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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Discernment in its fullness takes a practiced heart, fine-tuned to hear the word of God and the single-mindedness to follow that word in love.  It is truly a gift from God, but not one dropped from the skies fully formed.  It is a gift cultivated by a prayerful life and the search for self-knowledge.

Ernest Larkin

This Day's Verse

“If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath and from doing as you please on my holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight and the Lord’s holy day honorable, and if you honor it by not going your own way and not doing as you please or speaking idle words, then you will find your joy in the Lord, and I will cause you to ride in triumph on the heights of the land and to feast on the inheritance of your father Jacob.”  For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.

Isaiah 58:13-14
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

Laughter is carbonated holiness.

Anne Lamott

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

It can be easy for us to get discouraged with a no, but if we trust that God is directing our path, then we won’t receive it as a rejection but as a redirection.

Deb Hopper

This Day's Verse

Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;

Ephesians 5:20
The King James Version

This Day's Smile

I rest beneath the Almighty’s shade,
My griefs expire, my troubles cease;
Thou, Lord, on whom my soul is stayed,
Wilt keep me still in perfect peace.

Charles Wesley

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

The whole history of the Christian life is a series of resurrections.  Every time a man finds his heart is troubled, that he is not rejoicing in God, a resurrection must follow; a resurrection out of the night of troubled thought into the gladness of the truth.

George MacDonald

This Day's Verse

Be still in the presence of the Lord, and wait patiently for him to act.

Psalm 37:7
The New Living Translation

This Day's Reprise

A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said wouldn’t be a great moral teacher.  He’d be either a lunatic—on a level with a man who says he’s a poached egg—or else he’d be the devil of hell.  You must make your choice.  Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse.  You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God.  But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher.  He hasn’t left that open to us.  He didn’t intend to.

C. S. Lewis

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

Guide me, O Lord, in all the changes and varieties of the world; that in all things that shall happen, I may have an evenness and tranquility of spirit; that my soul may be wholly resigned to Thy divine will and pleasure, never murmuring at Thy gentle chastisements and fatherly correction.  Amen.

Jeremy Taylor

This Day's Verse

“But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

Joshua 24:15
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

Faith furnishes prayer with wings, without which it cannot soar to Heaven.

John Climacus

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

The crosses which we make for ourselves by a restless anxiety as to the future, are not crosses which come from God.  We show want of faith in Him by our false wisdom, wishing to forestall His arrangements, and struggling to supplement His Providence by our own providence.  The future is not yet ours; perhaps it never will be.  If it comes, it may come wholly different from what we have foreseen.  Let us shut our eyes, then, to that which God hides from us, and keeps in reserve in the treasures of His deep counsels.  Let us worship without seeing; let us be silent; let us abide in peace.

François Fénelon

This Day's Verse

The beloved of the Lord shall dwell in safety by him; and the Lord shall cover him all the day long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders.

Deuteronomy 33:12
The King James Version

This Day's Reprise

If a bird is flying for pleasure, it flies with the wind, but if it meets danger it turns and faces the wind, in order that it may rise higher.

Corrie ten Boom

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

In this world we taste but the beginning of Christ’s kingdom.

John Calvin

This Day's Verse

Though you have not seen him, you love him.  Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

1 Peter 1:8-9
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

Are you a happy Christian or a sad Christian?
Are you a brave Christian or a fearful Christian?
Are you a calm Christian or a worrying Christian?
Are you a content Christian or a dissatisfied Christian?
Are you a peaceful Christian or a troubled Christian?
Are you a witnessing Christian or a silent Christian?
Are you a praying Christian or a lost Christian?

R. R. Ball

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

We tend to misunderstand the link between joy and gratefulness.  We notice that joyful people are grateful and suppose that they are grateful for their joy.  But the reverse is true: Their joy springs from gratefulness.

David Steindl-Rast

This Day's Verse

For only we who believe God can enter into his place of rest.

Hebrews 4:3
The Living Bible

This Day's Smile

Nothing is too little to be ordered by our Father; nothing too little in which to see His hand; nothing, which touches our souls, too little to accept from Him; nothing too little to be done to Him.

E. B. Pusey

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

Give up yourself to God without reserve; in singleness of heart, meeting everything that every day brings forth, as something that comes from God, and is to be received and gone through by you, in such an heavenly use of it, as you would suppose the holy Jesus would have done, in such occurrences.  This is an attainable degree of perfection.

William Law

This Day's Verse

Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee.

Psalm 116:7
The King James Version

This Day's Reprise

Faith is simply taking God at His word.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

Resign every forbidden joy; restrain every wish that is not referred to His will; banish all eager desires, all anxiety.  Desire only the will of God; seek Him alone, and you will find peace.

François Fénelon

This Day's Verse

If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.

James 2:8
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

Worry is the warning light that God has been shoved to the sideline.

Rick Warren

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

There is another kind of silence to be cultivated, besides that of the tongue as regards others.  I mean silence as regards one’s self—restraining the imagination, not permitting it to dwell overmuch on what we have heard or said, not indulging in daydreaming, whether of the past or future.  Be sure that you have made no small progress in the spiritual life, when you can control your imagination, so as to fix it on the duty and occupation actually existing, to the exclusion of the crowd of thoughts which are perpetually sweeping across the mind.  No doubt, you cannot prevent those thoughts from arising, but you can prevent yourself from dwelling on them; you can put them aside, you can check the self-complacency, or irritation, or earthly belongings which feed them, and by the practice of such control of your thoughts you will attain that spirit of inward silence which draws the soul into a close fellowship with God.

Jean N. Grou

This Day's Verse

“Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation.  The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Matthew 26:41
The New International Version

This Day's Reprise

The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the Unabridged Dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing factory.

Edwin Conklin

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