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MONDAY, January 3
Hebrews 11:13-22: They confessed that they were strangers and foreigners on the earth.
The following words are from The Pilgrim’s Progress, spoken by Mr. Valiant-for-Truth as he crossed the river into the Celestial City: “Then said he, I am going to my Father’s, and though with great difficulty I am got hither, yet now I do not repent me of all the Trouble I have been at to arrive where I am. My Sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my Pilgrimage, and my Courage and Skill, to him that can get it. My Marks and Scars I carry with me, to be a witness for me, that I have fought His Battles who now will be my Rewarder.”
This is the story of life, and the famous eleventh chapter of Hebrews tells the same story. Even though life makes us feel like strangers and pilgrims on the earth, God is with us and, if we do his will, the end will be with God, too. Life is a pilgrimage, but there are shrines by the side of every road where we may worship him and gain his strength for the next stage of the journey.
We are not strangers, come what may, for we are known to God and he loves us. Therefore “valiant be ’gainst all disaster,” by God’s grace. (1951)
PRAY for the Diocese of Lainya (Sudan)
Ps 68 * 72; Genesis 28:10-22; John 10:7-17
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