December 11, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Friday

Man’s world has become a nervous one, encompassed by anxiety. God’s world is other than this; always balanced, calm, and in order.

Faith Baldwin

The king said to Daniel, “Truly, your God is God of gods and Lord of kings, and a revealer of mysteries, for you have been able to reveal this mystery.”

Daniel 2:47
The Revised Standard Version

Get rid of everything in your wardrobe that is not white. Stop sleeping on a soft pillow. Sell your musical instruments and stop eating white bread. You cannot take warm baths, or shave off your beard. To shave is to lie against Him who created us because it is an attempt to improve upon His work.

From a Second-Century Catechism

December 10, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

The least movement affects all nature; the entire sea changes because of a rock. Thus, in grace, the lead action affects everything by its consequences; therefore everything is important. In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

Blaise Pascal

God is not human, that he should lie, not a human being, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?

Numbers 23:19
The New International Version

December 9, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

I was living, like so many atheists or antitheists, in a whirl of contradictions. I maintained that God did not exist. I was also very angry with God for not existing. I was equally angry with him for creating a world.

C. S. Lewis

But now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.

Isaiah 43:1
The King James Version

An apology is saying the right thing after doing the wrong thing.

Unknown

December 8, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

Determine a plan of action in the morning, and then evaluate yourself at night. How have you behaved today? What were your words, your deeds, your thoughts?

Thomas a Kempis

You alone are the Lord; You have made heaven, The heaven of heavens, with all their host, The earth and everything on it, The seas and all that is in them, And You preserve them all. The host of heaven worships You.

Nehemiah 9:6
The New King James Version

December 7, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Monday

At any moment in life we have the option to choose an attitude of gratitude, a posture of grace, a commitment to joy.

Tim Hansel

Great is the Lord and most worthy of praise; his greatness no one can fathom.

Psalm 145:3
The New International Version

Behave toward everyone as if receiving a great guest.

Confucius

December 4, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Friday

It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

So do not throw away this confident trust in the Lord. Remember the great reward it brings you! Patient endurance is what you need now, so that you will continue to do God’s will. Then you will receive all that he has promised.

Hebrews 10:35-36
The New Living Translation

Words are like medicine; they should be measured with care for an overdose may hurt.

Jewish proverb

December 3, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

O Lord Jesus Christ, who has told us not to be anxious, we trust ourselves and our loved ones to thy loving care, knowing that round about and underneath are the everlasting arms, and praying thee to give us now and always that peace which the world cannot give, nor take away, but which comes only from the Father and from thee, our Savior and Friend.

Unknown

I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do all this through him who gives me strength.

Philippians 4:12-13
The New International Version

December 2, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

In our natural life our ambitions are our own. In the Christian life we have no aim of our own, and God’s aim looks like missing the mark because we are too shortsighted to see what he is aiming at.

Oswald Chambers

And I will lead the blind in a way that they do not know, in paths that they have not known I will guide them. I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places into level ground. These are the things I do, and I do not forsake them.

Isaiah 42:16
The English Standard Version

Anger is a weed; hate is the tree.

Augustine

December 1, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust in his skill and thank him for his prescription.

John Newton

How precious to me are thy thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!

Psalm 139:17
The Revised Standard Version

November 30, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Monday

To suppose that God could not care for each of us because there are so many people in the world is to place upon him human limitations; but, let us remember, he is God, not man! If he knows our need and seeks to help us, we do not have to give him information, but we do need through prayer to place ourselves in an attitude to be helped.

Georgia Harkness

He who comes from above is above all; he who is of the earth is earthly and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.

John 3:31
The New King James Version

To God we use the simplest, shortest words we can find because eloquence is only air and noise to him.

Frederick William Robertson

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