March 19, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

When we become aware that we do not have to escape our pains…those very pains are transformed from expressions of despair into signs of hope.

Henri Nouwen

I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.

Proverbs 8:17
The English Standard Version

March 18, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

God’s definition of beauty is a lot different than the world’s. God says that beauty is found in a gentle, quiet, and obedient spirit.

Heather Whitestone

He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him and honor him.

Psalm 91:15
The New King James Version

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.

C. S. Lewis

March 17, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

True spirituality manifests itself in certain dominant desires.
1. First is the desire to be holy rather than happy.
2. A man may be considered spiritual when he wants to see the honor of God advanced through his life even if it means that he himself must suffer temporary dishonor or loss.
3. The spiritual man wants to carry his cross.
4. Again, a Christian is spiritual when he sees everything from God’s viewpoint.
5. Another desire of the spiritual man is to die right rather than to live wrong.
6. The desire to see others advance at his expense.
7. The spiritual man habitually makes eternity-judgements instead of time-judgments.

A. W. Tozer

For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not your own doing, it is the gift of God—not because of works, lest any man should boast.

Ephesians 2:8-9
The Revised Standard Version

March 16, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Monday

Trouble is one of God’s great servants because it reminds us how much we continually need the Lord.

Jim Cymbala

Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.

Isaiah 12:2
The King James Version

Year by year the complexities of this spinning world grow more bewildering and so each year we need all the more to seek peace and comfort in the joyful simplicities.

Woman’s Home Companion, 1935

March 13, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Friday

The Lord’s Day, from morning to night, should be spent always either in private or public worship.

Samuel Rutherford

For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

Hebrews 10:36
The King James Version

Love is the voice of God.

Grace Aguilar

March 12, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

In order to arrive at having pleasure in everything,
Desire to have pleasure in nothing.
In order to arrive at possessing everything,
Desire to possess nothing.
In order to arrive at being everything,
Desire to be nothing.
In order to arrive at knowing everything,
Desire to know nothing.

John of the Cross

“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the Lord. “My Spirit, who is on you, will not depart from you, and my words that I have put in your mouth will always be on your lips, on the lips of your children and on the lips of their descendants—from this time on and forever,” says the Lord.

Isaiah 59:21
The New International Version

March 11, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

The giant step in the walk of faith is the one we take when we decide God no longer is a part of our lives. He is our life.

Beth Moore

“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.”

Matthew 6:14-15
The New King James Version

Kids can never be hugged too much.

Lee Ann, age 8

March 10, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

Jesus has many who love his kingdom in heaven, but few who bear his cross. He has many who desire comfort, but few who desire suffering. He finds many to share his feast, but few his fasting. All desire to rejoice with him, but few are willing to suffer for his sake. Many follow Jesus to the breaking of bread, but few to the drinking of the cup of his passion. Many admire the miracles but few follow him to the humiliation of his cross. Many love Jesus as long as no hardship touches them.

Thomas a Kempis

Exalt the Lord our God and worship at his holy mountain, for the Lord our God is holy.

Psalm 99:9
The New International Version

March 9, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Monday

Taking us through suffering, not out of it, is one of the primary means that the Spirit uses today in bringing us to God.

Daniel Wallace

He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.

Proverbs 28:27
The King James Version

The world is new to us every morning—this is God’s gift; and every man should believe he is reborn each day.

Baal Shem Tov

March 6, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Friday

This spiritual prayer is more interior than the tongue, more deeply interiorized than anything on the lips, more interiorized than any words or vocal song. When someone prays this kind of prayer he has sunk deeper than all speech, and he stands where spiritual beings and angels are to be found; like them, he utters “holy” without any words.

John the Solitary

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and spirit, of joints and marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Hebrews 4:12
The Revised Standard Version

God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself.

C. S. Lewis

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