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
OCTOBER 24
"Everyone that hears these sayings of mine, and does them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand."- Matthew 7:26
God’s teachings in the Bible are the foundation upon which we build our lives; they are true and never change. But sand shifts, and strong winds can destroy anything built upon it. Let us base our lives on the firm foundation of God’s Word, rather than on the creeds and traditions of men. Luke 6:49
October 24
And as they led Him away, they laid hold upon one Simon,...and on him they laid the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus. (Luke 23:26)
WE have often wondered, where were Peter and John and James that they did not see the Master's burden and run to proffer assistance? If disposed to envy Simon his privilege of assisting the Master in the bearing of the cross, let us reflect that many of the Lord's brethren are daily bearing symbolic crosses, and that it is our privilege to assist them, and that the Lord agrees to reckon any service done to His faithful followers as though it were rendered to His own person....As the wooden cross was not our Lord's heaviest burden, so, too, His followers have crosses which the world sees not, but which the "brethren" should understand. "Bear ye one another's burdens and thus fulfill the law of Christ."
October 24
I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on Me should not abide in darkness. John 12:46
THE Holy Spirit is the light of the church, by which we are being specially guided into the truth. The Apostle Peter tells us that we have a more sure Word of prophecy, whereunto we do well that we take heed as unto a light that shineth in a dark place. (II Peter 1:19) The light on the path of the just "shineth more and more unto the perfect day." We are still in the dark place, and shall be until the darkness gives way and the day is here. And so, as Peter says, we have need of the Word of prophecy "until the day dawn." Thus we find that one scripture helps to elucidate another.
Devotional Books
Exceeding Great and Precious Promises
Poems of Dawn
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