Devotion
The Real Walking Dead
David Jacobs
Much worse than committing one's sins, God abhors those who do not acknowledge their mistakes or ask for the forgiveness of their transgressions. If you fail to embrace your mistakes, ask for forgiveness, or work towards positive change then you are in fact living a lie. We are born with sin, we learn, we grow, we reflect, we repent, and then we are reunited with our creator.
Failing to acknowledge our sins and working to repair our relationship with God is the real zombie apocalypse. We have turned our back on the Lord's light to become brain dead consumers without direction and free will.
This is how more than one tribe or city has perished in the past. So often the lie is even worse than the original transgression, for it is committed out of cowardice to answering for our own actions, or to hide from our own consciences our true selves.
Prayer
By becoming the lie, we lose ourselves. If your life is a lie, then the true you is dead.
Cleanse yourself for the Lord! He does not take pleasure in wishing to punish you, but rather wishing for you to cleanse your soul with the truth and live!
Devotion
Abraham is Father of All
Frances Taylor
There are questions in every age about the importance of the Old Testament for Christians. Abraham is considered to be the Father of Faith for Jews, Christians and Muslims. We forget that it was Abraham who believed in the doctrine of only one God. It is through him and his descendants that this tradition comes down to us. Another fact that we can overlook is that Jesus was Jewish. He was born a Jew, lived as a Jew, died, rose and ascended into heaven as a Jew. Because we believe that he was the Messiah, the Christ, and we follow him, we are called Christian. Without the Old Testament, we wouldn't understand the promise of salvation; we wouldn't understand why it was important for Jesus to be of the family of King David. We would not understand his teaching either, because Jesus quoted from Scripture – the Old Testament – frequently. He told us that he came to fulfill the Scriptures, not to abolish them. In the same way, we can ...
