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DEVOTION
Can You Repeat That?
“…but God shows His love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us,” – Romans 5:8
The gospels are four separate accounts of the same story - the life, ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. There are a few stories that get covered twice in the Bible like this one told in Mark 12 and Luke 21. But four versions of the same story could be considered a great deal of overkill - until you think about it.
When you were in school, you learned that if the teacher or professor repeated something more than once, it was an important point that would likely come back to you in the form of a test question. You also learned that a good teacher is unafraid to repeat information and share it in multiple ways to ensure the learner has acquired the skill or retained the information.
There is importance in something that is repeated. God gives us His word through the scriptures. More specifically, He shares the story of Jesus with us in the four gospels. The Bible is critically important to us because it provides guidance, wisdom, life, and most of all, salvation to those who hear and believe it. Still don’t believe me? Think about the importance of something you have said and have heard hundreds of times in your life…
I love you.
Is that an important phrase? It certainly is. Remember back to the time when you first realized that you had fallen in love with someone. Did you wrestle with saying it - not knowing if you should because once you spoke those words, your relationship with that person would change forever?
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