The verse from last week is a great one to hide away in your heart. Is it hard for you to remember not to "repay evil with evil or insult with insult"? It is for me sometimes. Today in my Bible reading I came across a verse that went perfectly with this memory verse....a great example from Christ. The passage was from Mark 14 as Jesus was before the chief priests and Sanhedrin. Here is a portion of the story...
Mark 14:57-60
57 Then some stood up and gave this false testimony against him: 58"We heard him say, 'I will destroy this man-made temple and in three days will build another, not made by man.' " 59Yet even then their testimony did not agree.
60Then the high priest stood up before them and asked Jesus, "Are you not going to answer? What is this testimony that these men are bringing against you?" 61But Jesus remained silent and gave no answer.
Did you catch that? Look at verse 61. "But Jesus remained silent and gave no answer."
When I read this I immediately thought of last week's memory verse. What a great example Jesus is to us in being silent! It is much easier to lash out when people say lies about us. It is much easier to think of a hundred negative things we can say against them. How much more difficult is it to be silent? Yet that is what Jesus did and that is what the memory verse calls us to do also.
Now for this week's memory verse. It is found in Romans 6:22, 23---
"But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Have a great week!
2 comments:
This verse makes me think of something else that has stuck in my mind the past week from my reading in Romans 6. When tempted to sin, I keep remembering that it says we are no longer slaves to sin, but now we are slaves to righteousness.
Wow!! It is much more difficult to remain silent, I have found.
Your memory verse this week is great!!
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