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
JULY 9
"Thou shah love thy neighbor as thyself."- Matthew 19:19
When we love others as much as we love ourselves, we are happy with their joys, and sympathize with their sorrows. By obeying this commandment to love God with all our hearts, and our neighbors as ourselves, we find these two laws are enough- in obeying them we would never deliberately hurt others. Galatians 5:14
July 9
When He putteth forth His own sheep, He goeth before them, and the sheep follow Him: for they know His voice. (John 10:4)
THE voice of the Good Shepherd is a blending of various sounds in a manner in which they are blended by no other voice. His voice sounds forth the chord of justice commingled with the chord of love, and the whole intoned with wisdom and with power. Other theories, plans and schemes of men and devils have no such harmony of sound as has the message which the Great Shepherd has sent us through His Son. Moreover when the true sheep hear the voice of the Good Shepherd, it satisfies their longings as nothing else could do. They will no longer be in danger of being attracted by other sounds, or voices, theories or schemes, but will reply to all, "Jesus has satisfied; Jesus is mine."
July 9
I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids, until I find out a place for the Lord. Psalm 132:4, 5
AS IT was in David's heart to build the temple, so naturally the desire comes to the Lord's people in the present time to establish the things of the Lord and his kingdom. Now is the time for gathering the various elements, gold, silver, precious stones, etc., which by and by shall constitute the Lord's temple. Now is the time, not only for the quarrying of the stones, but also for the shaping of them for their various positions in the temple of God. Now, as the Scriptures suggest, we are living stones, to be built together for a habitation of God through the Spirit.
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