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Is it this important to me?
Reading:

John 13:31-38

What is it?

What do I do with it?

And how much do I want it?

This much…?

“Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him” (John 13:31).

Jesus was going to be betrayed and denied and abandoned.

He was going to suffer and die.

But He saw glory.

His glory and God’s glory.

“I’m half awake now, yet, somehow, that really strikes me,” I wrote at 9:41 this morning (after going to bed after 11:30 last night and getting up at 3:35 this morning to take nephew Robert Nelson to the airport).

[The Scriptures say in John 13:34 -- As I have loved you]
from John 13:34

Reading:
Philippians 1:19-26

What does that mean?

“For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain” (21).

Wow, that’s a familiar verse!

The second part is clear enough, but what does that middle section mean?

“to live is Christ”

I know what…. I’ll see if my computer Bible has some helpful cross references….

Not many. But check these out:

“…Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death…” (Philippians 1:20).

“For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s” (Philippians 2:21).

“When Christ, who is our life…” (Colossians 3:4).

I thought of these as well:

“He that hath the Son hath life…” (1 John 5:12).

“…I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by…” (Galatians 2:20).

So…what do you think?

[The Scriptures say in Philippians 1:21 -- To live is Christ]
from Philippians 1:21