May 27, 2019 by This Day's Thought

This Day’s Thought-Monday

Whoever seems to himself to have understood the divine scriptures in such a way that he does not build up that double love of God and neighbor has not yet understood.

Augustine of Hippo

Then he said to me, “Fear not, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand and humbled yourself before your God, your words have been heard, and I have come because of your words.”

Daniel 10:12
The English Standard Version

Decisions can take you out of God’s will but not out of His reach.

Unknown

May 24, 2019 by This Day's Thought

This Day’s Thought-Friday

Prayer is not an argument with God to persuade him to move things our way, but an exercise by which we are enabled by his Spirit to move ourselves his way.

Leonard Ravenhill

Therefore be patient, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently for it until it receives the early and latter rain. You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

James 5:7-8
The New King James Version

Does God seem far away? Guess who moved?

Unknown

May 23, 2019 by This Day's Thought

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

Doesn’t God’s Word come to us like a soft rain shower, dispelling the fury of the flames? Isn’t it like fireproof armor, against which heat is powerless? Then let afflictions come, for God has chosen me. Poverty, you may walk through my door, but God is already in my house, and He has chosen me. Sickness, you my intrude into my life, but I have a ready cure—God has chosen me. Dear Christian, don’t be afraid, for Jesus is with you. Through all your fiery trials, His presence is both your comfort and safety. He’ll never forsake those He has chosen for His own.

Charles H. Spurgeon

But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.

Psalm 78:38
The King James Version

May 22, 2019 by This Day's Thought

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

God is within all things but not included; outside all things, but not excluded; above all things, but not beyond their reach.

Gregory the Great

But Jesus said, “Your error is caused by your ignorance of the Scriptures and of God’s power!”

Matthew 22:29
The Living Bible

The more urgently you want to speak, the more likely it is that you will say something foolish.

Leo Tolstoy

May 21, 2019 by This Day's Thought

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

I believe in God as I believe in my friends, because I feel the breath of his affection, feel his invisible and intangible hand, drawing me, leading me, grasping me, because I possess an inner consciousness of a particular providence and of a universal mind that marks out for me the course of my destiny.

Miguel de Unamuno

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.

Romans 1:18
The English Standard Version

May 20, 2019 by This Day's Thought

This Day’s Thought-Monday

Faith is an inner conviction of being overwhelmed by God.

Gustaf Aulen

When pride comes, then comes disgrace; but with the humble is wisdom.

Proverbs 11:2
The Revised Standard Version

God is everywhere so pray anywhere.

Unknown

May 17, 2019 by This Day's Thought

This Day’s Thought-Friday

If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it, is in vain.

Jonathan Edwards

I will recount the steadfast love of the Lord, the praises of the Lord, according to all that the Lord has granted us, and the great goodness to the house of Israel which he has granted them according to his mercy, according to the abundance of his steadfast love.

Isaiah 63:7
The Revised Standard Version

How good a person feels when, exhausted from striving for goodness in his everyday life, he stretches out his hands to God.

Blaise Pascal

May 16, 2019 by This Day's Thought

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

Life is a hard fight, a struggle, a wrestling with the Principle of Evil, hand to hand, foot to foot. Every inch of the way must be disputed. The night is given us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power. The day, to use the strength which has been given us, to go forth to work with it till the evening.

Florence Nightingale

But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

Matthew 4:4
The English Standard Version

May 15, 2019 by This Day's Thought

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

Faith without ethical consequences is a lie. God does not need our sacrifices but he has, nevertheless, appointed a representative to receive them, namely our neighbor. The neighbor always represents the invisible Christ.

J. S. Whale

The purpose of these laws is to cause you, your sons, and your grandsons to reverence the Lord your God by obeying all of his instructions as long as you live; if you do, you will have long, prosperous years ahead of you.

Deuteronomy 6:2
The Living Bible

The church is a hospital for sinners, not a rest home for saints.

Church sign

May 14, 2019 by This Day's Thought

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

For some who pray expecting an answer, it takes a long time to learn that delays of answers are not denials. There are deep secrets of love and wisdom that we have never imagined awaiting us. We tend to want to pick our blessings from the tree while they are still green, yet God wants us to wait until they’re fully ripe. Do not doubt His love. Instead, lift up your eyes and begin praising Him right now for the deliverance that is on its way to you. Then you’ll be abundantly rewarded for the delay that has tried your faith.

L. B. Cowman

He who restrains his words has knowledge, and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding.

Proverbs 17:27
The Revised Standard Version