Tuesday, December 11, 2018
At EACF we've been using the G.R.O.W. rubric to ask God to teach us through His word. We'll use that for this Advent devotional series as well.
PRAY and ask God to meet you and teach you as you read His word today.
READ Revelation 9. Meditate on verse 20, how these unbelievers do not repent despite the turmoil of judgment. How is this true int he world today?
REFLECT
God - What does God teach us about Himself through this text? The judgment of the people of the earth continues and the images here are terrible still. This is God's attitude toward sin.
Redeems - How does God work in our lives? Judgment happens, past, present, and future. But God has sealed us (4) in Christ and we are saved.
Our - What is our identity as highlighted here? We are rescued from God's great wrath by God's great grace alone.
World - How is God calling us to share His grace with the world? How can we turn people from their sin? We cannot, only Jesus can.
RESPOND
The images here are the stuff of horror movies and nightmares: why is it that the imagination of man conjures up such images to frighten us but we have so little fear of God? That is a theme here. God is the One we ought to fear, for His judgment is true, righteous, and final. Only by the seal of the Lamb are we marked safe. God, help us to take sin and judgment seriously. The signs of our sin and its resultant death are all around us, signs of our brokenness and the disharmony of the world with us. Turn us toward You in Spirit and in truth.
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