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December 29 - Radiant in the Dark · Bible Chat Devotional

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  Welcome to Bible Chat, where we have devotional conversations
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  rooted in Scripture and relevant for today, December 29th.
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  Radiant in the dark Have you ever tried getting ready in the
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  dark? Like the lights are off, you're
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  guessing, and everything feels uncertain?
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  That's what it can feel like living in this world sometimes.
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  But God calls you to be radiant anyway.
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  Not with perfect appearance, but with real character.
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  Proverbs chapter 31 verse 30 says charm is deceitful and
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  beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.
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  That's not an insult to beauty. It's a reminder that beauty
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  without God doesn't last and charm without character can fake
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  you out. Second Peter chapter 3 verse 10
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  sobers us up. The day of the Lord will come
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  like a thief, and the earth and the works that are done on it
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  will be exposed. That means what's hidden won't
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  stay hidden forever. The things people flex online
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  won't matter the way they think. The only life that stands is the
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  one built on Jesus, truth, holiness, love and faithfulness
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  and revelation. Chapter 19, verse 7 gives the
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  hope. Let us rejoice, for the marriage
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  of the Lamb has come and his bride has made herself ready.
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  The bride is the church, God's people.
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  That means you're not just waiting around for the future.
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  You're preparing. You're becoming.
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  You're learning to love Jesus more than distractions, more
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  than approval, more than the temporary shine of the world.
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  So in a dark, noisy culture, you can be radiant by fearing the
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  Lord, by living with integrity when others fake it, by choosing
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  purity when others compromise, by loving people when others use
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  them. You're getting ready for
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  something bigger than this life. Let's pray.
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  Heavenly Father, help me value what you value.
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  Teach me that real beauty is found in a heart that fears you
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  and loves you. Keep me from being distracted by
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  what fades and help me live with purpose because the day of the
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  Lord is real. Prepare me as part of your
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  church, ready, faithful, and full of love for Jesus.
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  Let my life shine in the dark with your light, in Jesus name,
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  with God in today's three-year Bible Reading plan Proverbs 3110
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  to 31 World English Bible. Who can find a worthy woman, for
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  her value is far above rubies. The heart of her husband trusts
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  in her. He shall have no lack of gain.
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  She does him good and not harm. All the days of her life she
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  seeks wool and flax and works eagerly with her hands.
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  She is like the merchant ships. She brings her bread from afar.
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  She rises also while it is yet night, gives food to her
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  household and portions for her servant girls.
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  She considers a field and buys it with the fruit of her hands.
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  She plants a vineyard. She arms her waist with strength
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  and makes her arm strong. She perceives that her
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  merchandise is profitable. Her lamp doesn't go out by
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  night. She lays her hands to the
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  distaff, and her hands hold the spindle.
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  She opens her arms to the poor. Yes, she extends her hands to
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  the needy. She is not afraid of the snow
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  for her household, for all her household are clothed with
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  scarlet. She makes for herself carpets of
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  tapestry. Her clothing is fine linen and
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  purple. Her husband is respected in the
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  gates when he sits among the elders of the land.
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  She makes linen garments and sells them, and delivers sashes
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  to the merchant. Strength and dignity are her
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  clothing. She laughs at the time to come.
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  She opens her mouth with wisdom. Kind instruction is on her
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  tongue. She looks well to the ways of
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  her household and doesn't eat the bread of idleness.
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  Her children rise up and call her blessed.
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  Her husband also praises her. Many women do noble things, but
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  you excel them all. Charm is deceitful and beauty is
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  vain, but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.
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  Give her of the fruit of her hands.
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  Let her works praise her in the gates.
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  Second Peter 31 to 13 World English Bible.
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  This is now, beloved, the second letter that I have written to
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  you. And in both of them I stir up
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  your sincere mind by reminding you that you should remember the
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  words which were spoken before by the holy prophets and the
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  commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior.
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  Knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come
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  walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise
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  of His coming? For from the day that the
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  fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the
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  beginning of the creation. For they willfully forget that
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  there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water
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  and amid water by the word of God.
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  By which means the world that existed then, being overflowed
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  with water, perished. But the heavens that exist now,
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  and the earth by the same word, have been stored up for fire,
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  being reserved against the day of judgement and destruction of
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  ungodly men. But don't forget this one thing,
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  beloved, that one day is with the Lord as 1000 years, and 1000
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  years as one day. The Lord is not slow concerning
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  His promise, as some count slowness, but He is patient with
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  us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all
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  should come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will
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  come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away
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  with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with
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  fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be
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  burned up. Therefore, since all these
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  things will be destroyed like this, what kind of people ought
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  you to be in holy living and godliness, looking for and
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  earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, which will cause
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  the burning heavens to be dissolved, and the elements will
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  melt with fervent heat? But according to His promise, we
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  look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness
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  dwells. Revelation 19.
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  World English Bible. After these things, I heard
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  something like a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven saying
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  Hallelujah. Salvation, power and glory
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  belong to our God. For His judgments are true and
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  righteous. For He has judged the great
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  prostitute who corrupted the earth with her sexual
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  immorality, and He has avenged the blood of His servants at her
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  hand. A second said Hallelujah.
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  Her smoke goes up forever and ever.
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  The 24 elders and the four living creatures fell down and
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  worshipped God who sits on the throne, saying Amen, Hallelujah.
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  A voice came from the throne saying, Give praise to our God,
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  all you his servants, you who fear Him, the small and the
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  great. I heard something like the voice
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  of a great multitude, and like the voice of many waters, and
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  like the voice of mighty thunders, saying Hallelujah.
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  For the Lord our God the Almighty reigns.
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  Let's rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let's give the glory
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  to Him. For the wedding of the Lamb has
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  come and his wife has made herself ready.
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  It was given to her that she would array herself in bright,
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  pure, fine linen. For the fine linen is the
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  righteous acts of the Saints. He said to me, Right, blessed
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  are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb.
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  He said to me, These are true words of God.
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  I fell down before his feet to worship him.
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  He said to me, Look, don't do it.
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  I'm a fellow bond servant with you and with your brothers who
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  hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony
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  of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
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  I saw the heaven opened, and behold a White Horse, and he who
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  sat on it is called faithful and true.
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  In righteousness He judges and makes war.
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  His eyes are a flame of fire, and on his head are many crowns.
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  He has names written, and a name written which no one knows but
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  he himself. He is clothed in a garment
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  sprinkled with blood. His name is called the Word of
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  God. The armies which are in heaven,
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  clothed in white, pure fine linen, followed him on white
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  horses. Out of his mouth precedes a
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  sharp double edged sword, that with it he should strike the
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  nations. He will rule them with an iron
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  rod he treads the wine Press of the fierceness of the wrath of
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  God the Almighty. He has on his garment and on his
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  thigh a name written King of Kings and Lord of LORDSI saw an
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  Angel standing in the sun. He cried with a loud voice,
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  saying To all the birds that fly in the sky, Come, be gathered
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  together to the great supper of God, that you may eat the flesh
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  of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, and the
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  flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of
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  all men, both free and slave, small and great.
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  I saw the beast, the kings of the earth and their armies
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  gathered together to make war against him who sat on the horse
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  and against his army. The beast was taken, and with
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  him the false prophet who worked the signs in his sight with
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  which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast
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  and those who worshipped his image.
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  These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with
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  sulfur. The rest were killed with the
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  sword of him who sat on the horse, the sword which came out
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  of his mouth. So all the birds were filled
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  with their flesh. Thanks for joining us on Bible
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