Confident in Christ's Work

Daily Window for March 12




6 "For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus. 7 For it is only right for me to feel this way about you all, because I have you in my heart, since both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers of grace with me." (Philippians 1:6-7)

       •   Give thanks that we can have confidence in Jesus Christ, knowing He never fails.

       •   Celebrate the work that God has begun in your by the gospel of Jesus Christ.

       •   Rejoice that you are not what you used to be and that He is at work in your today.

       •   Pray for your submission to the work of the gospel of grace in your heart by His Spirit.

       •   Pray that today we would be more like Jesus Christ than ever before now.

       •   Ask God to create the kind of bond and unity in which we treasure one another in our hearts, we labor together for the gospel, we acknowledge our common bond as partakers of the gospel, and we love one another in spite of AND for our differences.

God's Work of Grace

“Over a hundred years ago, a group of fishermen were relaxing in the dining room of a Scottish seaside inn, trading fish stories. One of the men gestured widely, depicting the size of a fish that got away. His arm struck the serving maid’s tea tray, sending the teapot flying into the whitewashed wall, where its contents left an irregular brown splotch. The innkeeper surveyed the damage and sighed, ‘The whole wall will have to be repainted.’ ‘Perhaps not,’ offered a stranger. ‘Let me work with it.’ Having nothing to lose, the proprietor consented. The man pulled pencils, brushes, some jars of linseed oil, and pigment out of an art box. He sketched lines around the stains and dabbed shades and colors throughout the splashes of tea. In time, an image began to emerge: a stag with a great rack of antlers. The man inscribed his signature at the bottom, paid for his meal, and left. His name: Sir Edwin Landseer, famous painter of wildlife. In his hands, a mistake became a masterpiece. God’s hands do the same, over and over.” (Max Lucado, Come Thirsty)