iPod Daily Verse: Colossians 1:17-18
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iPod Daily Verse: Exodus 15:11
Moses isn’t trying to remind his people of a timeless truth here (although it is a timeless truth). The people had just witnessed God’s miraculous handling of the Red Sea and Pharaoh’s armies. They had just been saved from certain destruction at an angry king’s hand. This is an adrenaline-pumped song of celebration!
When was the last time you had cause for celebration like this? When was the last time God pulled your backside out of the fire in a major way?
iPod Daily Verse: Jude 1:24-25
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Able to keep you from stumbling
Do you–like me–need to be reminded of this? So many times, my dogged pursuit of the truth is (or later becomes) driven by my lack of faith in this area. I live a life that reflects Ben Franklin’s (unbiblical) adage, “God helps those who help themselves.” Instead of trusting God to keep me from stumbling, I rely on my own efforts and, ironically enough, this is itself a sort of stumbling.
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present you blameless… with great joy
He’s speaking of God’s great joy, not ours. It’s easy to think of my own joy being great when I’m finally presented “blameless before the presence of his glory,” but I’ll admit that I usually see God as an exhausted parent who’s just barely tolerating me. It’s unnatural for me to think of him as being filled with “great joy” at my final blameless presentation; instead, my tendency is to think if him collapsing in his throne and thinking, “finally, that’s over!”
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the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord
Isn’t is so easy to see God (the Father) as the big, mean disciplinarian and Jesus as the kind, forgiving one (like a cosmic “good cop/bad cop”)? But no, the Father himself is our Savior.
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to God… be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever
This isn’t a request, it’s a declaration: all glory, majesty, dominion and authority have been, are, and will forever belong to God! He even has dominion over our souls, which is how he can “present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy.” The ESV got it wrong; this should end with an exclamation mark!
