II Corinthians 4:5-7
"For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. For God, Who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us."
Meditation
"And I knew Him not: but He that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon Whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on Him, the same is He which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost." John 1:33
"Whosoever shall deny Me before men, him will I also deny before My Father Who is in heaven." Matthew 10:33
"...in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed My Voice." Genesis 22:18
"Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?" James 2:21
It is expected of you – even as of faithful Abraham – that you back up your faith by works (Rom. 4:2). Abraham was accepted and blessed and covenanted with BEFORE he offered up his son Isaac; but when he sealed his faith through works, then did the unstinted mercies of God multiply through blessings lavished on him and on his seed.
"And He left them, and entering into the ship again departed to the other side. Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread, neither had they in the ship with them more than one loaf." Mark 8:13-14 (see also vss. 15-21)
The more I see of the world and this generation, and the more I reflect on the TRUTH through and in Jesus Christ, the greater grows my conviction that the paramount, that the ALL-important message for the world of today, is the present reality of the spiritual Kingdom of Jesus Christ right here and now; and soon to be invested by His personal return to earth.