MAY 22, 2025, THURSDAY
Entry: 12:26pm, FAIRVIEW QC
VERSE OF THE DAY:
MATTHEW 25:31-32
When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
REFLECTING HIS LOVE
In Matthew 25:31-32, we encounter a powerful picture of Jesus' return. He will come in glory, with all the angels, seated on His throne, and He will separate people as a shepherd separates sheep from goats. This scene is not just about a future event- it calls us to examine our lives today.
The shepherd imagery is significant. In biblical times, sheep and goats often grazed together, but they had different natures. Sheep followed their shepherd's voice, trusting and depending on him. Goats, however, were more independent. Jesus uses this imagery to remind us that it's enough to appear good on the outside, what matters is whether we are following Him in our hearts. As Jesus calls us to reflect His love, we must ask: are we living as his sheep, obedient to his voice and showing love to others as He has shown to us? Serving others, especially those in need, is a way to follow Jesus and honor Him. Our actions toward the least of these are ultimately acts of service to Jesus Himself.
SHARE YOUR FAITH
God is real and Jesus is coming back. This truth should compel us to shine His light, share His story, and live a life of love. Challenge: Talk to one person about the love of Jesus today.
God, thank You for sending Your Son to be our Good Shepherd. Help me to listen to His voice and follow Him faithfully. May my life reflect Your love and mercy, especially to those in need. Guide me today to serve others as if I were serving You. In Jesus' name, Amen.
PSALM 29:10-11
The Lord sits enthroned over the flood; the Lord sits enthroned as king forever. May the Lord give strength to his people! May the Lord bless his people with peace!
The God who has authority over the heavens forever is also the God who is with us in this moment.
As you reflect on God's power and authority, bring Him whatever words of worship come to mind.
HEBREWS 11:1
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
What are you hoping for today?
Bring to God whatever is on your mind, and allow Him to fill you with His hope and peace.
PHILIPPIANS 2:13
for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
How can you partner with God in the work He's doing today?
Ask God to reveal something you can do today to reflect His will.
DAILY BIBLE READING:
1 CHRONICLES 16-18
JOHN 7:28-53
THE ARK PLACED IN A TENT
they offered sacrifices, David blessed the people and distributed bread, meat and raisins. He appointed levites as ministers to invoke, thank, and praise the Lord God of Israel.
DAVID'S SONG OF THANKS
Oh give thanks to the Lord; call upon his name; make known his deeds among the peoples! Sing to Him, sing praises to Him; tell of all his wondrous works! Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice! Seek the Lord and His strength; seek His presence continually! Remember the wondrous works that He has done, His miracles and the judgements he uttered, O offspring of Israel His servant, children of Jacob, His chosen ones! He is the Lord our God; His judgements are in all the earth. Remember His covenant forever, the word that he commanded, for a thousand generations, the covenant that he made with Abraham, his sworn promise to Isaac, which he confirmed to Jacob as a statute, to Israel as an everlasting covenant, saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan, as your portions for an inheritance." When you were few in number, of little account, and sojourners in it, wandering from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people, he allowed no one to oppress them; he rebuked kings on their account, saying, "Touch not my anointed ones, do my prophets no harm!" Sing to the Lord, all the earth! Tell of His salvation from day to day. Declare His glory among the nations, His marvelous works among all the peoples! For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, and he is to be feared above all gods, For all the gods of the peoples are worthless idols, but the Lord made the heavens. Splendor and majesty are before Him; strength and joy are in His place. Ascribe to the Lord, O families of peoples, ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name; bring an offering and come before Him! Worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness; tremble before him, all the earth; Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved. Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice, and let the, say among the nations, "The Lord reigns!" Let the sea roar, and all that fills it; let the fields exult, and everything in it! Then shall the trees of the forest sing for joy before the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever! Say also: "Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather and deliver us from among the nations, that we may give thanks to your holy name and glory in your praise. Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel. from everlasting to everlasting!" Then all the people said, "Amen!" and praised the Lord.
WORSHIP BEFORE THE ARK
Asaph ministered regularly as each day required, gatekeepers, priests, sacrificing in the morning and evening, to do all that is written in the Law of the Lord that he commanded Israel. They were named to give thanks to the Lord, for his steadfast love endures forever, trumpets and cymbals for the music and instruments for sacred song. Then all the people departed each to his house, and David went home to bless his household.
THE LORD'S COVENANT WITH DAVID
Nathan said to David: Do all that is in your heart, for God is with you." but the word of the Lord came to him on the same night, "It is not you who will build me a house to dwell in. I have gone from dwelling to dwelling in tents, I will make for you a name, like the name of the great ones of the earth. and I will appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place and be disturbed no more. And violent men shall waste them no more, as formerly. I will subdue all your enemies. The Lord will build you a house.
DAVID'S PRAYER
DAVID DEFEATS HIS ENEMIES
DAVID'S ADMINISTRATION
MATTHEW 16:21-28
JESUS FORETELLS HIS DEATH AND RESURRECTION
“Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me. For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.”
