Good morning. Hope
everything is going well. Remember from yesterday that from the Lord you will
receive the reward of the inheritance: however he who does wrong will receive
the consequences of the wrong which he has done, and that without partiality.
So it works both ways. Something that we fail to do too often – devote
yourselves to prayer, keeping alert in it with an attitude of Thanksgiving.
Many times we only pray when we need something or we are in trouble. Few people
devote themselves to prayer. Too often we just run off a string of requests,
and don't even bother listening to God's response. Also He may have something
He wants us to pray for, but we're so busy making requests for ourselves that
we miss what He asks us to pray for. Our attitude as we pray should be –
Thanksgiving. Conduct yourselves with wisdom toward outsiders, making the most
of the opportunity. Remember that we are to be gentle as doves, but wise as
serpents. We don't bow to their pressure, but we also don't try to push our
beliefs on them. We are to: let your speech always be with grace, seasoned, as
it were, with salt, so that you may know how you should respond to each person.
We don't fire back at each person – that would be seasoning our speech with
pepper sauce. On the other hand our speech is not to be like grits with nothing
on them (talk about tasteless). The Holy Spirit will give us what we are to
say, if we keep our "ears" open to Him. And that is the end of the
book of Colossians. Father thank You that the reader devotes himself/herself to
prayer; he/she conducts himself/herself with wisdom towards outsiders; and his/her
speech is always seasoned with grace.
So the other disciple who had first come to the tomb then also entered, and he saw and believed
Good morning. We left John at the entrance of the tomb, stooping and looking in. “Shy” Peter then arrives following John, and enters the tomb; and he saw the linen wrappings lying there. So the other disciple, John, who had first come to the tomb then also entered, and he saw and believed. It does not say whether or not Peter believed. For as yet they did not understand the scripture, that He must rise again from the dead. So the disciples went away again to their own homes. I’m not exactly sure what it means by their own homes. They were originally from Galilee and would not have had homes in Jerusalem. Perhaps it means the homes where they were staying while in Jerusalem. Apparently, they were not staying in the upper room, or it would have said so. But Mary was standing outside the tomb weeping; and so, as she wept, she stooped (just like John) and looked into the tomb. She saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had been l...
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