Monday, June 23, 2008

The Lord's Words Are Spirit and Are Life

Let's Pray:
Speak to us the living word, the word of life. Lord, grace us, and speak into every one of our hearts. May You supply us, tend our wounds, heal us, and lead us on richly today.

Hymn: 1113

Today's Verses and Footnotes: John 6:52-71

Key Verse: John 6:63

It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words which I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

Filling the Blanks:
After resurrection and through resurrection, the Lord Jesus, who had become ( ) (John 1:14), became the Spirit who gives ( ), as is clearly mentioned in 1 Cor. 15:45. It is as the life-giving Spirit that He can be life and the life supply to us. When we ( ) Him as the crucified and resurrected Savior, the Spirit who gives life comes ( ) us to ( ) eternal life into us. (See John 6:63 note 1)

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