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Life and death are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.
Proverbs 18:21, HCSB
God chose to create us and call us friends through Christ, so may we choose to treat others as friends and show Christ’s love in how we speak to others.
Therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, I urge you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God; this is your spiritual worship.
Romans 12:1, HCSB
God chose to create us, then chose to call us friends through the sacrificial death of Christ. Now, He calls us to choose to live a similar life of sacrifice that more friends and brothers and sisters in Christ may be brought together in faith.
He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will no longer exist; grief, crying, and pain will exist no longer, because the previous things have passed away.
Revelation 21:4, HCSB
God has chosen us through Christ, redeeming us and making good us His friends through His blood. And by His death and resurrection, we have the hope of eternal life free from suffering and sadness.
Our Lord and God, You are worthy to receive glory and honor and power, because You have created all things, and because of Your will they exist and were created.
Revelation 4:11, HCSB
We must remember that God chose to create us, to save us, and to call us friends. He is worthy of all praise, honor and glory.
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Proverbs 17:17, ESV
Friends choose each other, while siblings can seem like a chore but will usually be there for you.
Our Lord came and called us friends as He made us brothers in His blood, saving us from our adversary and punishment for our sins.
For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
Galatians 5:13, ESV
God is free to do whatever He will, yet He chose to become one of us to save us with His love and grace.
We are set free from sin in Christ, so let us follow our Lord to choose to help others.
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
1 Corinthians 10:31, ESV
Even our simple choices in life should be dedicated to God, with concern for those around us but always to glorify God.
A voice says, “Cry!” And I said, “What shall I cry?” All flesh is grass, and all its beauty is like the flower of the field. The grass withers, the flower fades when the breath of the Lord blows on it; surely the people are grass. The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.
Isaiah 40:6-8, ESV
At Advent, we look back at why Jesus had to come, that He came, and then that He will come again.
Our sins have stacked up to heaven, deeper and more vile than we could know.
Sin is the act of willfully separating from God, putting something between God and ourselves, weakening ourselves from the inside out as we cut ourselves off from the source of life.
And God will let us have what we want. (Romans 1:20-32)
Therefore, we internally die continually, and the only hope is a long life to stave off the eternal death and suffering.
All because we choose our sin over God and His Word.
We therefore prepare ourselves by investigating His eternal Word through reading the Scriptures and trusting in the Son.
We may still suffer in this world, but we have the hope of eternal life in New bodies with our Lord forever.
May we seek the Lord who gives us life, preparing ourselves by seeking His Word.
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.
James 1:5 ESV
God desires that we each turn to Him for true wisdom, which is His righteousness in Christ.
Turn to Him today, and receive God’s wisdom.
a simple man of God 