Bible League: Living His Word And I pray that you and all God's holy people will have the power to understand the greatness of Christ's love—how wide, how long, how high, and how deep that love is. Christ's love is greater than anyone can ever know, but I pray that you will be able to know that love. Then you can be filled with everything God has for you.— Ephesians 3:18-19 ERV These verses serve as a reminder of God's desire to strengthen us internally through the work of His Holy Spirit. He yearns for His love to enter our inner being so we can fully feel His presence. The love of Christ is a tangible, enduring foundation upon which we can base our lives, not only a fleeting sensation or sentiment. We are given the strength to fulfill the reason we were made by being firmly anchored in God's love. We are His creation, carefully designed to carry out the amazing deeds He has already planned for us. A divine power starts to operate in and through us when we give ourselves to this love, empowering us to achieve the extraordinary. God's love is greater than anything we could ever imagine. According to Paul, it is deep, high, long, and vast beyond human comprehension. It is an unending love with no bounds, limitations, or ends. It encompasses every aspect of our existence, welcoming us in our happiness and sadness, successes and setbacks, and even our most profound imperfections. This love lifts us above our fears and limits by giving us a sense of community and belonging. It takes more than just human intellect to fully understand such an unfathomable love. We can recognize the presence of His love in our lives as we become closer to Him and actively seek to know Him through prayer, reading the Bible, and worship. We are filled, not partially, but to the fullest extent possible by this personal relationship with God. Think for a bit about Christ's boundless love. Allow these words to create a desire in your heart to be anchored in His love, so you can feel God's power within you. Allow His love to guide your thoughts, mold your deeds, and overflow from you, impacting everyone around you. May His love transform you, may His Spirit strengthen you, and may you be set apart to accomplish all the wonderful things He has planned for you. By Romi Barcena, Bible League International staff, the Philippines Bible in a Year Old Testament Reading1 Samuel 27, 28, 29 1 Samuel 27 -- David Flees to the Philistines NIV NLT ESV NAS GWT KJV ASV ERV DRB 1 Samuel 28 -- Saul and the Witch of Endor NIV NLT ESV NAS GWT KJV ASV ERV DRB 1 Samuel 29 -- Achish Sends David Away NIV NLT ESV NAS GWT KJV ASV ERV DRB New Testament Reading Luke 17:1-19 Luke 17 -- Forgiveness and Faith; Cleansing of the Ten Lepers; Second Coming Foretold NIV NLT ESV NAS GWT KJV ASV ERV DRB Reading Plan Courtesy of Christian Classics Etherial Library. Tyndale Life Application Daily Devotion The LORD detests double standards;he is not pleased by dishonest scales. Insight “Dishonest scales” refers to the loaded scales a merchant might use in order to cheat the customers. Dishonesty is a difficult sin to avoid. It is easy to cheat if we think no one else is looking. But dishonesty affects the very core of a person. It makes him untrustworthy and untrusting. It eventually makes him unable to know himself or relate to others. Challenge Don't take dishonesty lightly. Even the smallest portion of dishonesty contains enough of the poison of deceit to kill your spiritual life. If there is any dishonesty in your life, tell God about it now. Morning and Evening by Spurgeon Matthew 27:51 Behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.No mean miracle was wrought in the rending of so strong and thick a veil; but it was not intended merely as a display of power--many lessons were herein taught us. The old law of ordinances was put away, and like a worn-out vesture, rent and laid aside. When Jesus died, the sacrifices were all finished, because all fulfilled in him, and therefore the place of their presentation was marked with an evident token of decay. That rent also revealed all the hidden things of the old dispensation: the mercy-seat could now be seen, and the glory of God gleamed forth above it. By the death of our Lord Jesus we have a clear revelation of God, for he was "not as Moses, who put a veil over his face." Life and immortality are now brought to light, and things which have been hidden since the foundation of the world are manifest in him. The annual ceremony of atonement was thus abolished. The atoning blood which was once every year sprinkled within the veil, was now offered once for all by the great High Priest, and therefore the place of the symbolical rite was broken up. No blood of bullocks or of lambs is needed now, for Jesus has entered within the veil with his own blood. Hence access to God is now permitted, and is the privilege of every believer in Christ Jesus. There is no small space laid open through which we may peer at the mercy-seat, but the rent reaches from the top to the bottom. We may come with boldness to the throne of the heavenly grace. Shall we err if we say that the opening of the Holy of Holies in this marvellous manner by our Lord's expiring cry was the type of the opening of the gates of paradise to all the saints by virtue of the Passion? Our bleeding Lord hath the key of heaven; he openeth and no man shutteth; let us enter in with him into the heavenly places, and sit with him there till our common enemies shall be made his footstool. Daily Light on the Daily Path John 10:7 So Jesus said to them again, "Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.Matthew 27:51 And behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth shook and the rocks were split. 1 Peter 3:18 For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit; Hebrews 9:8 The Holy Spirit is signifying this, that the way into the holy place has not yet been disclosed while the outer tabernacle is still standing, John 10:9 "I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. John 14:6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me. Ephesians 2:15,19 by abolishing in His flesh the enmity, which is the Law of commandments contained in ordinances, so that in Himself He might make the two into one new man, thus establishing peace, • So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God's household, Hebrews 10:19,20 Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus, • by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh, Romans 5:1,2 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, • through whom also we have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in which we stand; and we exult in hope of the glory of God. New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved. 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