 | Moravian Daily TextsSaturday, November 30 -- Psalm 137
Hosea 13,14; Revelation 4:9-5:10
When their breath departs, they return to the earth; on that very day their plans perish. Psalm 146:4
Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. Colossians 3:2
Heavenly Father, some of us will spend more time on this earth than others, and some of us will leave a larger footprint. May each of us be reminded to appreciate the time that we have and strive to live a life worthy of you. Amen.
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 | | | | Friday November 29, 2013
Our Lives, Sowing Times Our short lives on earth are sowing time. If there were no resurrection of the dead, everything we live on earth would come to nothing. How can we believe in a God who loves us unconditionally if all the joys and pains of our lives are in vain, vanishing in the earth with our mortal flesh and bones? Because God loves us unconditionally, from eternity to eternity, God cannot allow our bodies - the same as that in which Jesus, his Son and our savior, appeared to us - to be lost in final destruction. No, life on earth is the time when the seeds of the risen body are planted. Paul says: "What is sown is perishable, but what is raised is imperishable; what is sown is contemptible but what is raised is glorious; what is sown is weak, but what is raised is powerful; what is sown is a natural body, and what is raised is a spiritual body" (1 Corinthians 15:42-44). This wonderful knowledge that nothing we live in our bodies is lived in vain holds a call for us to live every moment as a seed of eternity. The wonderful knowledge, that nothing we live in our body is lived in vain, holds a call for us to live every moment as a seed of eternity. 
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| Text excerpts taken from Bread for the Journey, by Henri J.M. Nouwen, ©1997 HarperSanFrancisco. All Scripture from The Jerusalem Bible ©1966, 1967, and 1968 Darton, Longman & Todd and Doubleday & Co. Inc. Photo by V. Dobson.
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 | | | | Thursday November 28, 2013
Our Mortal Bodies: Seeds for the Resurrection
Our mortal bodies, flesh and bones, will return to the earth. As the writer of Ecclesiastes says: "Everything goes to the same place, everything comes from the dust, everything returns to the dust" (Ecclesiastes 3:20). Still, all that we have lived in our bodies will be honored in the resurrection, when we receive new bodies from God.
What sorts of bodies will we have in the resurrection? Paul sees our mortal bodies as the seeds for our resurrected bodies: "What you sow must die before it is given new life; and what you sow is not the body that is to be, but only a bare grain, of wheat I dare say, or some other kind; it is God who gives it the sort of body that he has chosen for it, and for each kind of seed its own kind of body" (1 Corinthians 15:36-38). We will be as unique in the resurrection as we are in our mortal bodies, because God, who loves each of us in our individuality, will give us bodies in which our most unique relationship with God will gloriously shine. |
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| Moravian Daily TextsThursday, November 28 -- Psalm 135:13-21
Hosea 8,9; Revelation 3:7-18
The living God delivers and rescues. Daniel 6:26-27
We have seen and do testify that the Father has sent his Son as the Savior of the world. 1 John 4:14
Heavenly Father, we are gratified for your promises and your forgiveness, which are proof of your love and your presence. We are thankful for our loved ones, near and far, living and departed. Most of all, we are grateful for the sacrifice your Son made for us. We pray that you will continue to keep us all in your loving care. Amen.
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 | | | | Wednesday November 27, 2013 Having Reverence and Respect for the Body
In so many ways we use and abuse our bodies. Jesus' coming to us in the body and his being lifted with his body in the glory of God call us to treat our bodies and the bodies of others with great reverence and respect.
God, through Jesus, has made our bodies sacred places where God has chosen to dwell. Our faith in the resurrection of the body, therefore, calls us to care for our own and one another's bodies with love. When we bind one another's wounds and work for the healing of one another's bodies, we witness to the sacredness of the human body, a body destined for eternal life.
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 | | | | Tuesday November 26, 2013 Wounds Becoming Signs of Glory
The resurrection of Jesus is the basis of our faith in the resurrection of our bodies. Often we hear the suggestion that our bodies are the prisons of our souls and that the spiritual life is the way out of these prisons. But by our faith in the resurrection of the body we proclaim that the spiritual life and the life in the body cannot be separated. Our bodies, as Paul says, are temples of the Holy Spirit (see 1 Corinthians 6:19) and, therefore, sacred. The resurrection of the body means that what we have lived in the body will not go to waste but will be lifted in our eternal life with God. As Christ bears the marks of his suffering in his risen body, our bodies in the resurrection will bear the marks of our suffering. Our wounds will become signs of glory in the resurrection.
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