Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.

Psalm 55:22

Life has burdens that no one can escape. Christianity does not remove the load: it teaches us how best to bear the burdens that fall rightfully to us.

Anonymous

Daily Meditations by Pat Nordman ©

July 27

"The greatest word is God. The deepest word is Soul. The longest word is Eternity. The swiftest word is Time. The nearest word is Now. The darkest word is Sin. The meanest word is Hypocrisy. The broadest word is Truth. The strongest word is Right. The tenderest word is Love. The sweetest word is Home. The dearest word is Mother." Anonymous.

The Bishop of Hippo said to Monica, Augustine's mother, "Depart, good woman, the child of so many prayers cannot be lost!" Mothers, don't forget the privileges we have in prayer and performance for our little ones.

Pat Nordman ©

Excerpts from today's Spurgeon's Devotions
Spurgeon's Morning for July 27	Spurgeon's Evening for July 27
"Exceeding great and precious promises." – 2 Peter 1:4	"Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect?" - Romans 8:3
There are promises which are like grapes in the wine-press; if you will tread them the juice will flow.	For the Christian there is no stroke from God's angry hand--nay, not so much as a single frown of punitive justice. The believer may be chastised by his Father, but God the Judge has nothing to say to the Christian, except "I have absolved thee: thou art acquitted."

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July 27 Proverbs 27:1 - 31:31

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What Bible character had eighteen wives and sixty concubines who gave birth to eighty-eight children?

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Today's Devotion

.. ...and by his light I walked through darkness! JOB ...and by his light I walked through darkness! JOB 29:3 NIV

Accountability

by Pat Nordman

"Your own ways have brought this down upon you; it is a bitter dose of your own medicine, striking deep within your hearts."

(Jeremiah 4:18 TLB)

We seem to have abdicated accountability. What an onerous word, accountability, in today's free-wheeling lexicon of rights and nuances ....

And yet our righteous God demands an accounting of our thoughts and actions. We might do well to remember that the one does follow the other, too. Otherwise, advertising would be for nought. It is silly to say that what we see and hear day in and day out has no effect on us.

Chuck Swindoll gives us four qualities of accountability in his book, Living Above the Level of Mediocrity:

Vulnerability – capable of being wounded, shown to be wrong, even admitting it before being confronted.

Teachability – a willingness to learn, being quick to hear and respond to reproof, being open to counsel.

Availability – accessible, touchable, able to be interrupted.

Honesty – committed to the truth regardless of how much it hurts, a willingness to admit the truth no matter how difficult or humiliating the admission may be. Hating all that is phony or false.

We had five sons and I recall buying a shirt for one of the younger boys that said, "The devil made me do it." He was a mischievous little guy and I thought the shirt was hilarious. Of course I never took it seriously and I'm sure he didn't when he was punished for some of his shenanigans. But as the decades have gone by and I've witnessed all the lawsuits flooding the land and everyone blaming everyone else, I wonder if the devil is laughing at us all.

The first it's-your-faulters were Adam and Eve, and we've been playing the blame game ever since. Amazing! But somewhere along the continuum of growth we learn to say, "OK, I did it, I take full responsibility, and I'm sorry for whatever grief and inconvenience I've caused."

Who wants to go first?

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The first it's-your-faulters were Adam and Eve, and we've been playing the blame game ever since. Amazing!

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