March 2015 – Page 12 – Smriti "Simmi" D. Isaac

“How? you ask. In Christ. God put the wrong on him who never did anything wrong, so we could be put right with God.”

2 Corinthians 5:21 MSG – A verse of the day from the Bible presented in Eugene Peterson’s contemporary version called The Message. Accompanied by a personal reflection below.

How utterly wondrous is this concept, don’t you think? Because if I were to right the wrong myself, I just couldn’t do it — not even in an entire lifetime. But to think that God has made a provision for me to become a beneficiary of a plan that includes my complete pardon and allows an eternal reconciliation with Him, all made possible by the work of Christ who bore my wrong and paid the price of my sin — for all this to be made freely available for me so that I “could be put right with God” — what a wondrous concept!

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“The conscience and the concentration both make mere life, Love.”

Love BY ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING

We cannot live, except thus mutually

We alternate, aware or unaware,

The reflex act of life: and when we bear

Our virtue onward most impulsively,

Most full of invocation, and to be

Most instantly compellant, certes, there

We live most life, whoever breathes most air

And counts his dying years by sun and sea.

But when a soul, by choice and conscience, doth

Throw out her full force on another soul,

The conscience and the concentration both

Make mere life, Love. For Life in perfect whole

And aim consummated, is Love in sooth,

As nature’s magnet-heat rounds pole with pole.

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March 6, Matthew 19:26

“Jesus looked hard at them and said, “No chance at all if you think you can pull it off yourself. Every chance in the world if you trust God to do it.”

Matthew 19:26 MSG – A verse of the day from the Bible presented in Eugene Peterson’s contemporary version called The Message. Accompanied by a personal reflection below.

THIS is the verse I ought to remember every single day! There is NO chance I can pull this off all by myself. I’d be a fool to think I could. So, what can I do to ensure that I DO pull it off? Well, Jesus makes it quite clear: trust God to do it! How can such complicated things be so simplistic, you ask? Well, that’s what faith means: when you believe, you place trust, and when you trust, you are rewarded for it. Place your trust in God, won’t you?