August 14, 2019 by This Day's Thought

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

Our perseverance is really His perseverance in us.

James M. Baird, Jr.

O Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you; I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, plans formed of old, faithful and sure.

Isaiah 25:1
The English Standard Version

There is one trouble with full-time angels; they are completely unpredictable and you cannot send out for one. That is why part-time angels are so important. Part-time angels like you and me.

Lee Ballard

August 13, 2019 by This Day's Thought

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

Lord, help us to remember that we are only limited by all that you are.

Ian Thomas

Let all the earth fear the Lord: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.

Psalm 33:8
The King James Version

August 12, 2019 by This Day's Thought

This Day’s Thought-Monday

God bless all those that I love;
God bless all those that love me,
God bless all those that love those that I love
And all those that love those that love me.

From an old New England sampler

Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

2 Peter 1:2
The New International Version

To forgive heals the wound, to forget heals the scar.

Unknown

August 9, 2019 by This Day's Thought

This Day’s Thought-Friday

“Give us our daily bread” (not an annuity for life) applies to spiritual gifts too; the little daily support for the daily trial. Life has to be taken day by day and hour by hour.

C. S. Lewis

Since we have such a huge crowd of men of faith watching us from the grandstands, let us strip off anything that slows us down or holds us back, and especially those sins that wrap themselves so tightly around our feet and trip us up; and let us run with patience the particular race that God has set before us.

Hebrews 12:1
The Living Bible

What I gave, I have; what I spent, I had; what I kept, I lost.

Old epitaph

August 8, 2019 by This Day's Thought

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

One of the greatest mercies God bestows upon us is his not permitting our inclinations and opportunities to meet. Have you not sometimes noticed that, when you had the inclination to a sin there has been no opportunity, and when the opportunity has presented itself you have had no inclination towards it. Satan’s principal aim with believers is to bring their appetites and his temptations together; to get their souls into a dry, seared state, and then to strike the match and watch them burn.

Charles Spurgeon

And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.

Romans 8:28
The New King James Version

August 7, 2019 by This Day's Thought

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

It is the highest and holiest of the paradoxes that the man who really knows he cannot pay his debt will be forever paying it.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Now the Lord said to Moses, “Tell Aaron and his sons that they are to give this special blessing to the people of Israel: ‘May the Lord bless and protect you; may the Lord’s face radiate with joy because of you; may he be gracious to you, show you his favor, and give you his peace.’ Whenever Aaron and his sons bless the people of Israel in my name, I myself will bless them.”

Numbers 6:22-27
The New Living Translation

To be honest, to be kind—to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not to be embittered, to keep a few friends, but these without capitulation—above all, on the same grim condition, to keep friends with himself—here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy.

Robert Louis Stevenson

August 6, 2019 by This Day's Thought

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

There is no power like that of prevailing prayer—of Abraham pleading for Sodom, Jacob wrestling in the stillness of the night, Moses standing in the breach, Hannah intoxicated with sorrow, David heart-broken with remorse and grief, Jesus in sweat and blood. Add to this list from the records of the church your personal observation and experience, and always there is cost of passion unto blood. Such prayer prevails. It turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God.

Samuel Chadwick

But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth.

2 Thessalonians 2:13
The Revised Standard Version

August 5, 2019 by This Day's Thought

This Day’s Thought-Monday

Grant me a healthy body, and the necessary good humor to maintain it. Grant me a simple soul that knows to treasure all that is good and that doesn’t frighten easily at the sight of evil, but rather finds the means to put things back in their place.

Thomas More

Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.

Philippians 2:4
The New King James Version

Live to give.

Unknown

August 2, 2019 by This Day's Thought

This Day’s Thought-Friday

Life for the Christian is a dialogue with God.

J. H. Oldham

The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.

Proverbs 10:22
The King James Version

Every day is a messenger of God.

Russian proverb

August 1, 2019 by This Day's Thought

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues. There is no getting away from it: the Christian rule is, “Either marriage, with complete faithfulness to your partner, or else total abstinence.” Now this is so difficult and so contrary to our instincts, that obviously either Christianity is wrong or our sexual instinct, as it now is, has gone wrong. One or the other. Of course, being a Christian, I think it is the instinct which has gone wrong.

C. S. Lewis

When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. So he began teaching them many things.

Mark 6:34
The New International Version

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