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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 4 of 5
Luke 10:10-24
The Lord Jesus now speaks solemnly to the cities where He had taught and performed so many miracles. He emphasizes the great responsibility of those living there. What would He say today about so many young people brought up in Christian families, much more privileged yet also more responsible than so many others?
The seventy return with joy. The fact that the devils had been subject unto them turns the Lord’s thoughts to the moment when the devil himself will be cast out of heaven onto the earth (Revelation 12:7 . . .). But the Lord Jesus invites His disciples to rejoice for a different reason: heaven, once purged of Satan, will become their dwelling-place. From now on their names are written there. Now the Lord, in His turn, rejoices and marvels, not at the power which had been made manifest, but rather at the counsels of the God of love. It pleased the Father to make Himself known through His Son. And, contrary to what we usually tell children: "when you are older, you will understand this or that", to whom has such a revelation rightly been made? It is to the babes and those who in simple faith and humility become like them. Do we fulfil such conditions?
