The Gospels through the Summer, Day 69 What do you reflect? Read John 1. So many amazing passages here, but for me, today, this verse 8 stands out to me. As we know, the only reason the moon shines is because it is reflecting the light from the sun. The only reason our lives shine is when we are reflecting the light of Christ. We may think we shine for other reasons, but truly the only shining that we each do is when we are showing people what it means to be like Christ. What are we reflecting today?

The Gospels through the Summer, Day 68 Jesus has risen, now what? Read Luke 24. The message of Luke finishes with a beautiful story showing the grace and power of Jesus as he meets with believers in a variety of ways and settings. This verse finishes the book. They continually praised God. How do we respond to meeting with Jesus? What does our praise look like? Jesus continues to work and to move. He is not dead; he is alive. The disciples knew it and they praised God. We know it and we are to be praising Him. Do we praise God throughout our day and in everything that we…

The Gospels through the Summer, Day 67 Do we ask God to remember us? Read Luke 23. As we come to the final chapters of the book of Luke, we see the crucifixion story again. Here in this verse, we see the criminal on the cross next to Jesus asking that Jesus remember him. Jesus knows us, better than we know ourselves and yet, coming to Christ and asking that he remember us and take special note of us shows him the respect that he deserves. It also shows that we are ready for him to move. God wants to move and work in our lives in amazing ways. When…

The Gospels through the Summer, Day 66 What do we pray for ourselves? Read Luke 22. So often when speaking with people, or even praying with people, it’s interesting to hear what types of prayers they pray for themselves. When we think of praying for ourselves, often it’s about tests that are coming up or difficult situations or relationships with people. Sometimes it can be about money or about things we want. Here Jesus is telling the disciples that they need to pray for themselves, but what they should pray is that they would not fall into temptation. Do we pray that we will have greater obedience? Do we pray…

The Gospels through the Summer, Day 65 The world is still in a crazy place. Read Luke 21. In Jesus’s time, things were weird and people wondered about the end of the world. Fast forward to today’s time, and we find people are wondering about the exact same thing. With Covid having completely changed our lives in the last year and a half and now that we find things starting to shut down again, people continue in a state of fear. The one thing that Jesus says through this chapter as a reminder to everyone is that heaven and Earth will pass away, but his words will never pass away.…

The Gospels through the Summer, Day 64 Conflict and questions. Read Luke 20. As Jesus continues his ministry, he is faced with conflict and questions. So many of the leaders see him as challenging their authority and they fear the loss of power sho they are working to discredit Jesus. However, interestingly, Jesus is able to answer all their questions and gives them nothing they can use to accuse him. While we may struggle with how we would answer questions about our faith, Jesus doesn’t struggle at all. We can rely in him to help us answer the questions that we receive, regardless of whether the questioner is sincere or…

The Gospels through the Summer, Day 63 Praise Jesus for who he is. Read Luke 19. While this chapter covers a variety of things about Jesus, what we see throughout is people praising God for who he is. They didn’t even completely understand who he was and yet, they continue to praise him and lift up rejoicing to God. Do we understand who God really is? Do we recognize just how worthy of praise he is? The great thing is that we don’t have to understand just how worthy God is of praise, we can praise him anyway. We know that he’s worthy even if we don’t understand it all…

The Gospels through the Summer, Day 62 When was the last time we did the impossible? Read Luke 18. As Jesus continues to minister to the people, we see him do amazing and profound things. He also continues to teach them and one of the most often questions that Jesus is asked has to do with how to go to heaven. Jesus answers this question and the man who asked does not like the answer. The Bible says that he walked away sad. As Jesus is telling the disciples how people can be saved, he makes the statement that “what is impossible with man is possible with God.” We have…

The Gospels through the Summer, Day 60 How do we deal with what is most important to us? Read Luke 16. Much of this chapter discusses the way in which we view and use money. This story at the end of the chapter also is a reflection of what is most important to someone. Only after death did the rich man recognize that following God and being obedient to him was most important and now he’s desperate to pass that information on to his family. However, in this life, so many people already have so many things that are pointing them to God that if they don’t believe those things,…