Daily Devotional: Thursday, September 26 – Straight Shooter

“Let the depraved forsake their methods and the unrighteous their ideas. Allow them to flip to the Lord, and he may have mercy on them, and to our God, for he’ll freely pardon.” — Isaiah 55:7

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There as soon as was a basketball staff referred to as the Straight Shooters who would go into prisons to play a basketball sport and share the Gospel at halftime. The gamers had been all males who in some unspecified time in the future of their lives had decided to comply with Christ. They got here from all walks of life. There have been academics, scientists, legal professionals and so forth. At one explicit sport, the halftime discuss made reference to one of many gamers being a lawyer.

You may think about who was the most well-liked participant for the inmates to see after the sport. Many inmates lined as much as communicate to the lawyer, looking for free authorized counsel or maybe to make a connection for gratis that might assist them down the highway and possibly discover pardon for his or her sentence.

Isaiah 55:1 says, “Come, all you who’re thirsty, come to the waters; and also you who haven’t any cash, come, purchase and eat … with out cash and with out value.” Isaiah 55:7b provides, “Allow them to flip to the Lord, and he may have mercy on them, and to our God, for he’ll freely pardon.”

Though jokes had been made on the time about how widespread the lawyer was within the jail, it was a poignant reminder that all of us can discover pardon in Christ. A reminder that there’s a free supply of mercy within the Gospel. Free solely as a result of Jesus Christ served our sentence when He died on the cross for us. Not solely did He die, however He additionally rose once more from the jail of demise and set us free from the guilt of our sins.

Might we study to take benefit on daily basis of Christ’s free supply of mercy in our lives, to maneuver previous guilt and a checkered previous and reside for Him in freedom. And will we all the time be looking for to share the message of the Gospel with those that nonetheless discover themselves imprisoned by sin and dwelling just for the issues of this world.

— Frick Frierson

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