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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

The devil fears a soul in union with God as he fears God himself.

John of the Cross

This Day's Verse

But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day.

Proverbs 4:18
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

The audience was waiting for the brilliant pianist to come out onto the stage. Then, to everyone’s embarrassment, a little boy wandered up onto the stage and started banging out one harsh note on the Steinway. Suddenly, the maestro appeared in the wings and made his way over to the boy. Standing behind him as he banged away tunelessly, he began to weave a melody around the note, taking it up into his larger tune and transforming it into something beautiful. After a few moments, the maestro gently led the boy away from the piano, and together they took a bow to the audience’s applause. The little boy wandered back to his seat—not embarrassed, not having been made to look foolish. In the same way, Jesus can take the harsh, discordant, out-of-tune moments of our lives—perhaps a time of sexual sin, or of cowardice or defeat in some other way—and can weave his own purposes around them. As we let him do this, he transforms our mistakes and failures, bringing out of them something he can use for his glory.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

In an experience which often transcended all their powers of expression, the mystics realized God as an abiding Fact, a living Presence and Love, and by this their whole existence was transformed. And this happened to them, not because He loved and attended to them more than He does to us, but because they loved and attended to Him more than we do.

Evelyn Underhill

This Day's Verse

Thy word is a lamp to my feet, And a light to my path.

Psalm 119:105
The New American Standard Bible

This Day's Reprise

He preaches well who lives well. That’s all the divinity I know.

Miguel de Cervantes

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

No shelter can be imaged at all comparable to the protection of Jehovah’s own shadow. The Almighty himself is where his shadow is, and hence those who dwell in his secret place are shielded by himself.

Charles Spurgeon

This Day's Verse

If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

John 14:15-17
The King James Version

This Day's Smile

Much like our lives, which start out as a blank canvas, we face trials and tribulations along the journey…Through these experiences, whether joyful or difficult, God adds color and texture along our paths to create a beautiful masterpiece.

Anne Neilson

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

God does not help us by removing the tests, but by making the tests work for us.

Warren Wiersbe

This Day's Verse

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

2 Corinthians 13:14
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

A powerful story came out of World War II. It is about a little Jewish boy who was living in a small Polish village when Nazi troops rounded up him and all the other Jews in the vicinity and sentenced them to death. The boy joined his neighbours in digging a shallow ditch for their own graves. Then the soldiers lined them up against a wall and machine gunned them down. But none of the bullets hit the little boy. The blood of his parents splattered his naked body, and as he fell into the ditch he pretended to be dead. The grave was so shallow that the thin covering of dirt did not prevent him from breathing. Several hours later, when darkness fell, he clawed his way out of the grave. With blood and dirt caked to his little body, he made his way to the nearest house and begged for help. Recognizing him as one of the Jewish boys marked for death, he was turned away at house after house as people feared getting into trouble with the SS troops. Then something inside seemed to guide him to say something that was very strange for a Jewish boy to say. When the next family responded to his timid knocking in the still of the night, they heard him cry, “Don’t you recognize me? I am the Jesus you say you love.” After a poignant pause, the woman who stood in the doorway swept him into her arms and kissed him. From that day on, the members of that family cared for that boy as though he was one of their own.

Tony Campolo

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

I am certain that the Bible is the Word of God. Either it is or it isn’t, and either all of it is the Word of God, or we never can be sure of any of it. It is either absolute or obsolete. If we have to start changing this verse, toning down that, apologizing for this and making allowances for that, we might as well give up, so we must take it as it is or leave it alone.

Vance Havner

This Day's Verse

And the Lord’s servant must not quarrel; instead, he must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful.

2 Timothy 2:24
The New International Version

This Day's Reprise

You have made us for yourself and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.

Augustine

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

All along the Christian course, there must be set up altars to God on which you sacrifice yourself, or you will never advance a step.

Alexander Maclaren

This Day's Verse

Watch over your heart with all diligence, For from it flow the springs of life.

Proverbs 4:23
The New American Standard Bible

This Day's Smile

We are only fully alive when we’re helping others.

Rick Warren

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

“ME” is always at the bottom of all sin. One little word M-E. It may spell drink, lust, pride, covetousness, self-will; but it is some form of “me.”

Unknown

This Day's Verse

Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, And uphold me by Your generous Spirit.

Psalm 51:12
The New King James Version

This Day's Reprise

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shapes of pains, losses, and disappointments; but let us have patience, and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

Joseph Addison

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Meditation is like a needle after which comes a thread of gold, composed of affections, prayers and resolutions.

Alphonsus Liguori

This Day's Verse

Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.

James 4:10
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

The stars shine over the mountains, the stars shine over the sea.
The stars look up to the mighty God, the stars look down on me;
The stars shall last for a million years, a million years and a day.
But God and I will live and love when the stars have passed away.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.

Charles Swindoll

This Day's Verse

O Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our fathers, keep forever such purposes and thoughts in the hearts of your people, and direct their hearts toward you.

1 Chronicles 29:18
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

The Christian is not ruined by living in the world but by the world living in him.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

The amazing thing is that God follows us into the blackened ruins of our failed dreams, our misbegotten mirages, into the house of cards that has collapsed on us in some way and he speaks, not with the chastisement we feel we deserve, but of all things, with tenderness.

Paula Rinehart

This Day's Verse

So we know and believe the love God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

1 John 4:16
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

Too many of us have a Christian vocabulary rather than a Christian experience.

Charles F. Banning

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