21st August 2026

The Local Assemble of Believers

"The body is not one member but many.”

1 Corinthians 12:14

Today's Bible Reading: 1 Corinthians 12:12–26.

Football is Europe’s most popular sport. For many, it is an exciting game to play, watch and support. A football team has 11 players, each player is interdependent, yet they work together as a team; As one body. We have a similar picture in the New Testament church as seen in 1 Corinthians 12. If the local church wants to be an instrument of the Lord, then it needs to function as a team, the way the Lord designed it to be—as a body. The Apostle Paul brings some important things to our attention about participating in a church.

First, we ought to realize that we need each other in order to accomplish what we are called to do (1 Corinthians 12:12–19). When teams take to the pitch, there will be 11 men lining up together. If only two or three go out to play while the rest sit on the sideline, they would have to forfeit the game. If half the team stand with their hands on their hips, the entire team is going to be badly beaten. Similarly, the people in the church—parts of one body—need each other. In the church of Corinth, some of the members thought that they were too insignificant to be used within the congregation. Paul argues that it is God who has arranged each of the members for His purpose and given each one their talents. Every member, therefore, is important and needed because God Himself has equipped that believer for some type of service within the body.

Second, we need to realise the interdependence of each member (1 Corinthians 12:20–25). Though every member of the church body is independent, they are dependent on each other as they seek to work together effectively.

Third, we should sympathise with each other, because when one member suffers, the whole body suffers (1 Corinthians 12:26). Those who watch football regularly are familiar with the sad scene that takes place when an injury occurs; players kneeling nearby, showing concern. When their teammates are in pain, they are all in pain.

Christ’s body, the church, is far more important than football—and your role as a part of that body—is eternally more significant in a world that desperately needs the Saviour.

Prayer: Heavenly Father, help each local assembly of your people, to build each other up in the truth of Your Word, in unity with each other, and a burning desire to share the Good-News with the lost. nI Christ's name I this. Amen.

20th August 2026

The True Believer

"You shall know the truth,

and the truth shall make you free.”

John 8:32

Today's Bible Reading: John 8:31-36.

The mark of a true Christian is found in their personal relationship to the Person of Jesus Christ. Christianity is Christ. Christ is Christianity. I speak reverently when I say that Jesus Christ is more than His ideas. All that He said was true, but without Him even the truth would have been powerless. We humans know the power of truth, and truth is that which sets men free. Jesus said, “I am the truth” (John 14:6), and “Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed” (John 8:36). The Christian life is not centred on a creed alone, but on a living, saving relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ Himself.

Prayer: Thank You, Lord Jesus, for the shackles that have been broken in my life because of You. Amen.

19th August 2026

An Inner Voice

"God's law is written in their hearts,

their conscience also bearing witness, and between

themselves their thoughts accusing or else excusing them."

Romans 2:15

Today's Bible Reading: Romans 2:12-16.

Each of us has a conscience which sits as a judge over our every thought, word, and deed. It speaks with a silent voice, accusing or excusing, condemning or acquitting. It can be sensitive, crude, undeveloped or distorted, depending upon the way we have used or abused it.

The human conscience is defined as “an inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one’s behaviour.” The Bible declares that the conscience is defiled by sin. “God’s law is written in their hearts, for their own conscience and thoughts either accuse them or tell them they are doing right” (Romans 2:15 NLT). 

What voice are we listening to? In the beginning of time we see this clearly demonstrated when Adam and Eve, who had been listening to the voice of God, decided to listen to the voice of Satan. All of us have experienced the backlash of guilt after a transgression. We know the haunting of the heart, the self-reproach of the mind which conscience can bring, the internal suffering that can come from being separated from God’s voice. Our consciences are seared and defiled by sin.

The conscience of a person is often beyond the reach of the psychiatrist as well. We humans are helpless to detach ourselves from the gnawing guilt of a heart weighed down with sin. But where we have failed, God has succeeded. The blood of Christ has power to cleanse the conscience from all evil thoughts and deeds, turning the heart to Him by the power of His salvation. This is the hope of mankind, and the promise of God. 

Prayer: All knowing Lord God, by the power of Your Holy Spirit, help me to live and have a good conscience. In Jesus name. Amen.