Throughout 2024, we're going to read through the scriptures together as a KXC family, journeying through the text, grappling with the same passages, asking questions and being drawn into a daily encounter with Jesus.
Each day, we're setting aside our best time to immerse ourselves in the text so we might live out the story of God in our city, letting his voice be the most formative one in our lives. Rather than eating the bread of anxious toil as the Psalmist says, we want to eat the bread that truly satisfies.
We’ve made a new journal following the church calendar which provides a passage for each day and space to write down what God might be saying to us through the text.
BREAD Devotional
From Death to Life
W/C 05.05.24
Have you recently discussed death over the dinner table or in a small group of friends or family? If it’s something you’re walking through right now maybe it was recent. For lot’s of us the answer is probably a no.
Death is something we don’t commonly talk about and yet we all have it in common. At some point we all would have experienced death. In a more figurative way we might have experienced the death of a dream or a relationship. We’ll also all experience the death of a loved one and eventually we’ll all participate in our own death. So…. shall we end it there and you can just enjoy this week's BREAD readings?
If that was the end then that version of life is pretty bleak. The good news is that it doesn’t end there for us. One of the core messages of the Bible is that our life here is merely the beginning, it’s temporary and it’s not where we find home. This means we don’t have to be afraid of death. I’ve been surrounded by this message as long as I’ve been in church. We sing about it, hear it from our preachers and read it in the bible but sometimes they just feel like words and not truth. This week as you’re engaging with the passages I encourage you to really allow that message to deeply root itself as truth.
As we are reminded in ‘Fighting Back’ by KXC worship: “death’s not the end, it's You calling us home.”