If you read the suggested passage each day, by the end of 30 days you will have read the entire New Testament.
Day 22
30-day reading plan: 2 Corinthians
Daily Verse: 2 Corinthians 6:2
For he says,
“In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.”
I tell you, now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation.
When you see someone standing on the street corner with a sandwich board and a bull horn, you already know what he is saying before you even hear him. You’ve heard the message enough to know that he is yelling at the crowd of passers-by to repent of their sin or they will burn in Hell. Non-believers are rarely concerned about burning in Hell for eternity. Many non-believers think they are good people and will therefore be going to Heaven.
Before I became a believer, I prayed to God and believed in Heaven. I wasn’t concerned with Hell, because I knew a personal Hell of mental health illness. For me, salvation has not been about a ticket aboard the Heaven bound train. My salvation has been in this life as I have experienced healing through the love of God and mercy of Christ. Since coming to believe in the Lord, I have been properly diagnosed as having bipolar disorder. I have been released from the personal Hell of trying to cope with mental health illness without help. I still deal with mental health illness every day, but the yoke is lighter with appropriate treatments and counseling, coping skills, prayer, and self-awareness.
Non-believers are looking for this type of salvation, a release from their personal Hell and reconciliation to God through salvation that leads to wholeness and healing of our brokenness. I have personally experienced so much salvation in this life that I can’t imagine how Heaven will bring greater healing. That’s the salvation the world is looking for and can find in Christ. People don’t need the fear of Hell; they need the promise of healing.
Question for reflection:
How have you experienced salvation and reconciliation in this life?
30-day reading plan: 2 Corinthians
Daily Verse: 2 Corinthians 6:2
For he says,
“In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.”
I tell you, now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation.
When you see someone standing on the street corner with a sandwich board and a bull horn, you already know what he is saying before you even hear him. You’ve heard the message enough to know that he is yelling at the crowd of passers-by to repent of their sin or they will burn in Hell. Non-believers are rarely concerned about burning in Hell for eternity. Many non-believers think they are good people and will therefore be going to Heaven.
Before I became a believer, I prayed to God and believed in Heaven. I wasn’t concerned with Hell, because I knew a personal Hell of mental health illness. For me, salvation has not been about a ticket aboard the Heaven bound train. My salvation has been in this life as I have experienced healing through the love of God and mercy of Christ. Since coming to believe in the Lord, I have been properly diagnosed as having bipolar disorder. I have been released from the personal Hell of trying to cope with mental health illness without help. I still deal with mental health illness every day, but the yoke is lighter with appropriate treatments and counseling, coping skills, prayer, and self-awareness.
Non-believers are looking for this type of salvation, a release from their personal Hell and reconciliation to God through salvation that leads to wholeness and healing of our brokenness. I have personally experienced so much salvation in this life that I can’t imagine how Heaven will bring greater healing. That’s the salvation the world is looking for and can find in Christ. People don’t need the fear of Hell; they need the promise of healing.
Question for reflection:
How have you experienced salvation and reconciliation in this life?
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