January 14, 2021 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

“Dad, I’m not at all sure I can follow you any longer in your simple Christian faith,” stated the clergyman’s son when he returned from the university for the holidays with a fledgling scholar’s assured arrogance. The father’s black eyes skewered his young son, who was “lost,” as C. S. Lewis put it, “in the invincible ignorance of his intellect.” “Son,” the father said, “that is your freedom. Your terrible freedom.”

Unknown

May the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

Romans 15:33
The English Standard Version

January 13, 2021 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

When we pray, remember:
1. The love of God that wants the best for us.
2. The wisdom of God that knows what is best for us.
3. The power of God that can accomplish it.

William Barclay

And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

2 Timothy 4:18
The King James Version

I used to spend my nights dreaming about the life I wanted to live. Now I live my dreams, and I spend my nights sleeping.

Dan Ogden

January 12, 2021 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

Grant, O merciful God, that with malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as You give us to see the right, we may strive to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds…to do all that which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Abraham Lincoln

Sanctify them in the truth; thy word is truth.

John 17:17
The Revised Standard Version

January 11, 2021 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Monday

Make me remember, O God, that every day is Thy gift and ought to be used according to Thy command, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Samuel Johnson

I will meditate on the glorious splendor of Your majesty, And on Your wondrous works. Men shall speak of the might of Your awesome acts, And I will declare Your greatness.

Psalm 145:5-6
The New King James Version

You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

Anne Lamott

January 8, 2021 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Friday

Waiting for someone to repent before we forgive is to surrender our future to the person who wronged us.

Lewis Smedes

For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:

Colossians 1:16
The King James Version

So while the hours are passing,
All now is perfect rest;
I’m waiting for the morning,
The brightest and the best,
When He will call us to His side,
To be with Him, His spotless bride.
Oh, the love that sought me!
Oh, the blood that bought me!
Oh, the grace that brought me to the fold,
Wondrous grace that brought me to the fold!

W. Spencer Walton

January 7, 2021 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

A godly father prayed all his life for three wayward sons. When he was dying, strangely he died in an agony of despair and doubt of his eternal salvation. The day after the funeral the three sons were discussing their father. “If a man so godly should die in such agony, what will it be like for us?” one asked. As a result, all three turned to God.

F. W. Boreham

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.

Revelation 1:8
The Revised Standard Version

January 6, 2021 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

The question for each man to settle is not what he would do for the Lord if he had more money, time or education, but what he will do with the things he has. It’s not who you are or what you have that matters—but whether Christ controls you.

Unknown

Then they cried to the Lord in their troubles, and he rescued them! He led them from the darkness and shadow of death and snapped their chains. Oh, that these men would praise the Lord for his loving-kindness and for all of his wonderful deeds!

Psalm 107:13-15
The Living Bible

Grace is like the secret of a lover we’ve not yet met, the echo of a time we’ve not yet experienced, news from a county we’ve not yet been to.

C. S. Lewis

January 5, 2021 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

The great people of the earth today are the people who pray. I do not mean those who talk about prayer; nor those who can explain about prayer; but I mean those people who take time and pray. They have not time. It must be taken from something else. This something else is important, very important and pressing, but still less important and less pressing than prayer.

S. D. Gordon

And have you completely forgotten this word of encouragement that addresses you as a father addresses his son? It says, “My son, do not make light of the Lord’s discipline, and do not lose heart when he rebukes you, because the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and he chastens everyone he accepts as his son.”

Hebrews 12:5-6
The New International Version

January 4, 2021 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Monday

The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but my badness, not my merit but my misery, not my standing but my failing, not my riches but my need.

Charles Spurgeon

For the Lord your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you and give your enemies over to you; therefore your camp shall be holy, that He may see no unclean thing among you, and turn away from you.

Deuteronomy 23:14
The New King James Version

Perhaps God has you right where you are because it’s the only place he can make you what he wants you to be.

Rubel Shelly

January 1, 2021 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Friday

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

C. S. Lewis

For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Jeremiah 29:11
The Revised Standard Version

Plant carrots in January and you’ll never have to eat carrots.

Unknown

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