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
MAY 30
"Why died I not from the womb? ... For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept; then had I been at rest."- Job 3:11,13
Job’s loyalty to God had been greatly tested. He had lost his family and his livestock and was very sick with boils over all his body. In these verses Job shows that death is not a state of life on a different plane, but it is as sleep, or rest, until resurrection. Ecclesiastes 9:10
May 30
Rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation. (Romans 12:12)
HERE is an important part of the great battle of the Christian's life. He must fight the natural tendencies of the old nature and confidently anticipate the victory in the strength of the great Captain of his Salvation. He must not succumb to the flattering and deceptive influences of prosperity, nor faint under the burdens of adversity. He must not allow the trials of life to sour and harden his disposition, to make him morose, or surly, or bitter, or unkind. Nor may he allow pride or ostentation or self-righteousness to grow and feed upon the temporal good things which the Lord's providence has granted him to test his faithfulness as a steward.
May 30
When he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth. John 16:13
THE Holy Spirit, in harmony with our Lord's promise, was sent only to the consecrated class, and was to abide in the true church class, "the body of Christ," and we, and all others who since have come into fellowship and union with our Lord, "the Head of the body which is his church," have thus come into and under the influence of the Holy Spirit, our rightful portion and privilege. By this Spirit we were begotten to the spiritual nature, and became heirs of all the exceeding great and precious promises which belong to the "body of Christ."
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Exceeding Great and Precious Promises
