September 22, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

Religion is not ours till we live by it, till it is the religion of our thoughts, words, and actions, till it goes with us into every place, sits uppermost on every occasion, and forms and governs our hopes and fears, our cares and pleasures.

William Law

Every good endowment and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

James 1:17
The Revised Standard Version

September 21, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Monday

Work with all your might, but never trust in your work. Pray with all your might for the blessing in God, but work at the same time with all diligence, with all patience, with all perseverance. Pray, then, and work. Work and pray. And still again pray, and then work.

George Muller

Give unto the Lord the glory due to His name; Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.

Psalm 29:2
The New King James Version

They might not need me; but they might.
I’ll let my head be just in sight;
A smile as small as mine might be
Precisely their necessity.

Emily Dickinson

September 18, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Friday

True wisdom is gazing at God. Gazing at God is silence of the thoughts.

Isaac the Syrian

For God is not a God of confusion but of peace.

1 Corinthians 14:33
The English Standard Version

There is no gain except by loss;
There is no life except by death;
There is no vision but by faith.

Walter Chalmers Smith

September 17, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

You are ever active, yet always at rest.
You gather all things to yourself, though you suffer no need.
You grieve for wrong, but suffer no pain.
You can be angry and yet serene.
Your works are varied, but your purpose is one and the same.
You welcome those who come to you, though you never lost them.
You are never in need yet are glad to gain, never covetous yet you exact a return for your gifts.
You release us from our debts, but you lose nothing thereby.
You are my God, my Life, my holy Delight, but is this enough to say of you?
Can any man say enough when he speaks of you?
Yet woe betide those who are silent about you!

Augustine

“Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!”

Revelation 4:8
The Revised Standard Version

September 16, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

There is great joy in learning now about the God with whom we will spend eternity.

JoNancy Linn Sundberg

The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

2 Corinthians 9:6-7
The English Standard Version

We grow by subtraction.

Meister Eckhart

September 15, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

Once as I rode out into the woods for my health, in 1737, having alighted from my horse in a retired place, as my manner commonly had been to walk for divine contemplation and prayer, I had a view that for me was extraordinary, of the glory of the Son of God. As near as I can judge, this continued about an hour; and kept me the greater part of the time in a flood of tears and weeping aloud. I felt an ardency of soul to be what I know not otherwise how to express, emptied and annihilated; to love Him with a pure and holy love; to serve and follow Him; to be perfectly sanctified and made pure with a divine and heavenly purity.

Jonathan Edwards

You have also given me the shield of Your salvation; Your right hand has held me up, Your gentleness has made me great. You enlarged my path under me, So my feet did not slip.

Psalm 18:35-36
The New King James Version

September 14, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Monday

All our difficulties are only platforms for the manifestation of His grace, power and love.

Hudson Taylor

No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known.

John 1:18
The New International Version

A Christian’s life is the world’s Bible.

Unknown

September 11, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Friday

Ye have lost a child—nay, she is not lost to you, who is found to Christ; she is not sent away, but sent before; like unto a star, which going out of our sight, doth not die and vanish, but shineth in another atmosphere.

Samuel Rutherford

My son, give attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings. Do not let them depart from your eyes; Keep them in the midst of your heart; For they are life to those who find them, And health to all their flesh.

Proverbs 4:20-22
The New King James Version

Perpetual springtime is not allowed.

C. S. Lewis

September 10, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

Mother Teresa

This is what the Lord says: “Let not the wise boast of their wisdom or the strong boast of their strength or the rich boast of their riches, but let the one who boasts boast about this: that they have the understanding to know me, that I am the Lord, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight,” declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:23-24
The New International Version

September 9, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

We are building lives with an eternal purpose in mind.

Charles Stanley

“For the Lord your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.”

2 Chronicles 30:9
The Revised Standard Version

It is solved by walking.

Augustine

This Day's Thought

A Christian-inspired seed for the day!

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday