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"The Wedding Day" by Tara Beth Leach
Titus 2:1 But you, explain what kind of behavior goes along with sound teaching. 2 Tell the older men to be serious, sensible, self-controlled and sound in their trust, love and perseverance.
3 Likewise, tell the older women to behave the way people leading a holy life should. They shouldn’t be slanderers or slaves to excessive drinking. They should teach what is good, 4 thus training the younger women to love their husbands and children, 5 to be self-controlled and pure, to take good care of their homes and submit to their husbands. In this way, God’s message will not be brought into disgrace.
6 Similarly, urge the young men to be self-controlled, 7 and in everything set them an example yourself by doing what is good. When you are teaching, have integrity and be serious; 8 let everything you say be so wholesome that an opponent will be put to shame because he will have nothing bad to say about us.
9 Tell slaves to submit to their masters in everything, to give satisfaction without talking back 10 or pilfering. On the contrary, they should demonstrate complete faithfulness always, so that in every way they will make the teaching about God our Deliverer more attractive.
11 For God’s grace, which brings deliverance, has appeared to all people. 12 It teaches us to renounce godlessness and worldly pleasures, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives now, in this age; 13 while continuing to expect the blessed fulfillment of our certain hope, which is the appearing of the Sh’khinah of our great God and the appearing of our Deliverer, Yeshua the Messiah. 14 He gave himself up on our behalf in order to free us from all violation of Torah and purify for himself a people who would be his own, eager to do good.
15 These are the things you should say. Encourage and rebuke with full authority; don’t let anyone look down on you.
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It was a wedding day straight out of a bridal magazine. The bride was perfectly adorned with a dress fit for a princess. Friends and family surrounded the couple celebrating the joyous occasion. When the bride declared before her friends, family, and husband that she chose the man who stood before her to be her husband–forever–she made an eternal commitment. It was a "yes" so profound, so strong, and so radical, that it was also a "no" to any man would try to interfere with that commitment.
We, the church, are the bride of Christ. We have been perfectly adorned with love, grace, and forgiveness, because of the faithfulness of King Jesus. However, even as the bride of Christ, we will be bombarded daily with worldly temptations to pull us away from our radical commitment to Christ. Still, take heart, we don’t have to face these temptations alone. As the bride of Christ, we have been given the empowering presence of the Spirit to enable us to overcome such worldly temptations, and we have also been given our fellow Christians to encourage and edify us on this great journey. Today, choose to cling to the Spirit and encourage another brother or sister in Christ.-------
Hymn for Today: "I Would Be True" by Howard A. Walter
1. I would be true, for there are those who trust me;
I would be pure, for there are those who care;
I would be strong, for there is much to suffer;
I would be brave, for there is much to dare;
I would be brave, for there is much to dare.
2. I would be friend of all--the foe, the friendless;
I would be giving, and forget the gift;
I would be humble, for I know my weakness;
I would look up, and laugh, and love, and lift;
I would look up, and laugh, and love, and lift.
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Thought for Today: Revelation 19:7 “Let us rejoice and be glad!Let us give him the glory!
For the time has come for the
wedding of the Lamb,
and his Bride has prepared herself —
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Please Pray: For the development of Christian leaders in Portugal.
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