible and Words of Ministry, from
Witness Lee, Life-study of First Peter, pp. 138-139. Both are
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Daily Wisdom NIV : Psalm 34:14

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Who Thanks God for This?, by Bill Sherrill

In our prayers, we commonly plead with God for strength of body and
good health. We come often in times of trouble. What is much less
common are prayers offered in gratitude for the fact that we, and our
loved ones are, in fact, strong and well. For most of us, it is almost
unbelievable that anyone should give thanks to the Lord for illness or
handicaps. Yet there are many instances of individuals who have done
just that. Men and women who feel that their special gift may well have
depended upon the apparent disability they possess. The best most can
hope for is to learn to accept and find peace with a handicap, but
some, seeing a greater scope of God's grace, actually rejoice in the
doors opened by the shift of emphasis.

Fanny J. Crosby was certainly one of these. At the age of six months,
Fanny was blinded by a poultice placed on her eyes. Rather than
developing with a nature of gloom and anger she showed her bright and
tender spirit early in her life. When she was only eight years old she
wrote:

O what a happy soul am I!
Although I cannot see,
I am resolved that in this world
Contented I will be.

How many blessings I enjoy,
That other people don't;
To weep and sigh because I'm blind,
I cannot and I won't!

While she may not be remembered as one of America's greatest poets, she
certainly is remembered as one of the truly special writers of
Christian songs. Just to mention a few of the more than 8,000:

She was blessed with more acute vision.

* "Safe In The Arms Of Jesus"

* "All The Way My Savior Leads Me"

* "Jesus Is Tenderly Calling Thee Home"

* "I Am Thine, O Lord"

* "Jesus, Keep Me Near The Cross"

The spirit for finding the good in what others saw as a handicap was
seen clearly as she spoke with a Scottish minister who had remarked, "I
think it is a great pity that the Master, when He showered you with so
many gifts, did not give you sight."

She answered, "Do you not know that, if at birth I had been able to
make one petition to my Creator, it would have been that I should be
born blind." "Why?" ask the surprised minister. "Because, when I get to
heaven, the first face that shall ever gladden my sight will be that of
my Savior," was the unexpected reply.

Fanny J. Crosby was not blind! She was blessed with more acute vision
than most of us will ever possess.

[The LORD says] "I will bring the blind by a way they did not know;
I will lead them in paths they have not known. I will make darkness
light before them, And crooked places straight. These things I will
do for them, And not forsake them" (Isaiah 42:16 NKJV).

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MORNING:

"Them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him."
-- 1&nbsp;Thessalonians 4:14

Let us not imagine that the soul sleeps in insensibility. "Today shalt
thou be with me in paradise," is the whisper of Christ to every dying
saint. They "sleep in Jesus," but their souls are before the throne of
God, praising him day and night in his temple, singing hallelujahs to
him who washed them from their sins in his blood. The body sleeps in
its lonely bed of earth, beneath the coverlet of grass. But what is
this sleep? The idea connected with sleep is "rest," and that is the
thought which the Spirit of God would convey to us. Sleep makes each
night a Sabbath for the day. Sleep shuts fast the door of the soul, and
bids all intruders tarry for a while, that the life within may enter
its summer garden of ease. The toil-worn believer quietly sleeps, as
does the weary child when it slumbers on its mother's breast. Oh! happy
they who die in the Lord; they rest from their labours, and their works
do follow them. Their quiet repose shall never be broken until God
shall rouse them to give them their full reward. Guarded by angel
watchers, curtained by eternal mysteries, they sleep on, the inheritors
of glory, till the fulness of time shall bring the fulness of
redemption. What an awaking shall be theirs! They were laid in their
last resting place, weary and worn, but such they shall not rise. They
went to their rest with the furrowed brow, and the wasted features, but
they wake up in beauty and glory. The shrivelled seed, so destitute of
form and comeliness, rises from the dust a beauteous flower. The winter
of the grave gives way to the spring of redemption and the summer of
glory. Blessed is death, since it, through the divine power, disrobes
us of this work-day garment, to clothe us with the wedding garment of
incorruption. Blessed are those who "sleep in Jesus."

