Your daily goal:

Philippians 3:14  “I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.”   

(Monday-Friday, from my morning quiet time, I will write a short thought for that day which I pray God will use to motivate you to ‘GO’ for that day.  Your objective is simple…to GO…to GO OUT and share the love of Christ with someone in that day….to GO and bear fruit …to be light to the world.)

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Has, Have, and Had  (remember all the past, present, future..and simple and perfect jargon related to proper use of grammar?… ugghh!)

English Grammar 101  (dialogue from a popular English Grammar online ‘help’ site.. Diana the grammar expert responding to Nick…)

I always have problems thinking about the use of has, have, had in a sentence. Could you please help me with this? Thanks – Nick

Hi Nick. The difference is in terms of tense and subject.

First, you have to make sure that you understand the tense that you are using. For example; If you use has alone it is referring to the “third person” and saying that that person possesses something.
(She has a beautiful car.)

When we use have we are either talking about ourselves or the general idea of possessing something
(I have a great husband. It would be nice to have a bigger house).

Had on the other hand is referring to something that was possessed in the past…but not now.
(I had a good job…but now I don’t).

Generally speaking the only difference is the time frame or tense that you need to use and also who is being referred to.

Now…move to:   Eternal Theological Truth 101

1 John 5:11-12   The Apostle John wrote “And this is the testimony:  God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.  He who hasthe Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.”

say it with me… he who HAS the SON HAS life…..he who HAS the Son HAS life.  Got it?   YOU/WE the third person…we possess somebody…not some ‘thing’.   We possess the Son of God…and more wonderfully…He HAS/possesses us.

So..in this fine day..another day….’Go’ out and tell those who do not possess the Son and thus do not have eternal life…go tell them how they can possess the Son 😊  Amen

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Faith, Hope, and Love 

In reading the caption above, faith, hope, and love…it is natural to correlate these three words to a passage from the letter the apostle Paul wrote to the ‘church/believers’ in the city of Corinth.  1 Corinthians, chapter 13…often referred to as the ‘love’ chapter and in contemporary times is often used in weddings as poetic picture of what the couple-to-be hopes that their love type will be.  As my son and his friends would say.. “it is all good.” 😊

In the context of the letter…the theme of the letter to the church at Corinth…Paul is addressing serious issues in moral issues, and divisions and conflict among believers….and he seeks to call them to a higher standard of Christ like living and to the high standard of which the Body of Christ must be in unity ‘so that’ the ‘body’ is healthy and functions as it was intended to function ‘so that’ the world can see Christ in his people…in the life of the church.   So Paul reiterates to them that they are all a part of the body of Christ and they must understand that each has a different part and place and function and they must accept each other and learn to work in harmony so that they do not suffer and so that they can honor each other and thus rejoice.   And he says the way…the spirit in which to do this…the power in which to do this…comes through faith, hope, and love and the greatest of these is love.

Paul later writes another letter to the church/believers who live in Thessalonica.  The circumstances, context, and theme are different.  They are a church that is thriving while enduring persecution and his letter is to encourage them and to also remind them of the coming of the Lord.   In chapter 1 of 1st Thessalonians, Paul writes “We always thank God for all of you, mentioning you in our prayers.  We continually remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.”

He says ‘you work produced by faith…your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope… in our Lord Jesus Christ.’

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Your daily goal:

Philippians 3:14  “I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.”   

(Monday-Friday, from my morning quiet time, I will write a short thought for that day which I pray God will use to motivate you to ‘GO’ for that day.  Your objective is simple…to GO…to GO OUT and share the love of Christ with someone in that day….to GO and bear fruit …to be light to the world.)

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Know the King…See Him Seated on High as He Reigns….See What We have ‘in’ Him…

Ephesians 1:18 NIV   Paul wrote “I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches, of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and his incomparably great power for who believe. 

(From Charles Ellicott’s Commentary):  The heart is similarly spoken of in relation to spiritual perception in Romans 1:21; 1Corinthians 2:9; 1Corinthians 4:5; it signifies the inner man in his entirety; and the phrase here used seems to convey the all-important truth, that for the knowledge of God all the faculties of understanding, conscience, and affection must be called into energy by the gift of the light of God.

Paul goes on to say in verses 19-22… “That power is like the working of his might strength, which he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every title that can be given, not only in the present age but also in the one to come.   And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way.”

We belong to an unshakeable kingdom that is eternal.  We serve a King who is unchanging.  We are His and He is ours.   All of this is the work of God the Father who calls us to the cross and reconciles us to Himself through the shed blood of His Son.  The ‘work’ of God is a gift to us…given to us to demonstrate His great love for us.  See it…let ‘seeing’ it impact your ‘heart’…which is your understanding, conscience, and the seat of your affections.   Be energized by ‘seeing’ that you are His and He is yours.   Go out and share this good news with someone today.   Amen

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The Reign of the King… 

His Kingdom is a ‘forever’ Kingdom….

