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  Today's Soul Food — September 15

Golden Words

 



But the meek will inherit the land and enjoy great peace. Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.

Matthew 5:5 (NIV)

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Meekness takes injuries like pills, not chewing, but swallowing them downs.

Sir Thomas Brown, Christian Morals, 1680

 


Daily Meditations by  Pat Nordman ©

 


September 15

"...I am now going to allure her; I will lead her into the desert and speak tenderly to her" (Hosea 2:14).

Sometimes we have to be brought to the place of desolation and loneliness before God can speak to us and make us understand what we have done to ourselves and what He would like to do for us. God does not drive us but He pleads with us to come out from the world and to come into the wilderness, away from old associations and habits, to a new life. It is there in the seeming barrenness of the wilderness that He will give us vineyards and hope and a new song (v.15). Divine leading is never contrary to our highest good; otherwise, God would be evil.

Pat Nordman ©

 

 


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Excerpts from today's Spurgeon's Devotions

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Spurgeon's Morning for September 15

Spurgeon's Evening for September 15
 

"He shall not be afraid of evil tidings."

- Psalm 112:7

  

"A people near unto him."

- Psalm 148:14

The ungodly, when they are overtaken by evil tidings, rebel against God; they murmur, and think that God deals hardly with them. Will you fall into that same sin? Will you provoke the Lord as they do?

When the gospel came, we were placed on quite another footing. The word "Go" was exchanged for "Come"; distance was made to give place to nearness, and we who aforetime were afar off, were made nigh by the blood of Jesus Christ.

 

 

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September 15  Da 1:1 - 4:37

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Today's  Devotion
 

 



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

 

Can't But It

by Pat Nordman 

 

 

"When Simon saw that the Spirit was given at the laying on of the apostles' hands, he offered money..."

(Acts 8:18)

"I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich..."

(Revelation 3:18)

Greek agoradzo, to be in the marketplace; to do business there. The word is used here in the sense of doing business with God on His terms. Man sold himself a slave to sin and Satan. God paid the price of his redemption. Man is now obligated to meet God's terms of faith, repentance, and service if he wants to be redeemed. The word is not used here of man actually paying a price in money, goods, exchanging material things for the gold, raiment and ointment of V.18, but rather of his paying the price of renouncing Satan, repenting of sins, and consecrating to God in face of suffering persecution such as Christians must suffer for Christ (v.19; 2 Tim. 3:12)." Dake Bible, p.305.

Simon the magician thought he could buy religion, much like we think we can buy happiness. His mind-set couldn't comprehend that both religion and happiness are by-products of a greater search for God Himself. We won't get it simply because we want it. The minister or friend who tells us so is tickling our fancies and telling us what we want to hear. Human nature loves the gold but doesn't like to search for it.

What is free cannot be bought. The word simony developed from this wish to purchase spiritual offices. Simon Magus was ready to trade eternal life for temporal power and God's glory for his own personal fame. God advises us to "buy from [him] gold refined in the fire" with our earnest prayers, repentance and hunger for Christ's righteousness. This is the only price he asks for his love and forgiveness.


Pat Nordman©

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What is free cannot be bought. The word simony developed from this wish to purchase spiritual offices.

 


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~ Every Instrument is Necessary ~


A conductor was rehearsing his great orchestra. The organ was rolling, giving beautiful melody. The drums were thundering. The trumpets were blaring out. The violins were singing beautifully. Suddenly something seemed wrong. Someone in the orchestra had thought, With all this going on, I can rest a while. This is a rehearsal anyway.
The conductor threw up his arms and said, "Where's the piccolo?"
The piccolo player said, "I'm obscure. I don't amount to much. With all of this going on, I don't have to keep playing."

But the one with the trained ear said, "Every one of us is necessary." When you and I feel obscure, we must remember God has something significant for our lives, and we need to respond.

— Gordon Johnson, "Finding Significance in Obscurity," Preaching Today, Tape No. 82.

But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister: And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all. Mark 10:43-44

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