So glad you can join me for today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread.

A reading titled A Life in Four Words was written by John Blaze.

James Anel Packer, better known as J.I. Packer, died in 2020, just five days shy of his 94th birthday. A scholar and a writer,

his best-known book, Knowing God, has sold more than 1.5 million copies since its publication.

Packer championed biblical authority and disciple-making and urged believers in Christ everywhere to take living for

Jesus seriously. He was asked late in his life for his final words to the church. Packer had one

line, just four words. Glorify Christ every way. Those words reflect the life of the Apostle Paul, who, after his

dramatic conversion, faithfully set about to do the work before him and trusted God with the

results. Paul's words found in the book of Romans are some of the most theologically packed in the

entire New Testament, and Packer sums up in close company with what the apostle wrote,

glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Paul's life is an example for us.

We can glorify God in many ways, but one is by living the

life set before us and leaving the results in God's unchanging hands. Whether writing books or

taking missionary journeys or teaching elementary school or caring for an aging parent,

the same goal holds.

Glorify Christ every way.

As we pray and read scripture, God helps us live with devoted obedience and keep our daily lives on track to honor Jesus in everything we say and do.

The scripture reading for today's devotional is from Romans chapter 15, verses 1 through 6.

We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves.

Each of us should please our neighbors for their good

to build them up. For even Christ did not please himself, but as it is written, the insults of

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