We are secure ‘in’ Him..

Luke 1:32-33 NIV  The angel Gabriel said to Mary… “He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High.  The Lord God will give Him the throne of his father David, and He will reign over the house of Jacob forever; His kingdom will never end.”   (also see Isaiah 9).

John 14:15-18 NIV   Jesus says that He will send us the Holy Spirit to be with us and ‘in’ us….”If you love Me, you will obey what I command.  And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Counselor to be with you forever – the Spirit of truth.  The world cannot accept Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him.  But you know Him, for He lives with you and will be ‘in’ you.”

1 John 4:13 NIV  John tells us “We know that we live in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.”

Father…I thank you that we can ‘know’ YOU now.  I thank you that we can experience Your presence each moment and day of our life, ‘now’.   We can do this because You have given us Your Spirit to live inside us ‘so that’ Your Spirit can witness to our spirit that we are Yours and we belong to the eternal kingdom of Your Son, King Jesus.   Help us to cherish this reality…there is nothing more precious for us to ‘know’ than is for us to ‘know’ we are ‘in’ Christ.  Amen

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The Reign of the King…  it is ‘within’ you. 

Luke 17:20,21 NIV    Once, having been asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied.  “The Kingdom of God does not come with our careful observation, nor will people say, ‘Here it is,’ or ‘There it is,” because the kingdom of God is within you.”

John 3:1-7 NIV Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a member of the Jewish ruling council.  He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know you are a teacher who has come from God.  For no one could perform the miraculous signs you are doing if God were not with him.” In reply Jesus declared, “I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.”      How can a man be born when he is old  Nicodemus asked.  “Surely he cannot enter a second time into his mother’s womb to be born!”  Jesus answered, “I tell you the truth no once can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit.  Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit.  You should not be surprised at my saying, ‘you must be born again.’

Colossians 1:24-27 NIV    Paul writes “I rejoice in what was suffered for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions, for the sake of his body, which is the church.  I have become its servant by the commission God gave me to present to you the word of God in its fullness — the mystery that has been kept hidden for ages and generations, but is now disclosed to the saints.  To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles, the glorious riches of the mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.”

When we come to the cross of Christ and ‘repent’….God responds and forgives and accepts us into His eternal family.   The Spirit of God/Jesus, the Holy Spirit, then comes to live inside our spirit to give us ‘new’ birth…’so that’ we can become partakers of His eternal kingdom and become empowered to be ambassadors for the King.  New birth through the power of the Spirit is what let’s us ‘see’ and ‘know’ that we are His..that we are safe in Him…sharing with Him ‘now’ in His eternal Kingdom..which is now…and which is coming…and which will always be.   Christ in you!   Christ in You.  ‘See it?’

Father..I thank you that you chose us to be partakers of your divine nature (2 Peter 1:4)…that we can have Christ live inside us ‘so that’ we can be formed into His image ‘so that’ we can have the ability to please you with our lives.   Help us to cherish the gift of Christ in us.  Empower us to ‘go’ and tell others.  Amen

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My good friend and pastor David Niednagel shared this yesterday….

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Staying Focused on the Goal…

As ambassadors of the King..what is our daily goal?  The answer…be ‘doers’.

James 1:22,25 NIV…James wrote “Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says…(and in verse 25..he continues the main point)…not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it…he will be blessed in what he does.”

Our production (output) in eternal kingdom work increases as we spend time in the ‘word’ and we abide in Jesus.  As we spend time in the word and with Jesus in prayer and meditation… the ‘more’ we ‘hear’ at the deep level wherein such ‘hearing’ influences our behavior and activity.   ‘Hearing’..motivates us to ‘do’.  We ‘do’ what the word and Jesus tell us to ‘do’.  We don’t just ‘do’.   We ‘hear’ and ‘do’.

The ‘more’ we practice ‘doing’…the ‘more’ we become obedient.   The more we become ‘obedient’…the more we will become like our King.  (I am not suggesting we can become God…I know you know that…one of the primary teachings of the New Testament is that Jesus Christ comes to live ‘inside’ us ‘so that’ He can change us from the inside out to reflect the ‘who’ of ‘who’ He is…’so that’ we can reflect and manifest His image…the goal being for the world to see Jesus ‘in’ us.)

So the simple ‘light’ today is to remember to stay focused on the goal…discipline yourself to spend time in the word and time with Jesus … ‘so that’…you will be more of a ‘doer’…’so that’ you will become more obedient…more consistently obedient…. ‘so that’ you will reflect the image of our King.

Hearer and Doer     Hearer and Doer    Hearer and Doer

Got it?   Now Do it!  😊   Amen