January 31, 2023 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

I do not ask, Oh Lord,
A life all free from pain;
I do not seek to be
In this vast world of need
Without my load of care.
For this I know, the cross
Is my eternal gain,
And he who struggles on
At last shall enter in,
And be victorious there.
So, Lord, just keep me fit within,
And give me strength to fight,
And I will follow through the din,
From darkness up to light.

Daniel A. Poling

Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.

Psalm 27:14
The New International Version

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in; aim at earth and you will get neither.

C. S. Lewis

January 30, 2023 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Monday

Is life not full of opportunities for learning love? Every man and woman every day has a thousand of them. The world is not a playground; it is a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday, but an education. And the one eternal lesson for us all is how better we can love. What makes a man a good artist, a good sculptor, a good musician? Practice. What makes a man a good man? Practice. Love is not a thing of enthusiastic emotion. It is a rich, strong, manly, vigorous expression of the whole Christian character—the Christlike nature in its fullest development. And the constituents of this great character are only to be built up by ceaseless practice.

Henry Drummond

Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:

Job 11:16
The King James Version

Man without God is a seed upon the wind.

Unknown

January 27, 2023 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Friday

Religion is the direction of the mind toward what is conceived to be the highest truth,
of the will toward the highest duty, the chief thing to be done,
and of the heart toward the highest beauty, the most complete harmony and satisfaction.

Unknown

“I tell you the truth, anyone who believes in me will do the same works I have done, and even greater works, because I am going to be with the Father. You can ask for anything in my name, and I will do it, so that the Son can bring glory to the Father. Yes, ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it!”

John 14:12-14
The New Living Translation

God is with us in the evening,
and in the morning,
and in each new day.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

January 26, 2023 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

Prayer is, after all, a very dangerous business. For all the benefits it offers of growing closer to God, it carries with it one great element of risk: the possibility of change. In prayer we open ourselves to the change that God will do something with us that we had not intended.

Unknown

And Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Acts 2:38
The Revised Standard Version

Thou hast made us for Thyself, and the heart of man is restless until it finds its rest in Thee.

Augustine

January 25, 2023 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

By blood, I am Albanian. By citizenship, an Indian. By faith, I am a Catholic nun. As to my calling, I belong to the world. As to my heart, I belong entirely to the heart of Jesus.

Mother Teresa

Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;

1 Peter 1:22-23
The English Standard Version

Lord, the newness of this day
Calls me to an untried way:
Let me gladly take the road,
Give me strength to bear my load,
Thou my guide and helper be—
I will travel through with Thee.

Henry van Dyke

January 24, 2023 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

The faith that saves is the total response of the whole self to the will of God. It is the response of the mind in belief, the heart in trust, the will in conduct. It is to accept the fact that God goes all out for us, and then to be willing to go all out for God.

John A. Redhead

Let my mouth be filled with Your praise And with Your glory all the day.

Psalm 71:8
The New King James Version

Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence or learning.

Frederick Faber

January 23, 2023 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Monday

Christianity is either relevant all the time or useless anytime. It is not just a phase of life; it is life itself.

Richard Halverson

About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken. At once all the prison doors flew open, and everyone’s chains came loose.

Acts 16:25-26
The New International Version

That infamous story is told of a mother that was attempting to get her son up on a Sunday morning to go to church. Unable to make him get out of bed, she asked him why he did not want to go to church. “I’ll tell you why,” he said, “the choir sings off key, the congregation doesn’t know the hymns, and the people are unfriendly. Now you tell me two reasons why I should get up and go.” “I will,” said the mother. “In the first place you are thirty-five years of age and in the second place you’re the minister.”

Unknown

January 20, 2023 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Friday

I see no business in life but the work of Christ.

Henry Martyn

O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph.

Psalm 47:1
The King James Version

There are two types of people in the world: those who gather and those who give. And every man must decide which he will be.

Unknown

January 19, 2023 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

We should submit our reason to the truths of faith with the humility and simplicity of a child.

Alphonsus Liguori

“Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.”

Joshua 1:8
The New International Version

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

C. H. Spurgeon

January 18, 2023 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God, that they may enter into Him, that they may delight in His Presence, may taste and know the inner sweetness of the very God Himself in the core and center of their hearts.

A. W. Tozer

“He who receives you receives Me, and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me. He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet’s reward. And he who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man’s reward. And whoever gives one of these little ones only a cup of cold water in the name of a disciple, assuredly, I say to you, he shall by no means lose his reward.”

Matthew 10:40-42
The New King James Version

When God gives you a gift, don’t keep it in the package.

John M. Cline

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