FOOD FOR THE SOUL: NOV. 20, 2013 Todays Devotional(FROMM UPPER ROOM): Love Letter from God Testimony of Gerald McCann (Gauteng, South Africa) A dear friend of mine carries a deep and painful love in her heart. Twenty-five years ago, her eldest son turned his back on her and left home. He has never tried to contact her again, despite repeated attempts on her part to get in touch with him. This mother’s love for her lost son remains inexpressibly deep and true. Each day, she writes in a diary a brief letter to her son, telling him of the daily events in her life. She has already filled three books with these love letters from a mother’s aching heart. Perhaps he will one day return, even after she has gone; and he will read her lifetime of love letters to him. This mother’s story reminds me of God’s love for his lost children everywhere and God’s personal love for each of us. The Bible contains God’s eternal love letters to us, written a long time ago. When we were lost, we had no desire to read them. But when we return home, they should become the most precious possessions in our lives, to be read and treasured each day. Thought for the Day: The Bible is God’s love letter to each of us. Prayer: Loving Father, thank you for the Bible that contains the whole history of your love for us. Amen. Prayer Focus: Families who are estranged. From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.- 2 Timothy 3:15 (NIV) -------------------------------- SCRIPTURAL REFERENCE: 2 Timothy 3:10-17 3:10 Now you have observed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness, 3:11 my persecutions, and suffering the things that happened to me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them. 3:12 Indeed, all who want to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. 3:13 But wicked people and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and being deceived. 3:14 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it, 3:15 and how from childhood you have known the sacred writings that are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 3:16 All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 3:17 so that everyone who belongs to God may be proficient, equipped for every good work. -------- 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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