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
MARCH 29
"What shall be the signs of thy coming [presence] and of the end of the world (age)?"- Matthew 24:3
The word translated coming, in this verse, is the Greek word parousia, which means ‘presence’. So, the question is, What would be the sign of the Lord’s presence? This indicates that it will not be clear to everyone that he has returned, because they will need signs to know for certain. Jesus goes on in this chapter to tell what these many signs are. Luke 21:7
March 29
By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God. (Ephesians 2:8)
AS members of the fallen race we were incapable of doing any work which our holy God could accept....Our present standing, therefore, as New Creatures, is not the result of anything that the old creature did, or could have done. It is not of ourselves; it is the gift of God. This lesson must be thoroughly appreciated, else we will be continually in danger of falling....So far from considering the New Creature as an evolution of the old creature, the apostle would have us understand distinctly that it is a new and separate creation. We were created in Christ Jesus, God's workmanship--prepared for good works, but not by good works.
March 29
They said to one another, It is manna:...And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat. Exodus 16:15
THE supply of manna was a beautiful figure of the supply of grace in Christ: it needed to be gathered daily; it would not keep over the succeeding days. The lesson of this would seem to be that those who accumulate much of God's grace and truth must also be dispensers of it. It is not provided with a view to the creation of a spiritual aristocracy. How often we have seen this exemplified: those who study the Word merely for themselves, and who do not commingle with the brethren and share their blessings, are not in the long run as much advantaged as we would have expected. Our gathering of the manna is to be day by day: our feeding on the Heavenly Bread is to be a continuous privilege, without which we will not have strength for the journey of life; but with it we should be strong in the Lord, and may perchance be permitted to assist others by the dispensing of divine grace to them
Devotional Books
Exceeding Great and Precious Promises
Poems of Dawn
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