EVENING:

"Howbeit, in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of
Babylon, who sent unto him to enquire of the wonder that was
done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know
all that was in his heart."
-- 2&nbsp;Chronicles 32:31

Hezekiah was growing so inwardly great, and priding himself so much
upon the favour of God, that self-righteousness crept in, and through
his carnal security, the grace of God was for a time, in its more
active operations, withdrawn. Here is quite enough to account with the
Babylonians; for if the grace of God should leave the best Christian,
there is enough of sin in his heart to make him the worst of
transgressors. If left to yourselves, you who are warmest for Christ
would cool down like Laodicea into sickening lukewarmness: you who are
sound in the faith would be white with the leprosy of false doctrine;
you who now walk before the Lord in excellency and integrity would reel
to and fro, and stagger with a drunkenness of evil passion. Like the
moon, we borrow our light; bright as we are when grace shines on us, we
are darkness itself when the Sun of Righteousness withdraws himself.
Therefore let us cry to God never to leave us. "Lord, take not thy Holy
Spirit from us! Withdraw not from us thine indwelling grace! Hast thou
not said, 'I the Lord do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest
any hurt it, I will keep it night and day'? Lord, keep us everywhere.
Keep us when in the valley, that we murmur not against thy humbling
hand; keep us when on the mountain, that we wax not giddy through being
lifted up; keep us in youth, when our passions are strong; keep us in
old age, when becoming conceited of our wisdom, we may therefore prove
greater fools than the young and giddy; keep us when we come to die,
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My Utmost For His Highest : "Direction Of Discipline"

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DIRECTION OF DISCIPLINE

And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off and cast
it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of
thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body
should be cast into hell.

Matthew 5:30

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Jesus did not say that everyone must cut off the right hand, but - If
your right hand offends you in your walk with Me, cut it off. There
are many things that are perfectly legitimate, but if you are going
to concentrate on God you cannot do them. Your right hand is one of
the best things you have, but, says Jesus, if it hinders you in
following His precepts, cut it off. This line of discipline is the
sternest one that ever struck mankind.

When God alters a man by regeneration, the characteristic of the life
to begin with is that it is maimed. There are a hundred and one
things you dare not do, things that to you and in the eyes of the
world that knows you are as your right hand and your eye, and the
unspiritual person says - Whatever is wrong in that? How absurd you
are! There never has been a saint yet who did not have to live a
maimed life to start with. But it is better to enter into life maimed
and lovely in God's sight than to be lovely in man's sight and lame
in God's. In the beginning Jesus Christ by His Spirit has to check
you from doing a great many things that may be perfectly right for
everyone else but not right for you. See that you do not use your
limitations to criticize someone else.

It is a maimed life to begin with, but in v.48 Jesus gives the
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Dear Father,

Thank you for giving us your Spirit, not through works of law but
through faith in our hearts. Even Abraham was saved by faith, for
he believed you, and you counted it to him as righteousness.

Thank you that Christ actually became the curse so that he could
redeem us from its power, that the blessing of Abraham might come
upon all nations, Jews and non-Jews, and that we might receive the
promise of the Spirit through faith.

Make us ever aware of the responsibilities as well as the rights
which this relationship affords us.

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Purified

"Every person will be punished with fire."

-- Mark 9:49 (ERV)

KEY THOUGHT:
The real character of our lives will not be left in doubt. Facades will
fall. Hidden secrets will be revealed. Well-camouflaged sins will be
brought out in the open. Every action will be made clear. Nothing can
be hidden from the purifier's fire. All that is dross will be removed.
Only what is pure will remain.

TODAY'S PRAYER:
O LORD God Almighty, the judge of all people, I pray that the defects,
impurities, and dross in my life will be purified in my life now so
that you will be glorified in my life both now and in the day of
judgement. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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Today's Verse : John 6:29

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June 29, 2008

VERSE:
Jesus answered, "The work of God is this: to believe in the one
he has sent."
-- John 6:29

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THOUGHT:
"What do you do for a living?" It is one of the most commonly
asked questions in many cultures. We define each other in large
measure by the work we do. God, however, defines us by his grace.
So the work God has for us, the way he wants us to "make our
living," so to speak, is by fully trusting in Jesus. This is the
orientation point for each of our lives!

PRAYER:
Lord God Almighty, Ruler of Heaven and earth, I believe, but
help my unbelief. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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Today's KJV Verse : John 6:29

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VERSE:
Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that
ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
-- John 6:29

http://www.SearchGodsWord.org/desk/?query=John+6:29&translation=kjv

THOUGHT:
"What do you do for a living?" It is one of the most commonly
asked questions in many cultures. We define each other in large
measure by the work we do. God, however, defines us by his grace.
So the work God has for us, the way he wants us to "make our
living," so to speak, is by fully trusting in Jesus. This is the
orientation point for each of our lives!

PRAYER:
Lord God Almighty, Ruler of Heaven and earth, I believe, but
help my unbelief. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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