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Day by Day Devotional - Year 4 of 5
Devotional: December 24th

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2 Corinthians 8:9-24

What was the love of the Macedonians compared with the supreme example of "our Lord Jesus Christ"? They themselves had not chosen their deep poverty (v. 2). But He, the "Heir of all things" (Hebrews 1:2) has condescended to make Himself poor by laying aside His heavenly glory, to be born in a stable, to be "the poor Man" in this world, the One who had nowhere to lay His head (v. 9; Psalms 40:17; Psalms 41:1; Luke 9:58). Why? To make us rich with that same glory and to make us His coheirs. What a marvellous mystery of grace!

The Corinthians had not fully carried out their praiseworthy desire to help the assemblies. The apostle writes to them that to will was good but doing was even better. Alas! often our good intentions . . . remain intentions: offering that Bible or that gospel calendar, that visit to a sick person, that small service which presented itself . . . May God give us the same readiness to will as to do (vv. 11, 12). He is the One who produces both in us according to His good pleasure (Philippians 2:13), but the delay between the movement of the heart and the hand comes from our negligence.

The concern of Paul was to be kept not only from all deceit but even from all appearance of evil in men’s eyes.

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