![]() ![]() Who is God asking you to serve? What selfish desires do you need to lay aside to put someone else’s life before your own? Are you too busy or too distracted to serve others?Īdapted from “What Did Paul Mean When He Said, “I Die Daily”?” John 21 tells us that if all the things Jesus did were all written down, the entire world could not contain the books that would be written! Jesus ministered to thousands upon thousands of people during His time here on earth. Jesus did not come to be served, but to serve others. We are not perfect, but thankfully Jesus was, and because of His sacrifice on the cross, we have been given the precious gift of the Holy Spirit as born-again believers.ģ. We discover what that will is when we read the Bible and study it for ourselves to learn God’s ways. Jesus obediently submitted Himself to the will of the Father.Įach day, we are faced with the temptation to satisfy our flesh and go outside the boundaries of God’s perfect will. Jesus would rise early to pray and seek God for His will for the day.Ģ. Jesus humbly approached the Father through prayer.Įven though Jesus was God in the flesh, He still leaned upon God the Father for everything He said and did while He walked this earth. How do we imitate Christ in our everyday life? Here are three ways Jesus lived a selfless faith on earth.ġ. We may not ever get the honor to literally die for Jesus Christ because of our faith in Him, but by God’s grace, we can imitate His selflessness every day. And it is what he and the rest of the apostles literally gave their lives to preach to the world through their words and actions. That was Paul’s mission in life – to imitate Christ. ![]() And, if the prospect of the coming of the Divine Saviour was a never-failing support to the hopes of ancient believers, what cause have we to be thankful that the Word was made flesh! May we trust in and love Him, and copy his example.“I affirm, brethren, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily” ( 1 Corinthians 15:31)Īs Jesus’ disciples, we are called to follow Him. The prophecy is so solemn, the sign is so marked, as given by God himself after Ahaz rejected the offer, that it must have raised hopes far beyond what the present occasion suggested. ![]() "Before this child," so it may be read "this child which I have now in my arms," (Shear-jashub, the prophet's own son, verse 3,) shall be three or four years older, these enemies' forces shall be forsaken of both their kings. Then follows a sign of the speedy destruction of the princes, now a terror to Judah. And although his birth would be by the power of the Holy Ghost, yet he should not be fed with angels' food. He would grow up like other children, by the use of the diet of those countries but he would, unlike other children, uniformly refuse the evil and choose the good. It shall be brought to pass in a glorious manner and the strongest consolations in time of trouble are derived from Christ, our relation to him, our interest in him, our expectations of him and from him. How great soever your distress and danger, of you the Messiah is to be born, and you cannot be destroyed while that blessing is in you. Nothing is more grievous to God than distrust, but the unbelief of man shall not make the promise of God of no effect the Lord himself shall give a sign. The prophet reproved Ahaz and his court, for the little value they had for Divine revelation. Secret disaffection to God is often disguised with the colour of respect to him and those who are resolved that they will not trust God, yet pretend they will not tempt him. Commentary on Today's Verse Commentary on Isaiah 7:10-16 ![]()
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