by TheRestlessPilgrim | Aug 28, 2016 | Blog, Reflections From Jude
Jude 1:2 (NKJV) ‘Mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.’ I love the way the New Living Translation renders it: ‘May God give you more and more mercy, peace, and love.’ Yes, these are the three things I need more and more and more of. I don’t need more...
by TheRestlessPilgrim | Aug 27, 2016 | Blog, Reflections From Jude
Jude 1:1 (NKJV) ‘…To those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ:’ There are three special blessings that God gives to His beloved Saints on the earth. I rejoice because these three things are sufficient for any Saint to live on....
by TheRestlessPilgrim | Aug 26, 2016 | Blog, Reflections From Jude
Jude 1:1 (NKJV) ‘Jude, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James…’ There is so much hype of our being sons that we forget that we are also slaves. I am not just a son but a bondservant (or a slave as put in other translations). This mentality of being a...
by TheRestlessPilgrim | Aug 23, 2016 | Blog, Reflections From Galatians
Galatians 6:17 (NKJV) ‘From now on let no one trouble me, for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.’ Am not sure what this means except that Paul had gotten to the point that he could fully identify with Christ. Could the marks refer to the suffering of...
by TheRestlessPilgrim | Aug 22, 2016 | Blog, Reflections From Galatians
Galatians 6:16 (NKJV) ‘And as many as walk according to this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel of God.’ The key to peace and mercy from God is in living the crucified life. For the man who does not live for himself because he has died with...