January 21
Paul says: “In me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing” (Romans 7:18).
A threshing-floor is the place where you separate the wheat from the chaff. All were saying
what a wise man David was, but throughout his history, there often appeared little else but
chaff in his brain. Through his failures God said to him: “Look at the chaff”. Only after being
brought to many ‘threshing-floors’, was David’s brain delivered from the chaff. Though he
was a king, he had to be rebuked by God many times, and had to pay a great price for
deliverance.
We have all of us to pay a heavy price to be God’s servants. We have to be prepared to be
delivered from our chaff, and first of all from the chaff in our brain! What is that chaff? In
God’s sight it is all that we have secured through our own intellectual ability. In Isaiah 40:6
we read: “All flesh is grass”. He is the grain of wheat – He is our true wisdom. All our
experiences are designed to teach us to depend on that wisdom alone.
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Resurrection of Jesus Christ
Jan 21
O death, where is thy sting? …
—1 Corinthians 15:55
Death is the most democratic experience in life for we all participate in it. We think of its happening only to other people. We don’t like to grow old, and we don’t like to die. The Bible teaches that death is an enemy of man and God. But it also teaches that this enemy, death, will ultimately be destroyed forever; that in fact it has already been defeated at the cross and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Death, for a Christian, brings permanent freedom from evil. It also means the believer will be like Jesus. We shall be like Christ in love. So much of self is involved in what we do here; but one day, in Christ, we will have perfect love. What a glorious time it will be when we get to heaven!