Wednesday May 2, 2007

Text for the Day -- John 10:31-38

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The Jews took up stones again to stone him. Jesus replied, "I have
shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these are you
going to stone me?" The Jews answered, "It is not for a good work
that we are going to stone you, but for blasphemy, because you,
though only a human being, are making yourself God." Jesus answered,
"Is it not written in your law, 'I said, you are gods'? If those to
whom the word of God came were called 'gods' - and the scripture
cannot be annulled - can you say that the one whom the Father has
sanctified and sent into the world is blaspheming because I said, 'I
am God's Son'? If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not
believe me. But if I do them, even though you do not believe me,
believe the works, so that you may know and understand that the
Father is in me and I am in the Father."

Devotional
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Jesus appealed to the Jews to believe that he was sent by God and was
God's son. He appeals to Scripture and to the works that he does. He
claims that he could not do the works of the Father if the Father was
not in him and he was not in the Father. Even for ourselves, we
cannot do what God directs us to do by way of ministry unless we are
in God and God is in us.

Prayer
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Strengthen me in my commitment to our relationship, gracious Father.
Amen