This Day’s Thought-Wednesday


This Day's Thought

Faith knows itself to be weak and uncertain, and yet, like the reed it will survive the storm better than the proud oak.  It knows that in this world it can never penetrate all the unfathomable mysteries of God, and yet, however tiny the light it receives from him, this is the only light that can really show it the way.

Paul Tournier


This Day's Verse

 “Don’t misunderstand why I have come.  I did not come to abolish the law of Moses or the writings of the prophets.  No, I came to accomplish their purpose.  I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not even the smallest detail of God’s law will disappear until its purpose is achieved.”

Matthew 5:17-18
The New Living Translation


This Day's Smile

The surest method of arriving at a knowledge of God’s eternal purposes about us is to be found in the right use of the present moment.  Each hour comes with some little fagot of God’s will fastened upon its back.

F. W. Faber


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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday


This Day's Thought

Look on little deeds as great, on account of Christ, who dwells in us, and watches our life; look on great deeds as easy, on account of His great power.

Blaise Pascal


This Day's Verse

In the book written by the prophet Isaiah, God announced that he would send his Son to earth, and that a special messenger would arrive first to prepare the world for his coming.  “This messenger will live out in the barren wilderness,” Isaiah said, “and will proclaim that everyone must straighten out his life to be ready for the Lord’s arrival.”  This messenger was John the Baptist.  He lived in the wilderness and taught that all should be baptized as a public announcement of their decision to turn their backs on sin, so that God could forgive them.

Mark 1:2-4
The Living Bible


This Day's Reprise

Open hands should characterize the soul’s attitude towards God—open to receive what he wants to give, open to give back what he wants to take.

Elisabeth Elliot


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This Day’s Thought-Monday


This Day's Thought

Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand ages hence.

Jonathan Edwards


This Day's Verse

He who obeys a command will meet no harm, and the mind of a wise man will know the time and way.

Ecclesiastes 8:5
The Revised Standard Version


This Day's Smile

Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.

Satchel Paige


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This Day’s Thought-Friday


This Day's Thought

The distinctive element in Christian ethics is the primacy of love, the self-giving love that is known fully to Christian faith in the cross of Christ.

John Bennett


This Day's Verse

Now it happened as He went to Jerusalem that He passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.  Then as He entered a certain village, there met Him ten men who were lepers, who stood afar off.  And they lifted up their voices and said, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!”  So when He saw them, He said to them, “Go, show yourselves to the priests.”  And so it was that as they went, they were cleansed.  And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, returned, and with a loud voice glorified God, and fell down on his face at His feet, giving Him thanks.  And he was a Samaritan.  So Jesus answered and said, “Were there not ten cleansed?  But where are the nine?  Were there not any found who returned to give glory to God except this foreigner?”  And He said to him, “Arise, go your way.  Your faith has made you well.”

Luke 17:11-19
The New King James Version


This Day's Smile

We’re not to figure things out.  We’re to work things out.  The Lord has already figured it out.

Unknown


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This Day’s Thought-Thursday


This Day's Thought

I feel it is far better to begin with God, to see His face first, to get my soul near Him before it is near another.  In general it is best to have at least one hour alone with God before engaging in anything else.

E. M. Bounds


This Day's Verse

Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.  And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

Matthew 19:23-24
The King James Version


This Day's Reprise

The Christian is not one who has gone all the way with Christ.  None of us has.  The Christian is one who has found the right road.

Charles Allen


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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday


This Day's Thought

Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.

Corrie ten Boom


This Day's Verse

“Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven; give, and it will be given to you.  Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap.  For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”

Luke 6:37-38
The English Standard Version


This Day's Smile

The heart benevolent and kind
The most resembles God.

Robert Burns


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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday


This Day's Thought

The devil has power to suggest evil, but he was not given the power to compel you against your will.

Cyril of Jerusalem


This Day's Verse

What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them?  Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food.  If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it?  In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.

James 2:14-17
The New International Version


This Day's Reprise

Apart from Christ we know neither what our life nor our death is; we do not know what God is nor what we ourselves are.

Blaise Pascal


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This Day’s Thought-Monday


This Day's Thought

Living is death; dying is life.  On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that, citizens; on this side, orphans; on that, children; on this side, captives; on that, freemen; on this side disguised, unknown; on that, disclosed and proclaimed as the sons of God.

H. W. Beecher


This Day's Verse

“I am the good shepherd.  The good shepherd sacrifices his life for the sheep.  A hired hand will run when he sees a wolf coming.  He will abandon the sheep because they don’t belong to him and he isn’t their shepherd.  And so the wolf attacks them and scatters the flock.  The hired hand runs away because he’s working only for the money and doesn’t really care about the sheep.  I am the good shepherd; I know my own sheep, and they know me, just as my Father knows me and I know the Father.  So I sacrifice my life for the sheep.  I have other sheep, too, that are not in this sheepfold.  I must bring them also.  They will listen to my voice, and there will be one flock with one shepherd.”

John 10:11-16
The New Living Translation


This Day's Smile

An agnostic found himself in trouble, and a friend suggested he pray.  “How can I pray when I do not know whether or not there is a God?” he asked.  “If you are lost in the forest,” his friend replied, “you do not wait until you find someone before shouting for help.”

Dan Plies


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This Day’s Thought-Friday


This Day's Thought

Anguish and heartbreak may not be distributed very evenly around the world, but they are distributed very widely.  If we knew the facts, we would very rarely find someone whose life was to be envied.

Harold Kushner


This Day's Verse

Therefore I will look unto the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.

Micah 7:7
The King James Version


This Day's Smile

The kindest people are those who forgive and forget.

Unknown


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This Day’s Thought-Thursday


This Day's Thought

Have we not one God, and one Christ, and one Spirit of grace poured out upon us?  And is there not one calling in Christ?  Why do we divide and tear asunder the members of Christ, and raise up strife against our own body, and reach such a pitch of madness as to forget that we are members of one another?

Clement of Rome


This Day's Verse

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold In settings of silver.

Proverbs 25:11
The New King James Version


This Day's Reprise

We need Jesus every moment of every day.  To say anything else is ludicrous.

Tommy Tenney


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