A Blessing to Offer
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Jude 2 Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance
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Jude 25 to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority
JUDE begins this short letter with a blessing. We’re getting close to New Year’s Day, and I think the blessing is a wonderful greeting to send to your friends to begin the new year.
What better thing could happen to people in the coming year than to experience and enjoy an abundance of mercy, peace and love to receive and to give? A life filled with these blessings is a life that is responding to God’s grace of salvation. And it is a life that gracefully offers mercy, peace and love to others.
Be careful to guard this blessing. Many will come along to attack your beliefs. They will test your commitment to your Lord. And you will be tempted to turn from God’s gracious gifts to you.
So remember who you worship. In Jesus Christ, your Savior, is glory, majesty, power and authority. Jesus’ glory is the honor we give him because he has paid the price for our sin. Jesus’ majesty is his Kingship. He reigns over all the earth. Jesus’ power cancels sin, judges wrong and welcomes his own into his Kingdom. Jesus’ authority is to be feared. He has the final say on who enters heaven.
Yes, as you believe in Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, you have received mercy, peace and love. Nurture these wonderful gifts. Cause these blessings to grow in you by giving them to others.
Pause and Consider: evil in the world will attack you because of your gifts. Jesus will protect you.
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