Today's Daily Bread
Recall Notice
In 2010, auto manufacturers recalled a staggering 20 million cars
in the US for various defects. The thought of such a large number of
defective cars on the road is startling enough. But what is more
disturbing is the apathy of some owners. In one instance, the executive
director of the Center for Auto Safety warned owners, “It’s a free
repair. Get it done. It may save your life.” Yet, despite the risk to
their own lives, 30 percent never responded.
Likewise, many ignore God’s “recall notice” to the entire human race.
Unlike a defect found in automobiles, the moral defect of the human
race is not the Maker’s fault. He made everything “very good” (Gen.
1:31), but people’s sin ruined it. God’s offer to us is “repent . . .
that your sins may be blotted out” (Acts 3:19).
God offers not just a free repair of the human heart but a
replacement of it (Ezek. 36:26; 2 Cor. 5:17).
Though the offer costs us
nothing (Eph. 2:8-9), it cost God the life of His only Son Jesus Christ.
“[Jesus] bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having
died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were
healed” (1 Peter 2:24).
Don’t ignore the Lord’s call. The free and permanent remedy offered by God for your spiritual defect will save your life!
The heart of man is stained by sin,
From Adam’s fall this has been true;
Yet God in Christ can make a change—
Through faith in Him we are made new. —Fitzhugh
From Adam’s fall this has been true;
Yet God in Christ can make a change—
Through faith in Him we are made new. —Fitzhugh
For a new start, ask God for a new heart.
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