March 5, 2019 by This Day's Thought

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

Every moment and every event of every man’s life on earth plants something in his soul. For just as the wind carries thousands of winged seeds, so each moment brings with it germs of spiritual vitality that come to rest imperceptibly in the minds and wills of men.

Thomas Merton

The promise to Abraham and his descendants, that they should inherit the world, did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.

Romans 4:13
The Revised Standard Version

March 4, 2019 by This Day's Thought

This Day’s Thought-Monday

May God send you
enough joy
to keep your hearts singing,
enough sorrow
to make you understanding,
enough hope to enrich your lives,
enough trials to keep you strong,
enough leisure
to refresh your spirits,
enough love
to make the world seem beautiful.

Dina Donohue

Love and faithfulness meet together; righteousness and peace kiss each other.

Psalm 85:10
The New International Version

This day someone with a burden can be helped by a letter from me.

Evelyn Mathews

March 1, 2019 by This Day's Thought

This Day’s Thought-Friday: George Macdonald…

There is a communion with God that asks for nothing, yet asks for everything…He who seeks the Father more than anything He can give, is likely to have what he asks, for he is not likely to ask amiss.

George Macdonald

“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.”

John 15:12
The English Standard Version

No one gets into heaven without a reservation.

Church sign

February 28, 2019 by This Day's Thought

This Day’s Thought-Thursday: Love is the spark…

Love is the spark that kindles the fire of compassion. Compassion is the fire that flames the candle of service. Service is the candle that ignites the torch of hope. Hope is the torch that lights the beacon of faith. Faith is the beacon that reflects the power of God. God is the power that creates the miracle of love.

William A. Ward

And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:38-39
The New Living Translation

February 27, 2019 by This Day's Thought

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday: Samuel Rutherford…

Believe under a cloud, and wait for Him when there is no moonlight or starlight.

Samuel Rutherford

The fear of man lays a snare, but he who trusts in the Lord is safe.

Proverbs 29:25
The Revised Standard Version

You don’t have to attend every argument you’re invited to.

Unknown

February 26, 2019 by This Day's Thought

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday: Dietrich Bonhoeffer…

Do not desire to be strong, powerful, honoured and respected; but let God alone be your strength, your fame, your honour.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

Romans 1:16
The King James Version

February 25, 2019 by This Day's Thought

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All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired, although not in the hour or in the measure, or the very thing which they ask; yet they will obtain something greater and more glorious than they had dared to ask.

Martin Luther

I spread out my hands to you; my soul thirsts for you like a parched land. Selah

Psalm 143:6
The New International Version

A smile is the light in the window of your face that tells people you’re at home.

Unknown

February 22, 2019 by This Day's Thought

This Day’s Thought-Friday: Bob Turnbull…

“Sin” is a seldom-used word today. But whether the word turns us on or off doesn’t matter; it does not alter the truth, whatever we think. If my hangups and negatives are called “sin” by our Lord, then sin it is.

Bob Turnbull

Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.

3 John 1:2
The New King James Version

The way of this world is to praise dead saints and persecute living ones.

Nathaniel Howe

February 21, 2019 by This Day's Thought

This Day’s Thought-Thursday: John Newton…

The religion of some people is constrained, like the cold bath when used, not for pleasure, but from necessity for health, into which one goes with reluctance and is glad when able to get out. But religion to the true believer is like water to a fish; it is his element; he lives in it and could not live out of it.

John Newton

And he said to them, “Take nothing for your journey, no staff, nor bag, nor bread, nor money; and do not have two tunics.”

Luke 9:3
The Revised Standard Version

February 20, 2019 by This Day's Thought

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday: Alfred Edersheim…

For God to explain a trial would be to destroy its object, which is that of calling forth simple faith and implicit obedience.

Alfred Edersheim

But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he said to the man who was paralyzed—“I say to you, rise, pick up your bed and go home.”

Luke 5:24
The English Standard Version

Man’s problem rises from the fact that he has not only lost the way, but he has lost the address.

Nicolas Berdyaev

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