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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

There are moments in life when we are given eyes to see as God sees. Surely one such moment is at the birth of a child. ‘And this will be a sign for you, you will find a child wrapped in bands of cloth and lying in a manger.’ Few stories have captured the human imagination as powerfully as Jesus’ birth. With a cast of characters that resonate across time and culture, it tells of God choosing to come among us as a child born on the margins of society, to parents reliant on the kindness of strangers. An angel appeared to the shepherds in the field and said, “Do not be afraid—I am bringing you good news of great joy for all people—The promise of Christmas is not for some people, the most deserving, or those who hold certain beliefs; not for one racial or ethnic group, or the citizens of one nation. The birth of Jesus is meant to be good news of great joy for all people, a sign that God will never give up on us, no matter what; that God’s desire is to be with us, as we are. Moreover, the Christmas story suggests that God is perfectly at home in less than ideal circumstances. But Jesus’ birth is more than a sign. He came to show us a way, God’s way toward the peace and goodwill we long for. It is the way of kindness and love, forgiveness and generosity. The truth is that God cannot create a world of peace and goodwill without us. Ours are the eyes through which God sees. Ours are the heart and the hands through which God responds to this world in love. This Christmas I pray that we all may see ourselves as God sees us, with eyes of love. And as we look with God’s eyes at suffering and grief that take no holiday, may we respond with that same love, doing our part to help realize the hope of Christmas for all people.

Mariann Edgar Budde

This Day's Verse

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; we have beheld his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father.

John 1:14
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.

W. T. Ellis

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

If we open our hearts and embrace Him, not only to reap abundance and joy and heath and happy fulfillment, but also for the cancellation of our sins—then this is the greatest welcome we can give to the Christ Child.

Norman Vincent Peale

This Day's Verse

For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Isaiah 9:6
The New King James Version

This Day's Reprise

Jesus…
He came not to a throne,
but to a manger.
He lived not as a king,
but as a servant.
He chose not an earthly kingdom,
but a cross.
He gave not just a little,
but everything.

Holley Gerth

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

I am Christmas.
I commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ.
I bring good news and good cheer to millions of people.
I demonstrate how God can incarnate Himself in a human being.
I am the birthday of the Christian faith.
I bring the message of peace on earth made possible by the Prince of Peace.
I honor lowliness of mind and purity of heart.
I put God definitely within the series of historic events.
I show how godliness may be subject to the law of growth and development.
I am celebrated most appropriately as a religious festival.
I call attention to the spiritual capacities of newly-born children.
I bring encouragement to those of lowly birth.
I place the wisdom and the holiness of God within man’s reach.
I identify religion with human experience enriched by God’s self-revelation.
I celebrate the beginning of a life in which God was made real and immediately approachable.

Norman E. Richardson

This Day's Verse

But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, are only a small village among all the people of Judah. Yet a ruler of Israel, whose origins are in the distant past, will come from you on my behalf.

Micah 5:2
The New Living Translation

This Day's Smile

Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.

Dale Evans Rogers

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

Christ exists in all things that are.

Gregory of Nazianzus

This Day's Verse

Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth. Worship the LORD with gladness; come into his presence with singing. Know that the LORD is God. It is he that made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

Psalm 100:1-3
The New Revised Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

As the sun makes ice melt; kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Albert Schweitzer

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

Language has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone, and the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone.

Paul Tillich

This Day's Verse

Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things. And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.

John 8:28-29
The King James Version

This Day's Reprise

If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven; you are a citizen of heaven making your way through this world.

Vance Havner

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

We have never made a better prayer than when, after having made it, we do not know how it was made, since that is a sure sign that our soul was so attached to God as not to have had enough attention left to reflect upon itself.

Père Hayneuve

This Day's Verse

Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

John 8:12
The King James Version

This Day's Smile

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

G. K. Chesterton

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

A Jesus-over-everything lifestyle is a Jesus-take-over-me-and-my-lifestyle so I don’t ruin my one precious life. But even more than that, it’s the understanding that the priority of Jesus brings order to the chaos of our lives, a job only God is big enough to do.

Lisa Whittle

This Day's Verse

And he sat down and called the twelve. And he said to them, “If anyone would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.”

Mark 9:35
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

Truth is the seal of God.

The Talmud

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

As God is exalted to the right place in our lives, a thousand problems are solved all at once.

A. W. Tozer

This Day's Verse

“For the Son of Man came to seek out and to save the lost.”

Luke 19:10
The New Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

The problem with Western Christians is not that they aren’t where they should be but that they aren’t what they should be where they are.

Os Guinness

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Christianity came into the world with the greatest simplicity of thought and language, as well as life and manners, holding forth nothing but piety, charity, and humility, with the belief of the Messiah and of his kingdom.

William Temple

This Day's Verse

Trust in the LORD with all your heart, And do not lean on your own understanding.

Proverbs 3:5
The New American Standard Bible

This Day's Smile

God does not pay weekly, but he pays at the end.

Dutch proverb

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

Whoever is a hypocrite in his religion mocks God, presenting to him the outside, and reserving the inward for his enemy.

Jeremy Taylor

This Day's Verse

But now you have been united with Christ Jesus. Once you were far away from God, but now you have been brought near to him through the blood of Christ.

Ephesians 2:13
The New Living Translation

This Day's Smile

Just to follow hour by hour
As He leadeth;
Just to draw the moment’s power
As it needeth.

F. R. Havergal

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