Daily Dig for April 7
Emil Bruner| Our Lord Christ
speaks: “I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in me,
though he die, yet shall he live.” Thus he says: You have no idea who I am and
what I mean for you, have done and will do for you, if you do not look beyond
this life to eternity.… If you want to understand me, you must go beyond the
temporal to the eternal, for I am he who brings the kingdom of God to you.… To
those who are satisfied with the world and the things of the world I will have
nothing – nothing at all – to say except this: that they must go to their own
ruin. But to those who have noticed that this earthly life in itself has no
meaning but can receive its meaning only from beyond, to them I say: I guarantee
you this goal; yes, even more: I am this goal. I am the resurrection and the
life. Source: I Believe in the Living God |
Daily Prayer for April 7
Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt| 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. John 14:16–17, NIV Lord our God and our Father, we thank you for giving us the Holy Spirit, who binds us to you. Give us continually afresh something of this Spirit so that we can go forward with light shining on the paths we must follow on earth. Grant us your Spirit, grant that light may break into our whole life and we can rejoice because we experience so much of what you are doing. For through the power of your Spirit you can help us toward your future and all that is to come, that we may live not only in time but in eternity. Amen. |
