December 24, 2010

Daily Verse

 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ² He was with God in the beginning.

John 1:1

Daily Devotion

God's Cure- C.P. Hia

As physicians we may call our patients and urge them, “Please come in as soon as you can. I have something to discuss with you.” Sometimes we will have bad news! Our patients first response might be, “No, I don’t want to know.” But we tell them anyway because it is only when they know the diagnosis that they can know the cure.

God, our Great Physician, also has some bad news—about man’s spiritual condition. When against His expressed warning Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, God told Adam that all mankind would die spiritually and physically. That’s the bad news.

But He also gave the solution. He promised a Savior (Gen 3:15). The apostle John tells us, “Grace and truth came through Jesus Christ” (John 1:17). But how does that help? Jesus came that first Christmas to bring God’s grace, something that none of us deserve because like Adam we have all sinned. But Jesus also came to reverse what sin brought. He came to be the truth (John 14:6) that would bring us back to God. He came to “save His people from their sins” (Matt 1:21).
Listen to what the Great Physician has to say in the Bible about your spiritual condition. Then accept the cure He has provided—the gift of salvation through Christ.

Life is uncertain,
Death is sure;
Sin the cause,
Christ the cure. —Anon.

Prayer for today
Ask God today to cure you in the areas needed.