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This community is to share the Love of Christ. Discuss scripture and how it relates to the world today. I will be telling you about how scripture has changed my life.

I will share about Christian books I have read or listened to. 

I will be sharing about my life before and after Christ. I will include stories about my pet and other pets I have encountered.
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January 30, 2024
Mark 13:33 / Verse of the Day & Daily Devotion

The Unknown Day and Hour

Imagine you work in someone’s home. One day, the master of the home leaves and entrusts you to steward their property, and you have no idea when they will return. What would you do?

Take a nap? Throw a party? Eat all the food in the pantry? Ignore instructions?

No. A faithful servant would follow their master’s directions and keep the home ready for their return.

Jesus’ parable in Mark 13:32-37 illustrates that the same is true of what our Master, Jesus, has given us—possessions, gifts, talents, and the like. It’s not really ours, after all—He left it in our care temporarily. We don’t know when He will return, "whether in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or at dawn" (Mark 13:35, NIV). But God’s Word tells us what we should do in the meantime. Here are a few tasks our Master has for us while we wait:

  • Stay alert and vigilant. (Mark 13:33)
  • Pray for all the Lord’s people. (Ephesians 6:18)
  • Serve one another with our spiritual gifts. (1 Peter 4:10)
  • Care for the needy. (James 2:14–17)
  • Practice humility. (Philippians 2:3–4)
    Let’s stay on guard for when “someday” becomes “today.”
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Mark 8:35 / Verse of the Day & Daily Devotion

How to Save Your Life

Jesus willingly sacrificed everything for the sake of the world. He took the punishment of our sin and wrongdoing so that we could know God intimately, for all time. And when He rose from the dead, He made it possible for us to have a close relationship with Him. 

Jesus made a way for us to know Him, but we have to choose whether or not we will follow Him.  

“If any of you wants to be my follower, you must give up your own way, take up your cross, and follow me. If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake and for the sake of the Good News, you will save it.” 
Mark 8:34-35 NLT

What does it mean to take up our cross? 

For Jesus, the cross was a literal object upon which He suffered and died. It was a physical weight that also symbolizes the spiritual heaviness He bore. 

The cross also represents the suffering and surrender we all choose to endure for the sake of knowing and obeying Christ.  

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