Life is an opportunity to understand and carry out the will of the Lord and bear the fruit of light. We were created in God’s image and redeemed in Christ to reflect His holy character.
God's eternal purpose is an overflow of His grace. His divine purpose of election is accomplished in the saving message of Jesus Christ. We call it the Gospel.
Faith is active and deliberate. Faith is also worship. Thomas declares this when he saw the risen Lord. He did not merely acknowledge the fact of Jesus’ resurrection but the theology it signified, but more than that, it was doxological.
The risen Lord has for His people unfathomable riches. Despite their failures and unworthiness, Jesus gave His disciples this gift: the noble assignment to proclaim the gospel of divine forgiveness of sins
Jesus rose victoriously from the dead, having inaugurated the new covenant. This risen and victorious Savior then gave gifts to men, even “the unfathomable riches of Christ.” Jesus speaks of these magnificent gifts in His post-resurrection appearances.
The person who is not satisfied with Christ will inevitably seek satisfaction somewhere else, but nothing else will satisfy. Nothing on earth was meant to satisfy except Christ.
Only a renewed mind can live a life in the Lord; but an untransformed life proves the mind is not yet renewed. Let our minds be continually filled with the living spring of truth from our Lord.
