Well, I am up to day 11 of 14. The weekend is getting closer!
Today the journal focuses on the body.
"Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God - this is your spiritual act of worship." (Romans 12:1)
Our bodies were made in God's image. They were meant to serve our souls, which in turn serve our spirits.
Our bodies can carry a lot of pain and suffering, but Jesus is able to help us. Hebrews 2:18 tells us that Jesus was tempted and He suffered Himself. He knows what we go through which gives Him the ability to help us through temptation.
Our physical condition is also very important to Jesus. He spent a lot of His time healing the sick and instructed us to continue to do so in His name. "By His wounds we are healed" (Isaiah 53:4-5). When Jesus dies on the cross He took away our sickness, He healed us by taking our errors and our sicknesses onto the cross with Him.
Not only does he care about our pain, suffering and physical condition. He cares about our poverty. In 2 Corinthians 8:9 it tells us that He became poor so that we might become rich. He gave all He had, so that we would not have to live in poverty, so that we had the opportunity to be set free from slavery.
Thankful for: Toilet Paper
Yes, laugh... I know I did. I was just thinking about what I could be thankful for... and that's what came to my head. Maybe it has something to do with noticing there was an empty toilet roll that has somehow made it into my room, I don't know. Sometimes it's important to be thankful for the crazy little things, we don't realise how much it brings to life... but imagine life without it and you'd soon be thankful for it too!
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