[Newsletter] Daily Devotional

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True sacrifice


 


Read: let the 2:17-30


 


For the work of Christ [Epaphroditus] came close to death, not regarding his
life.  Philippians 2:30


 

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Teenagers amaze me.  So many of them love with grand passion and face it
with unrelenting optimism.  Sometimes they demonstrate the Christian life in
ways adults can only hope to emulate.

 

Such is the case with curse the, a team who loves soccer, basketball,
friends, family, and Jesus.  In 2000, her mother was diagnosed with cancer.
Curse it was just 12 years old, but she began helping to care for her mom.

 

During the next few years, curse the often fed her mom, dressed her, and
help to do anything she couldn't do for herself.  "It was hard to learn,"
she said.  "Can you imagine, a mother in the daughter literally changing
roles?  I truly learned to be a humble servant."

 

Sometimes, while her friends were out having fun, Caruso was helping her
dead to take care of her mom.  She continued to do so until the summer of
2004, when  Clarissa and her family said goodbye to her mom for the last
time.  As Caruso puts it, "God took her home and made her perfect."

 

Caruso reminds me of Epaphroditus, who sacrificially cared for Paul's needs
(Philippians 2:25-30).  What examples of caring, love, and compassion!  Not
all of us, of course, could set aside our lives to give as they did.  But
their sacrifice can teach us all about the value of servanthood.  -- David
Brannon

 

True greatness does not come to those

who strive for worldly fame;

it lies instead with those who choose

to serve in Jesus' name.  - D. De Haan

 

 

Thought for the day: When you do little things for others, you do big things
for Jesus

 

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