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Exodus 14:14 • Bible Verse of the Day
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Chaos and Violence in Mexico: Authorities urge people to stay home
23 February 2026 | Mexico City, February 22, 2026 – Widespread panic gripped thousands of residents and travelers, with videos showing passengers and airport staff fleeing for shelter amid reports of gunfire and armed clashes. The violence comes just hours after Mexican authorities confirmed the elimination of El Mencho in a targeted operation in Tapalpa, […] Source: https://atoday.org/chaos-and-violence-in-mexico-authorities-urge-people-to-stay-home/
Tuesday: God’s Eternal Plan
Daily Lesson for Tuesday 24th of February 2026
Read Colossians 1:24-25. What does Paul say about his suffering for Christ’s sake?
Though Paul wrote Colossians while under house arrest in Rome, perhaps his greatest suffering came from not being able to labor intensively from place to place and house to house, as he had done previously (Acts 20:20). These afflictions (or tribulations), which Christ forewarned of (Matthew 24:9, John 16:33), “are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us” (Romans 8:18). This is the bigger picture. As Paul had written to the Christians in Philippi, so now to the Colossians he rejoices over his sufferings, which are for their benefit (Colossians 1:24).
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Paul may be in prison, but “the word of God is not bound” (2 Timothy 2:9). While Paul was in this confinement, Philippians, Ephesians, and Philemon were also written. After his release, God inspired him to write the important counsels found in 1 Timothy and Titus. Then, during his final imprisonment in a Roman jail, he wrote 2 Timothy. In short, these final years provided Paul the opportunity to write a significant portion of the New Testament, which probably included Hebrews.
God’s eternal plan envisioned all of this and more. The Greek word Paul uses in Colossians 1:25, generally translated “stewardship,” is oikonomia. Used in a limited sense (as, for example, in 1 Timothy 1:4), it refers to “God’s way of ordering things.”—Luke Timothy Johnson, The First and Second Letters to Timothy (New York: Doubleday, 2001), p. 164. That would include Paul’s apostleship. But in a broader sense, it includes all the provisions God has made in the plan of salvation. The ministry of Paul, the other apostles, and even the prophets of the Old Testament (Ephesians 2:20, Ephesians 3:5), including Moses, were designed “to fulfill the word of God” (Colossians 1:25), all in connection with this divine plan.
Although we will look more closely at this topic in tomorrow’s study, it is helpful at this point to notice that Paul recognized his ministry as just one small part of a much larger, long-range divine plan that began being implemented “from the foundation of the world” (Matthew 13:35, Ephesians 1:4).
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Think about your own life. How might the decisions you make (big and small) fit within God’s larger plan? Can we really know whether a decision is actually “small”? How might it have larger ramifications that will become apparent only later? |
Comments of the Week Feb 16-23
Comments of the Week Feb 16-23 “If there is a god with the traits we are told he/she has, he/she is not dishonored or harmed. The harm done, apart from the individuals involved, is to God, Inc. God is big business with lots of purported and self-appointed agents.” -Arthur Klym on Are We God’s Publicists? […] Source: https://atoday.org/comments-of-the-week-feb16-23/
