FOOD FOR THE SOUL: MARCH 06, 2014 Todays Devotional (FROM UPPER ROOM): The Whole Picture Testimony of Beverly Varnado (Georgia, USA) One Ash Wednesday, I attended a graveside funeral service for a 16-year-old boy, the son of family friends. He had died in an automobile accident days before. As the mourners gathered by the freshly turned earth, grief washed over us. “Why?” seemed to be the question on everyone’s lips. “Why did this boy, bright with promise who loved God passionately, die so young?” No one knows why tragedies occur. But remembering the whole picture helps me. As Christians, we know that our story does not end on Ash Wednesday. Nor does it end on Good Friday. Early on Sunday, the stone rolled away; Jesus emerged alive from a dark tomb and eternally shattered the grip of death. On resurrection morning, Jesus gave us the ability to look death straight in the eyes, and say, “It isn’t over.” To those who put their trust in the resurrected One, Jesus gives the assurance of eternal life. Jesus’ words, “The one who believes in me will live, even though they die” (John 11:25), bring immeasurable comfort and hope to any who would believe — especially those dealing with the loss of a loved one. Thought for the Day: Every day we can have victory in Christ Jesus. Prayer: Dear Lord Jesus, thank you for bearing the cross for us. Thank you for rising from the dead and conquering death forever. Amen. Prayer Focus: Parents grieving the loss of a child (Visit devotional.Upperroom.Org/blog for more content.) “Death has been swallowed up in victory.” “Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?”- 1 Corinthians 15:54-55 (NIV) --------------------------------- SCRIPTURAL REFERENCE: 1 Corinthians 15:51-58 15:51 Listen, I will tell you a mystery! We will not all die, but we will all be changed, 15:52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 15:53 For this perishable body must put on imperishability, and this mortal body must put on immortality. 15:54 When this perishable body puts on imperishability, and this mortal body puts on immortality, then the saying that is written will be fulfilled:Death has been swallowed up in victory. 15:55 Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting? 15:56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 15:57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 15:58 Therefore, my beloved, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the work of the Lord, because you know that in the Lord your labor is not in vain. -------- SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT ----------- Matthew 16:26, “What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?—Be a part in spreading the gospel of God. Share this devotional message to your Facebook Friends. Matthew 28:18-20, Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.
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