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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

Do not call yourself Lutherans, call yourself Christians. Has Luther been crucified for the world?

Martin Luther

This Day's Verse

Human pride will be brought down, and human arrogance will be humbled. Only the Lord will be exalted on that day of judgment.

Isaiah 2:11
The New Living Translation

This Day's Smile

A farmer promised to give the Lord one of the twin calves his cow delivered. His wife asked him, “which calf is the Lord’s?” He answered, “It really doesn’t make any difference whose calf is whose. I’ll give God one of them when they’ve grown.” A few weeks later he came into the farmhouse, sadness hanging on his face. His wife asked, “What’s wrong?” He replied, “Well, the Lord’s calf died this morning.

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

I learned the interior of life was as rewarding as the exterior life, and that my richest moments occurred when I was absolutely still.

Richard Bode

This Day's Verse

“In all this I have given you an example that by such work we must support the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, for he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

Acts 20:35
The New Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

God knows no distance.

Charleszetta Waddles

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

Sympathy is especially a Christian duty.

Charles H. Spurgeon

This Day's Verse

“This is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God. Those along the path are the ones who hear, and then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved. Those on the rocky ground are the ones who receive the word with joy when they hear it, but they have no root. They believe for a while, but in the time of testing they fall away. The seed that fell among thorns stands for those who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by life’s worries, riches and pleasures, and they do not mature. But the seed on good soil stands for those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, retain it, and by persevering produce a crop.”

Luke 8:11-15
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

A wise man should have money in his head; but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

As to all that we have and are, we are but stewards of the Most High God. On all our possessions, on our time, and talents, and influence, and property, he has written, “Occupy for me, and till I shall come.” To obey his instructions and serve him faithfully, is the true test of obedience and discipleship.

Charles Simmons

This Day's Verse

But avoid worldly and empty chatter, for it will lead to further ungodliness,

2 Timothy 2:16
The New American Standard Bible

This Day's Smile

Temperance is to the body what religion is to the soul—the foundation of health, strength and peace.

Tryon Edwards

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

Sin is like some distempers of the eyes that make things to appear of different colours from those which properly belong to them.

Jonathan Edwards

This Day's Verse

“No slave can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.”

Luke 16:13
The New Revised Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

There’s not much practical Christianity in the man who lives on better terms with angels and seraphs than with his children, servants and neighbours.

Henry Ward Beecher

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

If you neglect your love to your neighbor, in vain you profess your love to God; for by your love to God, the love to your neighbor is begotten, and by the love to your neighbor, your love to God is nourished.

Francis Quarles

This Day's Verse

You shall give to him freely, and your heart shall not be grudging when you give to him; because for this the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake.

Deuteronomy 15:10
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

One day a lady criticized D. L. Moody for his methods of evangelism in attempting to win people to the Lord.  Moody’s reply was “I agree with you.  I don’t like the way I do it either.  Tell me, how do you do it?”  The lady replied, “I don’t do it.”  Moody retorted, “Then I like my way of doing it better than your way of not doing it.”

D. L. Moody

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

He has kept and folded us from ten thousand ills when we did not know it.  In the midst of our security we should have perished every hour, but He sheltered us ‘from the terror by night and from the arrow that flieth by day’ —from the powers of evil that walk in darkness, and from snares of our own evil will.  He has kept us even against ourselves, and saved us even from our own undoing.  Let us read the traces of His hand in all our ways, in all the events, the chances, the changes of this troubled state.  It is He that folds and feeds us, that makes us to go in and out, to be faint or to find pasture, to lie down by the still waters, or to walk by the way that is parched and desert.

Henry E. Manning

This Day's Verse

Keep your lives free from the love of money, and be content with what you have; for he has said, “I will never leave you or forsake you.”

Hebrews 13:5
The New Revised Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, “shake well before using.”  That is what God has to do with some of His people.  He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Vance Havner

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