VerseD: Matthew 6:11
Give us today our daily bread.
Matthew 6:11, CSB
Life is hard. God is good. He provides all of our needs and cares for us, and He invites us to ask and trust Him.
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VerseD: Romans 1:16
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, and also to the Greek.
Romans 1:16, CSB
God should be our source of hope, joy, and peace. There is joy and peace in resting in the hope of the gospel and unabashedly bringing others to know the truth, too.
VerseD: Proverbs 1:7
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and discipline.
Proverbs 1:7, CSB
God should be our source of hope, joy, and peace. We should fear the wrath of God before we are found in Christ, but we should walk in reverence of His majesty, finding peace and joy in the wisdom and correction He offers us through the Holy Spirit.
VerseD: Matthew 18:12
“What do you think? If someone has a hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, won’t he leave the ninety-nine on the hillside and go and search for the stray?”
Matthew 18:12, CSB
God should be our source of hope, joy, and peace. We can have these knowing He seeks us, He saves us, and He protects us.
VerseD: Mark 4:9
Then he said, “Let anyone who has ears to hear listen.”
Mark 4:9, CSB
God should be our source of hope, joy, and peace. Listening to and reading the words of Christ will reveal His will by His Holy Spirit to find the joy and peace that comes from understanding Him better.
VerseD: Matthew 5:14
“You are the light of the world. A city situated on a hill cannot be hidden.”
Matthew 5:14, CSB
God should be our source of hope, joy, and peace. When Christ is our light, we can shine the light of His joy and peace through the hope of the gospel and our loving works.
VerseD: Isaiah 41:13
For I am the Lord your God, who holds your right hand, who says to you, “Do not fear, I will help you.”
Isaiah 41:13, CSB
God calls us to rest, and one of those ways is to rest from anxiety and fear. Trust God, and honor His call by resting in Him.
VerseD: 1 Chronicles 29:11
Yours, Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the splendor and the majesty, for everything in the heavens and on earth belongs to you. Yours, Lord, is the kingdom, and you are exalted as head over all.
1 Chronicles 29:11, CSB
We are called to rest, and we follow the example of our Creator. Do we truly believe He is worthy of all honor and glory? Let us glorify Him by obeying Him and even resting, finding ultimate rest for our souls through Christ.
VerseD: Exodus 20:8
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy
Exodus 20:8, CSB
God calls us to rest, and He gave us the example. We need to remember to honor God by respecting the time we have and resting regularly.
A Quarter-Century Re-Birthday
On this day 25 years ago, at 6:46 PM CST, I bent my knee to Jesus as Lord and Savior. (If you do a search on this site for “birthday”, you will see the various explanations.)
I like to call it my Re-Birthday, as we call faith in Christ being born again. This comes from John 3 and 1 Peter 1. I encourage everyone to remember their own re-birthday (and if you aren’t sure/can’t remember, just claim your birthday.)
I also like to bake some sort of cake and then serve it to others as a way to teach self-sacrifice and becoming a servant to all as our shared salvation is celebrated.
This year, I get to start Christian Worldview and Intro to Philosophy courses (as one of the instructors) with 245 students who were all born after this momentous day in my life. Tomorrow I am with fellow seminarians who also were mostly born after this date! (2 are about my age and from Africa. We actually have about 30 students from Malawi [majority from here], Kenya [Gama is the one who invited me to his home and is about my age], Ghana [the other person about my age], and Sierra Leone.)
It is a little weird to think that I have been a Christian so long, especially having come to Christ as a teenager and now working with teens (and 20-somethings) as a youth pastor and college instructor.
God is so good.
Also, it is my mother-in-law’s birthday, so join me in wishing her a happy and blessed day! If not for her, I would not have my wife!
Also also, it is my friend Fletcher’s birthday. We met in seminary. He’s a TheoBro of the hughest order.
God bless you, and remember that Jesus Christ is the reason we live and move and breathe and have meaning and being!
Be excellent and party on!
a simple man of God
Do we truly love the Lord our God with all our hearts, souls, minds, and strengths? Maybe I can help with the mind part, at least! This is Daniel M. Klem, apparent poet, reluctant yet passionate Disciple (Peter?), and foolish man attempting to understand theology!
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