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MONDAY, August 2
Read our Editor's note from the August/September/October 2010 print issue of Forward Day by Day here.
John 1:1-18. No one has ever seen God.
No one has seen or can see all of God at any one time. We do see a part of God made manifest each day. It is almost as if each night we die and then God touches us and restores us to life each morning. God is nearer than hands and feet. Indeed God is both hands and feet— and brain and eyes and beating heart. That is why it is possible to feel God’s presence and to hear and see God’s moments of illuminating light and directing love.
That is why we need to stay so close to Jesus. Jesus allowed God’s will to control his life. God’s kingdom began in Jesus. He was the first pioneer of the kingdom, for the kingdom begins when a person is obedient to God. More than once he said that the kingdom was here among us, that it was beginning to germinate within us. The kingdom is among us today. Whenever and wherever men and women turn to God, the kingdom comes and new cells of life begin to grow. (1977)
Dear God, we desire to know what to do this day under the remembrance of yesterday’s trials and the knowledge of today’s temptations. We surrender our worried way to you and ask for faith enough to know and strength enough to do your will.
PRAY for the Armed Forces and Micronesia (USA)
Ps 80 * 77, [79]; Judges 6:25-40; Acts 2:37-47
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