Daily Devotions
"I want them to be encouraged and knit together by strong ties of love. I want them to have complete confidence that they understand God’s mysterious plan, which is Christ himself. In him lie hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge." Colossians 2:2-3 NLT
JANUARY 29
"As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts higher than your thoughts."- Isaiah 55:9
God’s thoughts are better than ours- they are always clear, reasonable, just, loving, and wise. Because of this, we can trust him at all times. We know that although God is much greater than we are, he loves us, and is always ready to listen to our prayers, through which he gives us the strength we need to endure our experiences. Romans 8:28
January 29
The fear [reverence] of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. (Psalm 111:10)
THIS is the only proper attitude of the creature toward the Creator, the Author of our being, and the Creator, Preserver and Lord of the whole universe. When He speaks, therefore, our ears should be reverently attentive to His voice, and every power alert to do His bidding. Our safety, our happiness, and that nobility of character which prompts to love and gratitude, and which promptly and wisely heeds instruction and advances in knowledge and wisdom, all depend primarily upon our supreme reverence for the Lord. And therefore the Lord would foster and cultivate in us that becoming, filial reverence that is due to His name.
January 29
The Lord is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation. Exodus 15:2
THE Lord is our strength; we lean not upon human might--neither of our own or of other men. We hold the Head, from whom not only come the laws which govern us, but from whom come the strength, the direction, the protection, the care, which we need and which we enjoy. The Lord is become our salvation; he has saved us from the condemnation of sin through faith in the blood; he has rescued us from the love of sin. He has not only revived us, but strengthened us, and enabled us to walk in the narrow way, and to do so with joy and gladness and leaping. He is our salvation already--the salvation that is to be brought unto us, and thus to be complete in us, in the first resurrection, is already begun--for we are already passed from death unto life, and have the witness of this in the Holy Spirit.
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