While you may have heard of Rousseau, Nietzsche, Darwin, and Freud, very few people have ever read their works, and yet their ideas resonate powerfully with millions across the globe, and their influence is seen almost everywhere from Disney to Playboy to your local school district.
We all know we should read the Bible and love it, but our actions often reveal much less enthusiasm than we would care to admit. How will this change? Not by a New Year’s resolution per se, but by the power of God working through his word as we feed on it.
The gospel is uniquely designed to bring diverse people together as the apostle Paul stated plainly in Galatians 3:27-28, “For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.”
Your daily work is a part of God’s holy purpose for your life. It is the means by which you serve and bless others, producing goods or services which meet some human need.
The Lord is the true source of every good gift, so when we give we imitate his largess. God’s generosity in giving his own Son for our sins ought to lead us to give even more sacrificially and lovingly.