Perfectly Imperfect | Discovering Grace When Perfect Isn’t Possible, a 7-Day Devotional by Jacques McNeil

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Acts 19:23-41 | Living for Christ in a Confused World

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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LUK.12.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">And he told them this parable: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;The ground of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LUK.12.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">He thought to himself, &#8216;What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LUK.12.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.12.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Then he said, &#8216;This is what I&#8217;ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store my surplus grain.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LUK.12.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And I&#8217;ll say to myself, &#8220;You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.&#8221;&#8198;&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LUK.12.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LUK.12.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;But God said to him, &#8216;You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LUK.12.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LUK.12.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;This is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich toward God.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="LUK.12.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning,</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="LUK.12.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">like servants waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="LUK.12.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">It will be good for those servants whose master finds them watching when he comes. Truly I tell you, he will dress himself to serve, will have them recline at the table and will come and wait on them.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="LUK.12.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">It will be good for those servants whose master finds them ready, even if he comes in the middle of the night or toward daybreak.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LUK.13.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then he told this parable: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;A man had a fig tree growing in his vineyard, and he went to look for fruit on it but did not find any.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LUK.13.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">So he said to the man who took care of the vineyard, &#8216;For three years now I&#8217;ve been coming to look for fruit on this fig tree and haven&#8217;t found any. Cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LUK.13.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LUK.13.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Sir,&#8217; the man replied, &#8216;leave it alone for one more year, and I&#8217;ll dig around it and fertilize it.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LUK.13.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If it bears fruit next year, fine! If not, then cut it down.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MRK.4.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">He also said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MRK.4.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MRK.4.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">All by itself the soil produces grain&#8212;first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in the head.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MRK.4.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because the harvest has come.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MRK.4.29"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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