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Welcome to A Year in the Bible with daily grace. This year, we want to spend a few minutes with you every day walking through our study Christ in All of Scripture. Each week we will dive deeply into two passages of Scripture, one from the Old Testament and one from the new, seeing how they connect and point to Jesus.
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Whether you are doing the study yourself or just following along with us here, we are hopeful that through studying these passages each week, you will see how Christ is not only present throughout the entire biblical story, but but the center of it.
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Hi friends. Welcome back to A Year in the Bible. My name is Beth and I am here with my co host Alexa.
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Hi, friends.
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So this week we have looked at Jonah 1:17 and Matthew 12:40, and we have learned that Jesus is the true and better Jonah. As we wrap up this week, we want to consider how we can apply all the things that we've learned this week about Jesus to our daily lives. So, Alexa, how do you plan on applying what you've learned?
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Yeah, I've been really challenged this week when it comes to obedience to God. I think it's really easy to read Jonah and say, jonah, what are you doing? When he runs away from God and the task that God has given him. But if I'm honest, I can be like Jonah. I can be afraid of what God asks me to do. And while I do eventually get there in terms of obedience, I do sometimes initially panic and want to run away from what God wants. And I do think at times I do run away. We we talked about this recently on the podcast, but I'm so prone to run away from opportunities to talk about my faith. When I get that nudge from the spirit to talk to someone or say something. There are times where I've been like, nope, I'm not gonna do it. And I don't. But then I considered Jesus's obedience. Jesus didn't run from God's plan. He embraced it. Philippians 2. 8 tells us that Jesus humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even to death on a cross. Sometimes I look at Christ's obedience and think, I can't be obedient like him. And there is some truth to that. We can't be perfect in our obedience on this side of etern. But because Jesus has delivered us from sin and given us new life in him, we have the ability to choose obedience to God. And Jesus gives us the strength to walk in obedience to God. So in light of Jesus's obedience, I want to rely on Jesus to respond with immediate obedience in general, but especially when God is calling me to do something in particular, even if whatever he's calling me to do is hard or scary.