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🌟 Daily Radio Bible: December 9, 2024 - Reflecting on Service and Advent 

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🕊️ Reflecting on Service and Advent:

Welcome to the Daily Radio Bible, dear friends! Today is December 9th, 2024, and we are on day 343 of our journey through the scriptures. I'm Hunter, your host, and Bible reading coach, here to guide you through today's readings and reflections. Together, we'll explore 1 Timothy chapters 5 and 6, and the entire book of Titus. Our focus will be on themes of respect, godliness, selflessness, and the importance of serving others. We'll conclude with a heartfelt prayer, seeking courage, patience, and anticipation during this Advent season. So, settle in and let the living Word of God speak to your heart today. Let's dive in!

TODAY'S DEVOTIONAL:

Focus on others, Paul says, here in verse 14.

Our people must learn to do good by meeting the urgent needs of others, then they will not be unproductive. Ironically, the opposite is true. If you want to have an unproductive life, an unfruitful life, then focus only on yourself. Zig Ziglar put it this way, you can get everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people to get what they want. And in John 12 24, Jesus says, I tell you the truth. Unless a kernel of wheat is planted in the soil and dies, it remains alone. But its death will produce many new kernels, a plentiful harvest of new lives. A productive and fulfilling life comes when we take the focus off ourselves and begin to serve others.

This doesn't mean that your life isn't worth anything, that abasement and self degradation are the goal. No. Your life is absolutely worthy of respect and love and care. Christ has demonstrated for us just how valuable your life is, and he has shown us the context of our lives. We are creatures that are made in relationship to others, and your own unique gifting and glory will find its deepest and truest expression as we pursue our lives in service to others. When we die to making this life about us, then we will have all that we want, more than we could have imagined, in this life and in the life to come, and we can actually begin to do that now. Because our anxieties about our lives have been dealt with in Christ. He has restored our self respect.

He has made clear what our value is. So we don't have to try to compensate for something we think is missing and fight to make this life all about us. The gospel of Mark says this, for even the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many. So let us learn to do good by meeting the urgent needs of others, and we will not be unproductive. That's the prayer that I have for my own soul. That's the prayer that I have for my family, for my wife, my daughters, my son. And that's a prayer that I have for you. May it be so.

TODAY'S PRAYERS:

Lord God Almighty and everlasting father you have brought us in safety to this new day preserve us with your Mighty power that we might not fall into sin or be overcome by adversity. And in all we do, direct us to the fulfilling of your purpose  through Jesus Christ Our Lord amen.  

Oh God you have made of one blood all the peoples of the earth and sent your blessed son to preach peace to those who are far and those who are near. Grant that people everywhere may seek after you, and find you. Bring the nations into your fold, pour out your Spirit on all flesh, and hasten the coming of your kingdom through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.  

And now Lord,  make me an instrument of your peace.  Where there is hatred let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon.  Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope.  Where there is darkness, light.  And where there is sadness,  Joy.  Oh Lord grant that I might not seek to be consoled as to console. To be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love.  For it is in the giving that we receive, in the pardoning that we are pardoned, it is in the dying that we are born unto eternal life.  Amen

And now as our Lord has taught us we are bold to pray...

Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven, give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our tresspasses as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not unto temptation, but deliver us from evil, for thine is the Kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.

Loving God, we give you thanks for restoring us in your image. And nourishing us with spiritual food, now send us forth as forgiven people, healed and renewed, that we may proclaim your love to the world, and continue in the risen life of Christ.  Amen. 

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