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DAILY DIVINE WORD, 12TH FEBRUARY 2020

SHADOW
Text: Job 8:9
[9](For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)

While growing up, we love walking around light that will reflect our image either on the wall or on the floor, we will jump and make mockery of how the image formed from the resulting light on our body doesn't really have the exact shape and look of our body. Sometimes, we'll laugh off the big head this image has added to our heads, sometimes, the limbs will be bigger, the height increased and we'll just mock the image. Shadow is a rough sketch or reflection of something, it's not the real deal.

The scripture above clearly stated that our days here are just a shadow. Shadow of what? The life a natural man lives here is just a rough projection of the life beyond here, it's not the real life. We are just of yesterday, many peoples have passed this same path like us, so, we know absolutely nothing because our lives here is a shadow. That's the reason Jesus admonishes us to keep our minds and focus on the things above because that's the real deal.

If you concentrate all your efforts on the life here, and you make mockery of the life beyond here, how then can you reconcile the gap between the shadow and the reality? Jesus has come to give us a template, showing us the life that is being shadowed here on earth, so we are not just living a shadowed life anymore, but we already have the real deal with us. John 3:16 made us understand that we now have eternal life because we believe in Christ. The life of the spirit is the real life. 

THINK TANK: The knowledge of Christ has translated us into living the life of God.

PRAYER: Father, help me to concentrate my life on your finished work in Jesus Name.

✍️ Temileyi Adeoti Mayokun
© IGNITE GENERATION

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