Come to me, all of you who are tired and have heavy loads, and I will give you rest.
Accept my teachings and learn from me, because I am gentle and humble in spirit, and you
will find rest for your lives. The teaching that I ask you to accept is easy; the load I
give you is light to carry.
Matthew 11:28-30 (NCV)
Whoever does not care for his own relatives, especially his own family members, has turned
against the faith and is worse than someone who does not believe in God.
1 Timothy 5:8 (NCV)
It is in the circle of the home where children first learn the importance of individual
responsibility. Until we reclaim our families and our children, we will never deal with
the moral crisis in our society.
— Charles Colson
Daily Meditations by Pat Nordman ©
July 14
"...They will share [the burden] with you" (Exodus 18:22c).
There are some distresses in life that must be shared. When the doctor tries gently to
break the news to the grieving mother that her beautiful 20yearold daughter has
nonHodgkin's lymphoma, another heart and shoulder must be there to help bear the awful
burden; when the perplexed husband is told that his wife of 52 years has finally been
diagnosed as having Alzheimer's, he needs another to bear the burden with him.
We all need a significant other to carry us through the day of "grief and desperate
sorrow" (Isaiah 17:11c, KJV). It is not good for the anguished to be alone.
Pat Nordman ©
July 15
What is a man? "...The spirit of wisdom and understanding... counsel and
strength...knowledge and the fear of the Lord...He will not judge by what His eyes see,
nor make a decision by what His ears hear; but with righteousness He will judge the poor,
and decide with fairness for the afflicted of the earth ..." (Isaiah 11:24a NAS).
This verse applies to Jesus, and it is the human Man who we want to imitate. Jesus never
tyrannized nor insisted that His way be done. He did tell us that His Father's will must
finally be done, if we were to be happy.
Pat Nordman ©
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Spurgeon's Morning for July 14 |
Spurgeon's Evening for July 14 |
| If thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it" – Exodus 20:25 |
"As it began to dawn, came Magdalene, to see the sepulchre." - Matthew 28:1 |
The Lord alone must be exalted in the work of atonement, and not a single mark of man's chisel or hammer will be endured. |
If thou canst wait for Christ, and be patient in the hope of having fellowship with him at some distant season, thou wilt never have fellowship at all; for the heart that is fitted for communion is a hungering and a thirsting heart. |
| Spurgeon's Morning for July 15 | Spurgeon's Evening for July 15 |
| "The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar; it shall never go out." – Leviticus 6:13 |
"He appeared first to Mary Magdalene." - Mark 16:9 |
God loves to see the hearts of His people glowing towards Himself. Let us give to God our hearts, all blazing with love, and seek His grace, that the fire may never be quenched; for it will not burn if the Lord does not keep it burning. |
...Learn from this, that the greatness of our sin before conversion should not make us imagine that we may not be specially favoured with the very highest grade of fellowship. |
July 14 Job 21:1 - 24:25 |
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But my mouth would encourage you;
comfort from my lips would bring you relief.
Job 16:5 (NIV)
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Yield To The Moment by Cathy Vinson
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Would God allow such a disheartening "non"catching in order to
let us see what happens with a new command? Can you relate to Peter's sweat? Then what is God's rest? Looking at Hebrews 3 and 4 we can see an interesting interchanging of disbelief and disobedience and, conversely, belief and obedience. What does this all have to with rest? What does this teach us? This particular word for belief offers a spectrum of sound definitions that fill in a gap of understanding..."to persuade, agree, assure, obey, trust, yield." Yield. It appears it's in the yielding to the command of the Lord, the movement already begun that rest is entered. The command initiates "but because You said so..." His movements prayed for, watched, seen, detected, sensed and then joined in upon. "Believe," "obey." Could "Let us make every effort to enter His rest" be stated as Let us make every effort to cease from our own works? ("For anyone who enters God's rest also rests from his own works" (Heb 4:10) Watch with the alert eyes of faith so you can yield to what God is doing. See His movements. Watch Him, yield and join in. Are we exhausted enough to LABOR for this?
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