February 6, 2023 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Monday

We ought to love what Christ loved on earth, and to set no store by those things which He regarded as of no account.

John Vianney

The Lord has made known his salvation; he has revealed his righteousness in the sight of the nations. He has remembered his steadfast love and faithfulness to the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

Psalm 98:2-3
The English Standard Version

Years ago it was the custom for the people to bring their gifts to the front of the building. A well-known preacher was making an appeal to the people to give for a good cause. Many came to present their offerings of love. Among them was a little crippled girl who hobbled along a the end of the line. Pulling a ring from her finger, she placed it on the table and made her way back up the aisle. After the service an usher was sent to bring her to the preacher’s study. The preacher said, “My dear, I saw what you did. It was beautiful. But the response of the people has been so generous that we have enough to take care of the need. We don’t feel right about keeping your treasured ring, so we have decided to give it back to you.” To his surprise the little girl vigorously shook her head in refusal. “You don’t understand,” she said. “I didn’t give my ring to you, I gave it to God!”

Unknown

February 3, 2023 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Friday

Almost every day of my life I am praying that “a jubilant pining and longing for God” might come back on the evangelical churches. We don’t need to have our doctrine straightened out; we are as orthodox as the Pharisees of old. But this longing for God that brings spiritual torrents and whirlwinds of seeking and self-denial—this is almost gone from our midst.

A. W. Tozer

Your word I have hidden in my heart, That I might not sin against You.

Psalm 119:11
The New King James Version

Oh, not for more or longer days, dear Lord,
My prayer shall be—
But rather teach me how to use the days
Now given me.
I ask not more of pleasure or of joy
For this brief while—
But rather let me for the joys I have
Be glad and smile.

B. Y. Williams

February 2, 2023 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

An elderly woman was discovered in her single room in the city about a week after she had died. With her was found a daily journal, which she had kept up to the day which she had died. For the past six months, just one entry appeared for each day: “No one called today…no one called today.”

Alan Walker

For the Lord your God is a merciful God. He will not leave you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers that he swore to them.

Deuteronomy 4:31
The English Standard Version

You are one of a kind—designed to glorify God as only you can.

Unknown

February 1, 2023 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

For those in the married state, the best example we can cite is that of Joachim and Anne, who every year divided their income into three equal parts. One was for the poor, the second for the temple and the divine service, and the third for themselves.

Ignatius of Loyola

But God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with him, and made us sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 2:4-7
The Revised Standard Version

ABUNDANT LIVING
Think deeply,
Speak gently,
Laugh often,
Work hard,
Give freely,
Pay promptly,
Pray earnestly,
Be kind.

Unknown

January 31, 2023 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

I do not ask, Oh Lord,
A life all free from pain;
I do not seek to be
In this vast world of need
Without my load of care.
For this I know, the cross
Is my eternal gain,
And he who struggles on
At last shall enter in,
And be victorious there.
So, Lord, just keep me fit within,
And give me strength to fight,
And I will follow through the din,
From darkness up to light.

Daniel A. Poling

Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.

Psalm 27:14
The New International Version

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in; aim at earth and you will get neither.

C. S. Lewis

January 30, 2023 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Monday

Is life not full of opportunities for learning love? Every man and woman every day has a thousand of them. The world is not a playground; it is a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday, but an education. And the one eternal lesson for us all is how better we can love. What makes a man a good artist, a good sculptor, a good musician? Practice. What makes a man a good man? Practice. Love is not a thing of enthusiastic emotion. It is a rich, strong, manly, vigorous expression of the whole Christian character—the Christlike nature in its fullest development. And the constituents of this great character are only to be built up by ceaseless practice.

Henry Drummond

Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:

Job 11:16
The King James Version

Man without God is a seed upon the wind.

Unknown

January 27, 2023 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Friday

Religion is the direction of the mind toward what is conceived to be the highest truth,
of the will toward the highest duty, the chief thing to be done,
and of the heart toward the highest beauty, the most complete harmony and satisfaction.

Unknown

“I tell you the truth, anyone who believes in me will do the same works I have done, and even greater works, because I am going to be with the Father. You can ask for anything in my name, and I will do it, so that the Son can bring glory to the Father. Yes, ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it!”

John 14:12-14
The New Living Translation

God is with us in the evening,
and in the morning,
and in each new day.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

January 26, 2023 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

Prayer is, after all, a very dangerous business. For all the benefits it offers of growing closer to God, it carries with it one great element of risk: the possibility of change. In prayer we open ourselves to the change that God will do something with us that we had not intended.

Unknown

And Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Acts 2:38
The Revised Standard Version

Thou hast made us for Thyself, and the heart of man is restless until it finds its rest in Thee.

Augustine

January 25, 2023 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

By blood, I am Albanian. By citizenship, an Indian. By faith, I am a Catholic nun. As to my calling, I belong to the world. As to my heart, I belong entirely to the heart of Jesus.

Mother Teresa

Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;

1 Peter 1:22-23
The English Standard Version

Lord, the newness of this day
Calls me to an untried way:
Let me gladly take the road,
Give me strength to bear my load,
Thou my guide and helper be—
I will travel through with Thee.

Henry van Dyke

January 24, 2023 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

The faith that saves is the total response of the whole self to the will of God. It is the response of the mind in belief, the heart in trust, the will in conduct. It is to accept the fact that God goes all out for us, and then to be willing to go all out for God.

John A. Redhead

Let my mouth be filled with Your praise And with Your glory all the day.

Psalm 71:8
The New King James Version

Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence or learning.

Frederick Faber

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