Bible in a Year:
I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me . . . and I lay down my life for the sheep.
There was One who laid down His life freely two thousand years ago so you and I can live not only in this life but for all eternity. Jesus didn’t just wake up one day and decide He would pay the penalty of death for humanity’s sin. This was His life’s mission. At one point when He was talking with the Jewish religious leaders He repeatedly acknowledged, “I lay down my life” (John 10:11, 15, 17, 18). He didn’t just say these words but lived them by actually dying a horrific death on the cross. He came so that the Pharisees, John Harper, and we “may have life, and have it to the full” (v. 10).
Reflect & Pray
How do you reveal that you truly love those around you? How can you show Jesus’ love to someone through your actions today?
Jesus, there aren’t words grand enough to thank You for demonstrating the greatest act of love there is. Thank You for giving Your life away so I might live. Help me to show Your love to others no matter how much it costs me.
LOL! Slow day?
Hope your work day was better than mine. Grueling! But checks are printed, taxes are sent, and folks will get paid on Friday.
Good evening, Mayor, and thank you for today’s sustenance for body and soul.
How are you and your plasma cutter getting along? Have you been able to practice?