Kindness, Compassion & Service

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

Jesus teaches that human need must always be helped; that there is no greater task than to relieve someone’s pain and distress and that the Christian’s compassion must be like God’s—unceasing. Other work may be laid aside but the work of compassion never.

William Barclay

This Day's Verse

“Teach me, and I will be silent; make me understand how I have gone astray.”

Job 6:24
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

It doesn’t take such a great man to be a Christian; it just takes all there is of him.

Seth Wilson

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

The Christian who is careless in Bible reading will be careless in Christian living.

Max I. Reich

This Day's Verse

We ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love all of you have for one another is increasing.

2 Thessalonians 1:3
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

Love’s secret is to be always doing things for God, and not to mind because they are such very little ones.

F. W. Faber

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.

John Bunyan

This Day's Verse

As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

1 Peter 4:10-11
The New King James Version

This Day's Reprise

Much of what is sacred is hidden in the ordinary, everyday moments of our lives. To see something of the sacred in those moments takes slowing down so we can live our lives more reflectively.

Ken Gire

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

Rest in the Lord; wait patiently for Him. In Hebrew, “Be silent in God, and let Him mould thee.” Keep still, and He will mould thee to the right shape.

Martin Luther

This Day's Verse

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 15:58
The New American Standard Bible

This Day's Reprise

To feel sorry for the needy is not the mark of a Christian—to help them is.

Fred Clark

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Happy persons seldom think of happiness. They are too busy losing their lives in the meaningful sacrifices of service.

David Augsburger

This Day's Verse

I am your servant; give me discernment that I may understand your statutes.

Psalm 119:125
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

As rare as true love is, true friendship is still rarer.

François de La Rochefoucauld

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

We learn that faith isn’t proven in the comfort of stability but in the disruptions that follow it. Every setback, every loss, every unexpected turn becomes another reminder that God’s plan is far deeper than our understanding. And yet, through it all, we keep moving forward—trusting that the same God who carried us through the chaos before will meet us again in whatever lies ahead.

Timothy Graumann

This Day's Verse

He answered and said to them, “He who has two tunics, let him give to him who has none; and he who has food, let him do likewise.”

Luke 3:11
The New King James Version

This Day's Reprise

It is impossible to be too preoccupied with God, and it is only as we fill our hearts and minds with him that we become melted out of our likeness and moulded into his.

John Blanchard

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

Moderation is the silken-string running through the pearl-chain of all virtues.

Thomas Fuller

This Day's Verse

And with that he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit.”

John 20:22
The New International Version

This Day's Reprise

If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.

Chinese proverb

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth doing is what we do for others.

Lewis Carroll

This Day's Verse

Let these words of mine, with which I have pleaded before the Lord, be near to the Lord our God day and night, and may he maintain the cause of his servant and the cause of his people Israel, as each day requires, that all the peoples of the earth may know that the Lord is God; there is no other. Let your heart therefore be wholly true to the Lord our God, walking in his statutes and keeping his commandments, as at this day.

1 Kings 8:59-61
The English Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

One thing we may be sure of: For the believer all pain has meaning; all adversity is profitable. There is no question that adversity is difficult. It usually takes us by surprise and seems to strike where we are most vulnerable. To us it often appears completely senseless and irrational, but to God none of it is either senseless or irrational. He has a purpose in every pain He brings or allows in our lives. We can be sure that in some way He intends it for our profit and His glory.

Jerry Bridges

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

The rich man is not one who is in possession of much, but one who gives much.

John Chrysostom

This Day's Verse

“Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, And whose hope is the Lord. For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, Which spreads out its roots by the river, And will not fear when heat comes; But its leaf will be green, And will not be anxious in the year of drought, Nor will cease from yielding fruit.”

Jeremiah 17:7-8
The New King James Version

This Day's Reprise

If you want to live twice as long, eat half as much, sleep twice as much, drink water three times as much, and laugh four times at much.

John H. Cable

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.

Fred Rogers

This Day's Verse

Jesus answered and said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”

Luke 5:31-32
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

The soul of man is the lamp of God.

Unknown

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