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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

When Jesus Christ utters a word, He opens His mouth so wide that it embraces all heaven and earth, even though that Word be but in a whisper. The word of the emperor is powerful, but that of Jesus Christ governs the whole universe.

Martin Luther

This Day's Verse

“Do not be afraid,” Samuel replied. “You have done all this evil; yet do not turn away from the Lord, but serve the Lord with all your heart. Do not turn away after useless idols. They can do you no good, nor can they rescue you, because they are useless. For the sake of his great name the Lord will not reject his people, because the Lord was pleased to make you his own. As for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by failing to pray for you. And I will teach you the way that is good and right. But be sure to fear the Lord and serve him faithfully with all your heart; consider what great things he has done for you. Yet if you persist in doing evil, both you and your king will perish.”

1 Samuel 12:20-25
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

Happiness grows at your own fireside, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

It is the powerful love of Christ which kills the love of sin, and kindles the love of holiness in the soul.

Robert Leighton

This Day's Verse

Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O LORD, according unto thy word.

Psalm 119:65
The King James Version

This Day's Smile

The appearance of religion only on Sunday proves that it is only an appearance.

John Adams

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

When Christ is not known it is impossible to have any understanding in Scripture.

Martin Luther

This Day's Verse

For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. For one who has died has been set free from sin. Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Romans 6:5-11
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

God cannot endure that unfestive, mirthless attitude of ours in which we eat our bread in sorrow, with pretentious, busy haste, or even with shame. Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God; and this can be done only by means of the acknowledgment and profession of the truth by each one of us.

Leo Tolstoy

This Day's Verse

You will again have compassion on us; you will tread our sins underfoot and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea.

Micah 7:19
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

The true measure of loving God is to love Him without measure.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

If Christ comes to rule in the hearts of men, it will be because we take Him with us on the tractor, behind the desk, when we’re making a sale to a customer, or when we’re driving on the road.

Alexander Nunn

This Day's Verse

Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness’ sake, O LORD.

Psalm 25:7
The King James Version

This Day's Reprise

Contentment comes when we remember that what God chooses is far better than what we choose.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Humility is the only response we should have towards a God who has given everything for our sake.

John Calvin

This Day's Verse

Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

James 4:17
The King James Version

This Day's Smile

J. Hudson Taylor, visiting D. L. Moody in Chicago, was invited to preach at Moody’s church.  At end of service Moody announced they were going to take an offering and Hudson Taylor, who was the guest speaker, came onstage and said. “No, we have a non-solicitation policy.”  Moody thought he was crazy.  Lo and behold the next day a man brings Taylor a check for $5000 and tells him, “If I gave yesterday at church I would have only given you $5.”  We live in a world where we are probably overly dependent on our human efforts to do God’s work, whereas we are called to a simple faith.

James Hudson Taylor IV

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

No sin is small.  It is against an infinite God, and may have consequences immeasurable.

Jeremy Taylor

This Day's Verse

Oh, how great are God’s riches and wisdom and knowledge!  How impossible it is for us to understand his decisions and his ways!

Romans 11:33
The New Living Translation

This Day's Smile

It’s a terrible day.  Thanks be to God!

John Doyle

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

My faith hath no bed to sleep upon but omnipotency.

Samuel Rutherford

This Day's Verse

How can I know all the sins lurking in my heart?  Cleanse me from these hidden faults.

Psalm 19:12
The New Living Translation

This Day's Reprise

Joy is not gush; joy is not jolliness.  Joy is just perfect acquiescence in God’s will because the soul delights itself in God Himself.

Hanmer William Webb-Peploe

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

The dominion of any sinful habit will fearfully estrange us from His presence.  A single consenting act of inward disobedience in thought or will is enough to let fall a cloud between Him and us, and to leave our hearts cheerless and dark.

Henry E. Manning

This Day's Verse

O Lord, be gracious to us; we wait for thee.  Be our arm every morning, our salvation in the time of trouble.

Isaiah 33:2
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

The life of the church is not without a resurrection, nay, it is not without many resurrections.

John Calvin

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