April 9, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

The Cross is the way; the Resurrection the goal. The Cross is of time; the Resurrection for eternity. And the Cross itself is primarily not the suffering of death, but the victorious struggle of Life over and through death.

E. I. Watkin

By this time it was about noon, and darkness fell across the whole land until three o’clock. The light from the sun was gone. And suddenly, the curtain in the sanctuary of the Temple was torn down the middle. Then Jesus shouted, “Father, I entrust my spirit into your hands!” And with those words he breathed his last.

Luke 23:44-46
The New Living Translation

April 8, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

Today one grave is open, and from it has risen a sun which will never be obscured, which will never set, a sun which creates new life. This new sun is the Crucified One, the Son of God.

John Vianney

Would you like me to release to you this ‘King of the Jews’?” Pilate asked (For he realized by now that the leading priests had arrested Jesus out of envy.) But at this point the leading priests stirred up the crowd to demand the release of Barabbas instead of Jesus. Pilate asked them, “Then what should I do with this man you call the king of the Jews?” They shouted back, “Crucify him!” “Why?” Pilate demanded. “What crime has he committed?” But the mob roared even louder, “Crucify him!” So to pacify the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas to them. He ordered Jesus flogged with a lead-tipped whip, then turned him over to the Roman soldiers to be crucified.

Mark 15:9-15
The New Living Translation

We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.

Unknown

April 7, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

But because he was once emptied I am each day refilled;
My spirit-arteries pulse with the vital red of love;
Poured out, it is his life that now pumps through my own heart’s core.
He bled, and died, and I have been transfused.

Luci Shaw

When he had finished praying, Jesus left with his disciples and crossed the Kidron Valley. On the other side there was a garden, and he and his disciples went into it. Now Judas, who betrayed him, knew the place, because Jesus had often met there with his disciples. So Judas came to the garden, guiding a detachment of soldiers and some officials from the chief priests and the Pharisees. They were carrying torches, lanterns and weapons. Jesus, knowing all that was going to happen to him, went out and asked them, “Who is it you want?” “Jesus of Nazareth,” they replied. “I am he,” Jesus said. (And Judas the traitor was standing there with them.) When Jesus said, “I am he,” they drew back and fell to the ground. Again he asked them, “Who is it you want?” “Jesus of Nazareth,” they said. Jesus answered, “I told you that I am he. If you are looking for me, then let these men go.” This happened so that the words he had spoken would be fulfilled: “I have not lost one of those you gave me.”

John 18:1-9
The New International Version

April 6, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Monday

On the cross Jesus was guilty of nothing but God treated Jesus as if he had committed personally every sin ever committed by every person who would ever believe…though in fact he committed none of them. That’s what substitution means.

John MacArthur

And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, “Take, eat; this is My body.” Then He took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. But I say to you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in My Father’s kingdom.” And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

Matthew 26:26-30
The New King James Version

Nails didn’t hold Jesus to the Cross.
Love did.

Unknown

April 3, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Friday

God puts his ear so closely down to your lips that he can hear your faintest whisper. It is not God away off up yonder; it is God away down here, close up—so close up that when you pray to him, it is more a whisper than a kiss.

Thomas De Witt Talmage

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that overcomes the world, our faith.

1 John 5:4
The Revised Standard Version

Should anyone knock at my heart and say, “Who lives here?” I should reply, “Not Martin Luther, but the Lord Jesus Christ.”

Martin Luther

April 2, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace—only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.

Anne Lamott

Trust in the Lord God always, for in the Lord Jehovah is your everlasting strength.

Isaiah 26:4
The Living Bible

April 1, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

From strength to strength go on, wrestle and fight and pray,
Tread all the powers of darkness down and win the well-fought day.

Charles Wesley

In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears.

2 Samuel 22:7
The King James Version

Lord, I called across the barrenness to you with my empty cup…If only I had known you better, I’d have come running with a bucket.

Nancy Spiegelberg

March 31, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

I am quite happy to be called an optimist, but my optimism is not of the utopian variety. It is based on hope. What is an optimist? I can answer for myself in a very simple fashion: He or she is a person who has the conviction that God knows, can do, and will do what is best for mankind.

Pedro Arrupe

A man’s heart plans his way, But the Lord directs his steps.

Proverbs 16:9
The New King James Version

March 30, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Monday

They say of some temporal suffering, “No future bliss can make up for it,” not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory.

C. S. Lewis

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Matthew 11:28
The Revised Standard Version

May we not keep our blessings, but give them away.

Thom M. Shuman

March 27, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Friday

What we need very badly these days is a company of Christians who are prepared to trust God as completely now as they know they must do at the last day. For each of us the time is coming when we shall have nothing but God. Health and wealth and friends and hiding places will be swept away, and we shall have only God. To the man of pseudo faith that is a terrifying thought, but to real faith it is one of the most comforting thoughts the heart can entertain.

A. W. Tozer

Watch, stand fast in the faith, be brave, be strong.

1 Corinthians 16:13
The New King James Version

Hush! my dear, lie still and slumber,
Holy angels guard thy bed.
Heavenly blessings without number
Gently falling on thy head.

Isaac Watts

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