so glad you can be here for today's encouragement from our daily bread Tim gustofson wrote today's reading and he titled it when life appeared in 1986 the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine dominated the world's attention as the magnitude of the catastrophe became apparent officials scrambled to the critically essential task of containing the radiation lethal gamma rays from highly radioactive debris kept destroying the robots deployed to clean up the mess so they had to use biorobots human beings thousands of heroic individuals became Chernobyl Liquidators disposing of the hazardous material in shifts of 90 seconds or less
people did what technology could not at Great personal risk long ago our Rebellion against God introduced a catastrophe that led to all other catastrophes through Adam and Eve we chose to part ways with our creator and we made our world a toxic mess in the process we could never clean it up ourselves that's the whole point of Christmas the Apostle John wrote of Jesus in 1 John Chapter 2 the life appeared we have seen it and testified to it and we proclaimed claim to you the eternal life which was with the father and has appeared
to us then John declared the blood of Jesus God's son purifies us from all sin Jesus has provided what his creatures could not as we believe in him he restores us to a right relationship with his father he's liquidated death itself the life has appeared [Music] the scripture reading for today's devotional is from first John 1: 1-10 that which was from the beginning which we have heard which we have seen with our eyes which we have looked at and our hands have touched this we Proclaim concerning the word of life the life appeared we have
seen it and testify to it and we Proclaim to you the eternal life which was with the father and has appeared to us we Proclaim to you what we have seen and heard so that you also may have fellowship with us and our fellowship is with the father and with his son Jesus Christ we write this to make our joy complete this is the message we have heard from him and declared to you God is light in him there is no Darkness at all if we claim clim to have fellowship with him and yet walk
in the darkness we lie and do not live out the truth but if we walk in the light as he is in the light we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus his son purifies us from all sin if we claim to be without sin we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us if we confess our sins he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness if we claim we have not sinned we make him out to be a liar and his word
is not in us would you spend some time in prayer with me dear heavenly father we acknowledge our rebellion and the Brokenness that has brought to your creation we thank you for sending Jesus as the solution to our sin in we praise you for the gift of eternal life in Christ and for restoring our relationship with you help us to live in a way that others see you in us and are drawn to you thank you Lord as in Jesus name we pray amen thanks so much for listening today I'm Steven Tab and today's encouragement
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