May 4, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

The devil cannot lord it over those who are servants of God with their whole heart and who place their hope in him. The devil can wrestle with but not overcome them.

Shepherd of Hermas

And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

John 14:13
The King James Version

When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord’s choicest wines.

Samuel Rutherford

May 3, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

It is remarkable with what Christian fortitude and resignation we can bear the suffering of other folks.

Jonathan Swift

Let the message about Christ, in all its richness, fill your lives. Teach and counsel each other with all the wisdom he gives. Sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs to God with thankful hearts.

Colossians 3:16
The New Living Translation

High up in the North, in the land called Svithjod, there stands a rock. It is 100 miles high and 100 miles wide. Once every 1000 years a little bird comes to this rock to sharpen its beak. When the rock has thus been worn away, then a single day of eternity will have gone by.

Hendrick Willem Van Loon

May 2, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Monday

O Lord, support us all the day long, until the shadows lengthen and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done. Then in Thy mercy grant us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last.

Book of Common Prayer

When anxiety was great within me, your consolation brought me joy.

Psalm 94:19
The New International Version

The average man’s judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.

Ed Howe

April 29, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Friday

I don’t envy those who have never known any pain, physical or spiritual, because I strongly suspect that the capacity for pain and the capacity for joy are equal. Only those who have suffered great pain are able to know equally great joy.

Madeleine L’Engle

When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you. All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.

John 16:13-15
The English Standard Version

God is never late and never early but always right on time.

Rick Warren

April 28, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

The public has a deep respect for the amazing scientific advances made within our lifetime. There is admiration for the scientific process of observation, experimentation of testing every concept to measure its validity. But it still bothers some people that we cannot prove scientifically that God exists. Must we lift a candle to see the sun?

Wernher von Braun

For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

Romans 8:6
The King James Version

God cares about details. If you comb out some hairs in the morning, the record in Heaven is changed.

John Rice

April 27, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

If God is a reality and the soul is a reality and you are an immortal being, what are you doing with your Bible shut?

Herrick Johnson

But, dearly loved friends, if our consciences are clear, we can come to the Lord with perfect assurance and trust, and get whatever we ask for because we are obeying him and doing the things that please him.

1 John 3:21-22
The Living Bible

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy

April 26, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

Our lives have become so antiseptic that we honesty believe we’ve suffered adversity and experienced affliction if our shoes pinch our toes, if our car is in the shop and we must take the bus, or if we find a bug in our water glass. Meanwhile, much of the world’s population can’t afford shoes, travel only where they can get by foot, and often die for lack of food and water.

S. Rickly Christian

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

2 Corinthians 1:3-4
The English Standard Version

He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.

William Law

April 25, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Monday

To be a Christian, or not to be, is not a matter of being a somewhat better man, or a man perhaps not quite so good. It is a matter of life or death.

James Denney

Yet I am always with you; you hold me by my right hand.

Psalm 73:23
The New International Version

It is said that sheep may get lost simply by nibbling away at the grass and never looking up. That can be true for any of us. We can focus so much on what is immediately before us that we fail to see life in larger perspective.

Donald Bitsberger

April 22, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Friday

Silly people think that money commands the bodily goods most worth having.

Thomas Aquinas

The Lord is near to those who have a broken heart, And saves such as have a contrite spirit.

Psalm 34:18
The New King James Version

To read the Bible as literature is like reading Moby Dick as a whaling manual or The Brothers Karamazov for its punctuation.

Frederick Buechner

April 21, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

We must wait for God long, meekly, in the wind and wet, in the thunder and lightning, in the cold and the dark. Wait, and he will come. He never comes to those who do not wait. He does not go their road. When he comes, go with him, but go slowly, fall a little behind; when he quickens his pace, be sure of it before you quicken yours. But when he slackens, slacken at once; and do not be slow only, but silent, very silent, for he is God.

Frederick W. Faber

But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.

Jeremiah 7:23
The King James Version

We are pilgrims, not settlers; this earth is our inn, not our home.

J. H. Vincent

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