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Today's Early Church Wisdom
'A man must, above all, strive after knowledge and reason, if he wants to take up his cross and follow Christ, constantly examining his thoughts ... and adhering to God with all his strength.'
Mark the Ascetic
Late 4th C.
This week's Psalm is Psalm 30 'Joy Comes With The Morning'

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Perfect Submission

Bible commentators have noted that the meaning of the term dikaiosynē (righteousness) includes “compliance with everything enjoined” and active participation in God’s redemptive order. At the Jordan, Jesus, though sinless, steps into a baptism of repentance to identify with humanity and inaugurate His mission, embodying what one commentary summarises as doing “all that God requires” and modelling obedient submission. What a wonderful thought: “All” that God requires! Here we see a righteousness that is not passive purity but lived obedience. This is what John Gill describes as fulfilling both moral and appointed duties under the Father’s will, and what B. W. Johnson frames as “perfect obedience” expressed in action. The greatest power comes with the greatest love and submission to God. He gave His all for us, let us give our all for Him.

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