Verse of the Day 6/10

Through the Bible - 2 Chronicles 34-36, John 19:16-42

 

Good morning,

Stop and consider what God's Word means to you.  What is it doing in you, is it causing you to grow?

I recently read Luke 8 about the parable of the soils and the following verses brought those questions to my mind.

Luke 8:11  "This is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God.  NIV
God's Word is the seed that causes, brings about growth, fruit in our lives.

Luke 8:15 But the good soil represents honest, good-hearted people who hear God's message, cling to it, and steadily produce a huge harvest.  NLT
We are to cling to it through thick and thin.  When we do, it will be productive in us.

Luke 8:21 Jesus replied, "My mother and my brothers are all those who hear the message of God and obey it."  NLT
In this verse Jesus tells the disciples that His family are those hear hear His Word, His message, and obey it.

For today's verse we'll go to today's New Testament reading in John 19.

John 19:35 The man who saw it has given testimony, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe.   NIV
John saw how Jesus lived, recorded His life and words and expresses why he wrote this gospel, that you may believe and grow.

An example of some who came to Jesus, who came to faith and grew in faith is recorded after this event.  Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus.

John 19:38 Later, Joseph of Arimathea asked Pilate for the body of Jesus. Now Joseph was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly because he feared the Jews. With Pilate's permission, he came and took the body away.

39 He was accompanied by Nicodemus, the man who earlier had visited Jesus at night.    NIV
They had secretly followed but now they are out in the open showing their love for Him.

How can we apply these verses in our lives?

Blessings,
Mike

mikevw@bellsouth.net
mikesvotd.blogspot.com

John 19:31-20:1

31 Now it was the day of Preparation, and the next day was to be a special Sabbath. Because the Jews did not want the bodies left on the crosses during the Sabbath, they asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies taken down.

32 The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the first man who had been crucified with Jesus, and then those of the other.

33 But when they came to Jesus and found that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.

34 Instead, one of the soldiers pierced Jesus' side with a spear, bringing a sudden flow of blood and water.

35 The man who saw it has given testimony, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe.

36 These things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled: "Not one of his bones will be broken,"  

37 and, as another scripture says, "They will look on the one they have pierced."  

38 Later, Joseph of Arimathea asked Pilate for the body of Jesus. Now Joseph was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly because he feared the Jews. With Pilate's permission, he came and took the body away.

39 He was accompanied by Nicodemus, the man who earlier had visited Jesus at night. Nicodemus brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds.  

40 Taking Jesus' body, the two of them wrapped it, with the spices, in strips of linen. This was in accordance with Jewish burial customs.

41 At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid.

42 Because it was the Jewish day of Preparation and since the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.   NIV