The Daily Fountain Daily Devotional of the Church Of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) 26 November 2023 – TOPIC: ABUNDANT LIFE IN JESUS CHRIST
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THE DAILY FOUNTAIN
DAILY DEVOTIONAL OF THE
CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION)
DATE: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2023
(Sunday before Advent)
TOPIC: ABUNDANT LIFE IN JESUS CHRIST
READ: JOHN 10:7-18 (NKJV)
10:7. Then Jesus said to them again, “Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.
10:8. “All who [ever] came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them.
10:9. “I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.
10:10. “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have [it] more abundantly.
10:11. “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.
10:12. “But a hireling, [he who is] not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them.
10:13. “The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep.
10:14. “I am the good shepherd; and I know My [sheep,] and am known by My own.
10:15. “As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.
10:16. “And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there will be one flock [and] one shepherd.
10:17. “Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again.
10:18. “No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This command I have received from My Father.”
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THE MESSAGE:
Our text today is the revelation of Jesus Christ as the good shepherd. This was the continuation of the teaching He had begun after the healing of the blind man in chapter 9. Here, Jesus likened Himself to a door through which the sheep could enter. By extension, He is the door through which people could come to God the Creator and find life, with freedom and protection. The Scribes and Pharisees who were religious leaders turned themselves to wolves and thieves, oppressing and exploiting the sheep. Jesus Christ, the Good Shepherd, sacrificed everything for the flock and prepared to die that people might have life and have it in abundance. On the other hand, the aim and mission of the devil as revealed in our text is to steal, kill, and to destroy.
The moment you give your life to Jesus Christ, He brings peace into your life; you begin to live a life with meaning. A life without Christ is clueless and full of crisis. Life in abundance is only in Jesus Christ, that is why Paul in his second letter to the Corinthians says,” Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, behold, the new has come” (2 Corinthians 5:17). Jesus didn’t just offer you a new life but life in abundance – life with a right focus. Life in abundance goes beyond being alive and doing something for sustenance; it is to live in fulfilment of what you are created for, living in an abounding fullness of joy and strength in spirit, soul and body. When you come into a new relationship with Christ Jesus, He cleanses you from sin and gives you a new direction for life.
PRAYER: Father, give me the grace that I may live my life in You. Amen
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