September 27, 2019 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Friday

The world is full of discouragers. We have a Christian duty to encourage one another. Many a time a word of praise or thanks or appreciation or cheer has kept a man on his feet. Blessed is the man who speaks such a word.

William Barclay

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.

Romans 8:18
The English Standard Version

The world wants your best. God wants your all.

Unknown

September 26, 2019 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

We are, not metaphorically but in very truth, a Divine work of art, something that God is making, and therefore something with which He will not be satisfied until it has a certain character. It is natural for us to wish that God had designed for us a less glorious and less arduous destiny; but then we are wishing not for more love but for less.

C. S. Lewis

Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and shrewd in their own sight!

Isaiah 5:21
The Revised Standard Version

September 25, 2019 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

To see God in everything makes life the greatest adventure there is.

Unknown

“In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”

Luke 15:10
The New International Version

The happiest heart that ever beat
Was in some quiet breast
That found the common daylight sweet
And left to Heaven the rest.

John Vance Cheney

September 24, 2019 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

He who consciously or unconsciously has chosen to ignore God is an orphan in the universe.

Emile Cailliet

Pride ends in humiliation, while humility brings honor.

Proverbs 29:23
The New Living Translation

September 23, 2019 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Monday

Doing God’s will is never hard. The only thing that is hard is not doing His will.

Oswald Chambers

the LORD gives sight to the blind, the LORD lifts up those who are bowed down, the LORD loves the righteous.

Psalm 146:8
The New International Version

A miracle is a wonder, a beam of supernatural power injected into history. It makes an opening in the wall that separates this world and another.

TIME Magazine (1991)

September 20, 2019 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Friday

Joy is the settled assurance that God is in control of all the details of my life, the quiet confidence that ultimately everything is going to be all right, and the determined choice to praise God in all things.

Kay Warren

And I pray that Christ will be more and more at home in your hearts, living within you as you trust in him. May your roots go down deep into the soil of God’s marvelous love; and may you be able to feel and understand, as all God’s children should, how long, how wide, how deep, and how high his love really is; and to experience this love for yourselves, though it is so great that you will never see the end of it or fully know or understand it. And so at last you will be filled up with God himself.

Ephesians 3:17-19
The Living Bible

He walks with me and He talks with me,
And He tells me I am His own…

In the Garden

September 19, 2019 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

Death is simply putting out a candle because morning has come.

Unknown

saying, “Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God for ever and ever! Amen.”

Revelation 7:12
The Revised Standard Version

September 18, 2019 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help him.

James Hudson Taylor

For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men,

Titus 2:11
The New King James Version

I asked for words!
Life led me to a wood,
Set me in solitude
Where speech is still and
Wisdom comes by prayer.

Chester B. Emerson

September 17, 2019 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

I am a creature of God, and he has an undoubted right to do with me as seemeth good in his sight. I rejoice that I am in his hand—that he is everywhere present and can protect me in one place as well as in another.

Ann Hasseltine Judson

And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.

Jeremiah 29:13
The King James Version

September 16, 2019 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Monday

Life can be counted on to provide all the pain that any of us might need.

Sheldon Kopp

the Lord opens the eyes of the blind. The Lord lifts up those who are bowed down; the Lord loves the righteous.

Psalm 146:8
The English Standard Version

May all your expectations be frustrated. May all your plans be thwarted. May all of your desires be withered into nothingness, that you may experience the powerlessness and poverty of a child and sing and dance in the love of God the Father, the Son and the Spirit.

Blessing given to Henri Nouwen by his spiritual mentor

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