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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

This doctrine of God’s good will towards men, this command of men’s proportionable good will to one another, is not this the very body and substance, this the very spirit and life, of our Saviour’s whole institution?

Thomas Sprat

This Day's Verse

That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous. For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it. But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.

Proverbs 2:20-22
The King James Version

This Day's Smile

For a man to argue, “I do not go to church; I pray alone,” is no wiser than if he should say, “I have no use for symphonies; I believe only in solo music.”

George A. Buttrick

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Let us always bear about us such impressions of reverence, and fear of God, that we may humble ourselves before his almightiness, and express that infinite distance between his infiniteness and our weaknesses.

Jeremy Taylor

This Day's Verse

“Behold, as for the proud one, His soul is not right within him; But the righteous will live by his faith.”

Habakkuk 2:4
The New American Standard Bible

This Day's Smile

We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.

Blaise Pascal

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

Unto them that love him, God causeth all things to work for the best. So that with Him, by the heavenly light of steadfast faith, they see lite even in death; with Him, even in heaviness and sorrow, they fail not of joy and comfort; with Him, even in poverty, affliction, and trouble, they neither perish nor are forsaken.

Myles Coverdale

This Day's Verse

But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yea, let them exceedingly rejoice.

Psalm 68:3
The King James Version

This Day's Reprise

The way to worry about nothing is to pray about everything.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

He is a good time-server that improves the present for God’s glory and his own salvation.

Thomas Fuller

This Day's Verse

For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him.

2 Chronicles 16:9
The King James Version

This Day's Smile

Tears of joy are the dew in which the sun of righteousness is mirrored.

Jean Paul Richter

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

You cannot claim to worship Jesus in the tabernacle if you do not pity Jesus in the slum. Now go out into the highways and hedges, and look for Jesus in the ragged and the naked..in those who have lost hope, and in those who are struggling to make good. Look for Jesus in them; and when you have found him, gird yourself with his towel of fellowship and wash His feet in the person of his brethren.

Frank Weston

This Day's Verse

For the Lord watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked leads to destruction.

Psalm 1:6
The New International Version

This Day's Reprise

It would seem, after having been a Christian for almost 80 years, that I would no longer do ugly things that need forgiving.  Yet I am constantly doing things to others that cause me to have to go back and ask their forgiveness.  Sometimes these are things I actually do—other times they are simply attitudes I let creep in which break the circle of God’s perfect love.

Corrie ten Boom

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

God had given me this lesson that I could still be imperfect and be loved. That’s how God loves us. We humans are terrible at loving one another. We’re terrible at keeping peace. We’re terrible at running the world and using our free will but for some reason God loves us all anyway.

Monica Clare

This Day's Verse

“But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!”

Amos 5:24
The New International Version

This Day's Reprise

Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.

Augustine

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

The devil fears a soul in union with God as he fears God himself.

John of the Cross

This Day's Verse

But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day.

Proverbs 4:18
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

The audience was waiting for the brilliant pianist to come out onto the stage. Then, to everyone’s embarrassment, a little boy wandered up onto the stage and started banging out one harsh note on the Steinway. Suddenly, the maestro appeared in the wings and made his way over to the boy. Standing behind him as he banged away tunelessly, he began to weave a melody around the note, taking it up into his larger tune and transforming it into something beautiful. After a few moments, the maestro gently led the boy away from the piano, and together they took a bow to the audience’s applause. The little boy wandered back to his seat—not embarrassed, not having been made to look foolish. In the same way, Jesus can take the harsh, discordant, out-of-tune moments of our lives—perhaps a time of sexual sin, or of cowardice or defeat in some other way—and can weave his own purposes around them. As we let him do this, he transforms our mistakes and failures, bringing out of them something he can use for his glory.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Men’s wills cannot withstand the will of God.

Augustine

This Day's Verse

Blessed are the people who know the festal shout, who walk, O LORD, in the light of your face, who exult in your name all the day and in your righteousness are exalted. For you are the glory of their strength; by your favor our horn is exalted. For our shield belongs to the LORD, our king to the Holy One of Israel.

Psalm 89:15-18
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

I am made of unbelief, and cannot swim but where my feet may touch the ground.

Samuel Rutherford

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

God is more anxious to bestow His blessings on us than we are to receive them.

Augustine

This Day's Verse

I will give thanks to the LORD because of his righteousness and will sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High.

Psalm 7:17
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

If you were not strangers here, the dogs of the world would not bark at you.

Samuel Rutherford

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This Day's Thought

Joy is not mere happiness.
Nor does joy spring from a life of ease, comfort, or peaceful circumstances.
Joy is the soul’s buoyant response to a God of promise, presence, and power.

Susan Lenzkes

This Day's Verse

Those who are wise shall shine Like the brightness of the firmament, And those who turn many to righteousness Like the stars forever and ever.

Daniel 12:3
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

The almighty Father will use life’s reverses to move you forward.

Barbara Johnson

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