TAKE UP YOUR CROSS AND FOLLOW JESUS
“If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 25For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. 26For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul? 27For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay each person according to what he has done. 28Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.”
INSIGHT
After Peter’s confession that Jesus is “the Messiah, the Son of the living God” (Matthew 16:16), Christ speaks plainly about His imminent suffering, death, burial, and resurrection (v. 21; 17:22-23; 20:17-19; 26:2). Peter rejected a Messiah who would suffer and die, but he was severely rebuked by Jesus (16:22-23). In the wilderness temptations at the start of Christ’s ministry, Satan offered to make Him king without the suffering (4:8-10). Peter’s idea of the kingly Messiah was the same as Satan’s—the crown without the cross. But going to the cross to die for sinful humanity was the primary reason Jesus came. To prevent His crucifixion is what Satan wanted. Jesus recognized that the same satanic source was behind Peter’s rejection of the cross (16:23).
By: K.T. Sim
LOVE WORTHY OF OUR LIFE
William Temple, a twentieth-century English bishop, once concluded a sermon to Oxford students with the words of the hymn “When I Survey the Wondrous Cross.” But he cautioned against taking the song lightly. “If you mean [the words] with all your hearts, sing them as loud as you can,” Temple said. “If you don’t mean them at all, keep silent. If you mean them even a little, and want to mean them more, sing them very softly.” The crowd went quiet as everyone eyed the lyrics. Slowly, thousands of voices began to sing in a whisper, mouthing the final lines with gravity: “Love so amazing, so divine / Demands my soul, my life, my all.”
Those Oxford students understood the reality that believing in and following Jesus is a serious choice, because it means saying yes to a radical love that demands everything from us. Following Christ requires our entire life, our whole being. He plainly told His disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me” (Matthew 16:24). No one should make this choice flippantly. Yet following Jesus is also the way to our deepest joy. Life with Him, we’ll discover, is the life we truly desire. It appears to be a great paradox. However, if we respond to God’s love, believe in Christ, and relinquish our selfish, shortsighted demands, we’ll find the life our soul craves (v. 25).
By: Winn Collier
REFLECT AND PRAY
What will believing in and following Jesus cost you? What will you gain?
Dear God, following You isn’t easy, but I want to give You my life and my all. In Jesus' name, Amen.
SUPERNATURAL POWER
For too long, professing Christians have downplayed the transformative power of the good news of Jesus. We have faith in Jesus, sure, but we’re pretty casual about it. We reckon once we’ve committed our lives to Jesus and secured forgiveness, we can coast through life (attending church now and then) towards heaven. But what the gospel of Jesus Christ actually offers us is so much more profound and reality-altering: it assures not only forgiveness but also the indwelling of God’s Spirit. And the Holy Spirit isn’t some abstract theological concept. He’s the very Spirit of God, the third person of the Trinity, and he’s supernaturally empowering us to realize God’s ultimate purpose: knowing God and making God known throughout the world. The Spirit’s power working in us equips us to make our lives count in this world and the next.
Think about Jesus as the perfect example of a purposeful life. His existence epitomized the pursuit of what truly matters: he delighted in God and worked towards exalting God among all nations. If we as believers want to emulate this kind of life, we need to the Spirit of Jesus in us to shape us daily into His likeness. Paul talks about this transformative work of the Holy Spirit in 2 Corinthians 3:17–18, emphasizing that wherever the Spirit is, there is freedom. This freedom isn’t a license to indulge in sin; it’s a liberation from sin and self, which sets us up for a continuous pursuit of enjoying and exalting God, the way Jesus did.
To understand how God transforms us by his Spirit, picture some concentric circles. The inner circle represents your heart. It symbolizes the profound change that happens when you place your faith in Jesus (Ezekiel 36:26–27). The next circle is your mind, the next your affections, and the next your will. In his ongoing work of transformation, God’s Spirit gradually changes your thoughts, your feelings, and your actions. This beautiful, incremental realignment of your desires with God’s will is the astonishing, inside-out power of the gospel, and it challenges the false idea that Christianity is a checklist of religious to-dos.
The incredible thing is that these concentric circles keep rippling out, extending to relationships within in the Christian community and beyond, because the Holy Spirit grows love in our lives (Galatians 5:22–23), which is an outpouring of the forgiveness and selfless sacrifice we’ve received from God. The final circle encompasses life’s purpose: Jesus’ directive to make disciples of all nations. This purpose transcends self-centered pursuits; it involves exalting God globally even while we bask in his perpetual presence with us personally.
Think about your life with the image of these concentric circles in mind. Which areas of your life do you need God to transform? Ask the Holy Spirit to align your heart, mind, affections, will, and relationships with his purposes as you continue to grow in likeness to Jesus. God has so much more for you than a superficial kind of Christianity that ends with a one-time decision. Let’s embrace a life of ongoing transformation: a total revolution of the heart and mind fueled by the power of God’s Holy Spirit in us.
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