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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

It is of the very essence of faith that we should believe that what Jesus says is true. So often we have a kind of vague, wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really to enter into them is to believe them with the clutching intensity of a drowning man.

William Barclay

This Day's Verse

And what does he desire? Godly offspring.

Malachi 2:15
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

The luxuries we indulge in eventually come to seem to be necessities, as if we could not live without them.

Yisrael Salanter

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note—torn in two and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

Henry Ward Beecher

This Day's Verse

You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.

Jeremiah 29:13
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with.

Luis Palau

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

It is not the distance of the earth from the sun, nor the sun’s withdrawing itself, that makes a dark and gloomy day; but the interposition of clouds and vaporous exhalations. Neither is thy soul beyond the reach of the promise, nor does God withdraw Himself; but the vapors of thy carnal, unbelieving heart do cloud thee.

John Owen

This Day's Verse

Know that the LORD, He is God; It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.

Psalm 100:3
The New King James Version

This Day's Reprise

The hungry need bread and the homeless need a roof; the dispossessed need justice and the lonely need fellowship; the undisciplined need order and the slaves need freedom. To allow the hungry to remain hungry would be blasphemy against God and one’s neighbor, for what is nearest to God is precisely the need of one’s neighbor.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

For a long generation we have been engaged in simplifying the Gospel, in saying to the intellectually perplexed, “You need not believe that.” We have pared down the Gospel, shrunk and reduced it until in our churches, preachers have sometimes seemed to be playing a game to see how little a man may believe and still be a Christian.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

This Day's Verse

Since you have been chosen by God who has given you this new kind of life, and because of his deep love and concern for you, you should practice tenderhearted mercy and kindness to others. Don’t worry about making a good impression on them, but be ready to suffer quietly and patiently. Be gentle and ready to forgive; never hold grudges. Remember, the Lord forgave you, so you must forgive others.

Colossians 3:12-13
The Living Bible

This Day's Smile

“I’ll not take your money, Pastor,” Old John insisted after the Saturday shoe shining was completed. “You shine my soul on Sunday, and I’ll shine your shoes on Saturday.” “From that time on,” said the minister, “I made a special effort to be helpful in every sermon of mine and in all my other speaking—to shine people’s souls.”

Good Business

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

Our physical demand is great. We need a healthy body. We dealt so much in soulfulness, we forgot the holiness of the body. We neglected physical health and strength; we forgot that we have holy flesh, no less than holy spirit.

Abraham Isaac Kook

This Day's Verse

Yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me.

John 16:32
The English Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

God often takes a course for accomplishing His purposes directly contrary to what our narrow views would prescribe. He brings a death upon our feelings, wishes and prospects when He is about to give us the desire of our hearts.

John Newton

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

For John, belief means the conviction of the mind that Jesus is the Son of God, the trust of the heart that everything he says is true and the basing of every action on the unshakable assurance that we must take him at his word. When we do that we stop existing and begin living.

William Barclay

This Day's Verse

Turn Yourself to me, and have mercy on me, For I am desolate and afflicted. The troubles of my heart have enlarged; Bring me out of my distresses! Look on my affliction and my pain, And forgive all my sins.

Psalm 25:16-18
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

Remember, a small light will do a great deal when it is in a very dark place. Put one little tallow candle in the middle of a large hall, and it will give a good deal of light.

D. L. Moody

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

It is human to err, it is devilish to remain willfully in error.

Augustine

This Day's Verse

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs the heart.

Proverbs 21:2
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

We are not here to play, to dream, to drift.
We have hard work to do and loads to lift.
Shun not the battle; face it. ’Tis God’s gift.

Maltbie D. Babcock

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

Character is built into the spiritual fabric of personality hour by hour, day by day, year by year in much the same deliberate way that physical health is built into the body.

E. Lamar Kincaid

This Day's Verse

Let love be your highest goal!

1 Corinthians 14:1
The New Living Translation

This Day's Reprise

From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.

Teresa of Ávila

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

We have lost the art of worship. We are not producing saints. Our models are successful businessmen, celebrated athletes, and theatrical personalities. We carry on our religious activities after the methods of the modern advertisers. Our homes have been turned into theatres, our literature is shallow, our hymns border on sacrilege and scarcely anyone seems to care. Christianity is little more than objective truth, sweetened with song and made palatable through religious entertainment. Christ calls men to carry a cross, but we call them to have fun in His name.

A. W. Tozer

This Day's Verse

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:

Ecclesiastes 3:1
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

To be far from God is better than to be near, if we are not next to God.

G. K. Chesterton

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

Most people are concerned about their own material needs and another person’s spirituality. It should be the other way around: a person is obligated to be concerned with his own spirituality and the material well-being of others. The material needs of my neighbor are my spiritual need.

Yisrael Salanter

This Day's Verse

Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.

Romans 12:15
The King James Version

This Day's Reprise

Mirth is God’s medicine.

Henry Ward Beecher

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