GOD’S WORD FOR JANUARY 25

We are reading from a daily devotional  called “Running To Win” written by Erwin Lutzer  and the late, great D.L. Moody.   Erwin Lutzer is a light in our day as D.L. Moody was in his.

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NO ONE LIKE HIM

John 1:11-12

“He came to His own and His  own did not receive Him.  But to all who did receive Him, who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God.”

D.L. MOODY

Him—mark you – not a dogma, not a creed, not a myth, but a PERSON!!!

ERWIN LUTZER

Read Moody’s sermons and prayers and you will soon discover there is no fluff, no unnecessary words, just the truth.  This devotional has but a single sentence.   Blessed is the preacher who makes little of himself and much about Jesus.

Moody knew, and we all agree, that only the Jesus of the New Testament is able to save us from our sins.  He alone has the qualifications to cleanse our hearts, give us the gift of righteousness, and welcome us into our eternal home.

Jesus is qualified because of His divinity.  “In the beginning was the Word (John 1:1).  Jesus is the intelligibility, the message, and the communication of God.  The Word existed from all eternity.  The Word (Jesus Christ) was and is God.

Jesus is also qualified because of His humanity.  “The Word became flesh” (John 1:14).  This truth shatters the philosophical and religious world.  Jesus was a sinless human being, to be sure, but He became one with us.  He bridged the gap between God and man.  What a beautiful, saving mystery!

What a tragedy to know Isaac Newton, but not as a scientist;  to know William Shakespeare, but not as a poet or playwright; and to know Jesus, but not as your Savior.  Have you received Him as your  personal Lord and Savior?  He is the ONLY way to heaven.

PRAYER

Father, please help me to see the uniqueness, the credentials, and the beauty of Jesus.  There is no one else like Him.  I don’t just admire Him, I receive Him by faith.  I worship and adore Him, and trust that He died and was raised because of MY sins, for which I repent as I go forward and live with and for Him alone.

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John 8:12

Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.”

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John 1:4-5

In Him was life, and the life was the light of men, and the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

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John 3:20-21

For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.

But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.”

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Matthew 12:50

“For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.”

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