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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

That piety which sanctifies us, and which is a true devotion to God, consists in doing all His will precisely at the time, in the situation, and under the circumstances, in which He has placed us.  Perfect devotedness requires not only that we do the will of God, but that we do it with love.  God would have us serve Him with delight; it is our hearts that He asks of us.

François Fénelon

This Day's Verse

Even if we believe that it makes no difference to the Lord whether we do these things, still we cannot just go ahead and do them to please ourselves; for we must bear the “burden” of being considerate of the doubts and fears of others—of those who feel these things are wrong.  Let’s please the other fellow, not ourselves, and do what is for his good and thus build him up in the Lord.  Christ didn’t please himself.  As the Psalmist said, “He came for the very purpose of suffering under the insults of those who were against the Lord.”  These things that were written in the Scriptures so long ago are to teach us patience and to encourage us so that we will look forward expectantly to the time when God will conquer sin and death.

Romans 15:1-4
The Living Bible

This Day's Smile

Prayer is the soul getting into contact with the God in whom it believes.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

I must practice unlimited forgiveness because, if I did not, I should be wanting in veracity to myself, for it would be acting as if I myself were not guilty in the same way as the other has been guilty towards me.

Albert Schweitzer

This Day's Verse

I will give thanks to you, Lord, with all my heart; I will tell of all your wonderful deeds.  I will be glad and rejoice in you; I will sing the praises of your name, O Most High.

Psalm 9:1-2
The New International Version

This Day's Reprise

God is stripping me of everything to give me Everything.

E. Stanley Jones

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Though faith may act more easily when it has some help from sense, yet it acts most nobly when it acts in opposition to sense.  Then it is pure faith when it stands upon its own legs—the power and Word of God.

Thomas Boston

This Day's Verse

“He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much; and he who is dishonest in a very little is dishonest also in much.”

Luke 16:10
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

Struggle diligently against your impatience, and strive to be amiable and gentle, in season and out of season, towards every one, however much they may vex and annoy you—and be sure that God will bless your efforts.

Francis de Sales

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

We cannot say that this or that trouble shall not befall us.  Yet we may, by help of the Spirit, say that nothing that doth befall shall make me do that which is unworthy of a Christian.

Richard Sibbes

This Day's Verse

I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.

Philippians 4:11
The King James Version

This Day's Reprise

If God is here for us and not elsewhere, then in fact this place is holy and this moment is sacred.

Isabel Anders

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

That which is often asked of God is not so much His will and way, as His approval of our way.

Sarah F. Smiley

This Day's Verse

So we can plainly see that God’s method changed, for Christ, the new High Priest who came with the rank of Melchizedek, did not become a priest by meeting the old requirement of belonging to the tribe of Levi, but on the basis of power flowing from a life that cannot end.

Hebrews 7:15-16
The Living Bible

This Day's Smile

When obstacles and trials seem
Like prison-walls to be,
I do the little I can do,
And leave the rest to Thee.

Frederick W. Faber

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

When the mind thinks nothing, when the soul covets nothing, and the body acteth nothing that is contrary to the will of God, this is perfect sanctification.

Unknown, found written in a 1599 Bible

This Day's Verse

But I have trusted in Your mercy; My heart shall rejoice in Your salvation.  I will sing to the Lord, Because He has dealt bountifully with me.

Psalm 13:5-6
The New King James Version

This Day's Reprise

God didn’t want me to do more for Him.  He wanted me to be more with Him.

Bruce Wilkerson

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

It is faith’s work to claim and challenge loving kindness out of all the roughest strokes of God.

Samuel Rutherford

This Day's Verse

Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

Isaiah 40:12
The King James Version

This Day's Smile

God loved us enough to save us from sin’s past penalty.
God loves us enough to save us from sin’s present power.
God loves us enough to save us from sin’s future presence.

Josh Weidmann

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

We are never without help.  We have no right to say of any good work, “it is too hard for me to do,” or of any sorrow, “it is too hard for me to bear;” or of any sinful habit, “it is too hard for me to overcome.”

Elizabeth Charles

This Day's Verse

Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

1 John 4:7
The New Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

Wiser it were to welcome and make ours
What’er of good, though small, the Present brings,—
Kind greetings, sunshine, songs of birds, and flowers,
With a child’s pure delight in little things.

R. C. Trench

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