| For Saturday, November 7 |
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| SCRIPTURE READING: Hebrews 10:1-7 |
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| KEY VERSE: The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming (Heb. 10:1).
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| Only a Shadow |
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Do children still play shadow tag? The object of the game is to step on another person's shadow, and then that person is "it." Of course, you can't hold on to the shadow. Shadows can be helpful; the shade of a big tree provides a cool spot on a summer day. But shadows often give a distorted image. If we take a walk in the morning, we appear to be 10 feet tall, while at noontime, we seem to be very short. Shadows are not the real thing.
God gave the Law with its rituals and sacrifices to point forward to Christ. They were a reminder of humanity's need and offered only a temporary solution for the problem of sin, and so were repeated year after year.
Jesus' sacrifice of himself was the reality that the Law foreshadowed and makes cleansing from sin possible. To cling to anything else as a means of salvation is to grasp at shadows. The tabernacle or temple worship, church attendance, religious rituals, Christian parents can point the way. That is all they can do. Real life, real joy, real salvation are found in Jesus.
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| -Juanita Nelting |
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| SING TO THE LORD |
My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus' blood and righteousness.
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| "The Solid Rock" by Edward Mote |
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| REACH OUT IN PRAYER |
| That many young people in Honduras will be called into full-time Christian ministry. |
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| THOUGHT FOR THE DAY |
| When the time had fully come, God sent his Son (Gal. 4:4). |
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| THROUGH THE BIBLE IN A YEAR |
| John 11-13 |
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