Chapter 4 ⁽⁵⁴⁾

Passage Read: Ephesians 3-4 Meditation Verses: 4:13-15 Jesus Christ Himself is the goal and the likeness into which we all should be growing. And there is only one Jesus, so there cannot be multiple likenesses to which men attain. Yet Paul makes clear here that…

Passage Read: Galatians 3-4 Meditation Verses: 4:22-24 God promised to give Abraham an heir through Sarah, but He delayed in fulfilling it, knowing that Sarah would become discouraged and suggest using Hagar, and Abraham would agree. This would become an illustration for our spiritual state…

Passage Read: 2 Corinthians 4-5 Meditation Verse: 4:2 Anything that brings shame, instead of hiding it, covering it, continuing in it but claiming freedom, deceiving people about it, Paul renounced it. If he could not practice it publicly because it was shameful, he did away…

Passage Read: John 3-4 Meditation Verses: 4:35-38 As the disciples once said, "Lord, increase our faith!" Jesus says that the fields are white unto harvest, but I can't see it. Open my eyes, Lord, let me see it. It seems the harvest is long past…

Passage Read: Luke 3-4 Meditation Verses: 4:43-44 Luke makes it clear that Jesus at least began His ministry by preaching in the local synagogues. Of course the other Gospels mention Jesus doing things in a few synagogues, but this statement by Luke suggests it wasn't…