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Daily readings to help you see Jesus' light in your life
by Selwyn Hughes
"Nothing!"
"... He appeared in a body, was vindicated by the Spirit ..."(v.
16)
-- For reading & meditation: 1 Timothy 3:1-16
Max Muller, a writer on religious issues, once made this arresting
statement: "You do not know the worth of your Christian faith until
you have compared it to others." The first article of belief we look
at is the fact that God has appeared in this world in the Person of
His eternal Son. Our faith is not the word of a prophet but, as we
saw yesterday, the Word of the Son Himself. No other world faith even
attempts to represent its great teacher as God incarnate. Yet we
claim for Christ just that. As God, He comes to us from the highest,
and He comes all the way. I remember hearing a missionary to India
say that he was forced to rethink his faith in the light of other
faiths and other ways of life. "All the old shibboleths and modes of
expression and accepted outlooks on life are challenged," he said,
"and one begins to see where the relevant lies." He started
discussions with Hindu, Buddhist, and Muslim leaders, as well as
representatives of India's many other religions. The gatherings were
called "Round Table" discussions to suggest that everyone could
present what they considered to be the distinctives of their faith.
One could see scintillations of truth, the missionary recalled, as
people spoke from experience or from their sacred books. But whenever
a Christian spoke and unfolded the truth of the Incarnation, the
meeting would lapse into silence. Sometimes the silence would last
for many minutes, only to be broken with the remark: "We have nothing
in our faith that compares to that. Nothing!"
PRAYER:
Dear God and Father, if You hadn't come down to us, how could we have
ever come up to You? What humiliation this must have meant for You.
Yet what love. Our hearts sing with gratitude. Blessed be Your Name
forever. Amen.
FURTHER STUDY:
Acts 1:1-5; 1 Cor. 15:1-8; Acts 9:1-6
1. What was Paul's testimony?
2. How did he substantiate it?
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