DCLM Daily Manna 2025: DCLM Daily Manna 6 April 2025: Good Things To Remember
Key Verse: Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.” – (2 Peter 1:15).
Read: 2 Peter 1:5-16(KJV)
But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, 6 to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, 7 to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. 8 For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.
10 Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble; 11 for so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
12 For this reason I will not be negligent to remind you always of these things, though you know and are established in the present truth. 13 Yes, I think it is right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you, 14 knowing that shortly I must put off my tent, just as our Lord Jesus Christ showed me. 15 Moreover I will be careful to ensure that you always have a reminder of these things after my decease.
16 For we did not follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of His majesty.
What people say just before they die matters a lot. It reflects their dreams and what they lived for. The famous Bible scholar, Matthew Henry (1662-1714) was reported to have said on his dying bed, “You have been used to take notice of the sayings of dying men. This is mine: that a life spent in the service of God, and communion with Him, is the most comfortable and pleasant life that anyone can live in this world.” It is no wonder that today, long after his demise, Mathew Henry’s Bible Commentary is still a significant reference book for Bible students worldwide.
Apostle Peter wants us to remember the cardinal teachings of Scripture even when He is gone to glory. Peter admonishes believers to remember some things three times in the passage we read today. First, they should remember to grow and add spiritual values to their lives. Second, he would want them to make their calling and election sure as believers. The third thing is to remember that the grace of God was able to keep them to the end as God had promised. He wanted them to remember these truths even when he was gone.
Believers must seek to grow spiritually. It is evidence of our continuous and healthy relationship with the Lord. We must possess faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness, and charity. As we grow, we must also remember to leave a good legacy behind. Peter was aware of the nearness of his life’s end and desired that believers who outlive him to keep the pattern of focused spiritual growth to the end.
We are in the end-time, and the coming of the Lord is near. No one should take anything for granted as we await the trumpet call anytime. Our daily toil and labour demand that we look to Jesus as our Example in all things and then organise our lives in agreement with His plan so that, like Matthew Henry, we will live a “life spent in the service of God and communion with Him.” That is how to end well.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Should you leave this world today, for what will you be remembered?
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Daily Manna 6 April 2025
