How great is God -- beyond our understanding!
The number of his years is past finding out.
Listen! Listen to the roar of his voice,
to the rumbling that comes from his mouth.
God's voice thunders in marveous ways;
he does great things beyond our understanding.

Job 36:26, 37:2, 5 NIV

The highest knowledge that we can have of God in this life is to know that He is above all we can think concerning Him.

St. Thomas Aquinas

Daily Meditations by Pat Nordman Š

September 21

"When God gives any man wealth and possessions, and enables him to enjoy them, to accept his lot and be happy in his workthis is a gift of God" (Ecclesiastes 5:19); "But remember the Lord your God, for it He who gives you the ability to produce wealth" (Deuteronomy 8:18).

Religion allows both the acquirement and enjoyment of wealth. What it prohibits is the selfishness which seems to grow like a barnacle if we don't acknowledge the source of our wealth, whether material or spiritual.

Pat Nordman Š

Excerpts from today's Spurgeon's Devotions With links to the entire devotion
Spurgeon's Morning for September 21	Spurgeon's Evening for September 21
"I will rejoice over them to do them good." - Jeremiah 32:41	"Gather not my soul with sinners." - Psalm 26:9
We do not read anywhere that God delighteth in the cloud-capped mountains, or the sparkling stars, but we do read that he delighteth in the habitable parts of the earth, and that his delights are with the sons of men.	You cannot be gathered with the wicked, for you are too dearly bought. Redeemed by the blood of Christ, you are his for ever, and where he is, there must his people be.

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September 21 Joe 1:1 - 3:21

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Today's Devotion

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

Did God Say?

by Pat Nordman

"Did God say. . .?"

(Genesis 3:1)

The serpent engaged Eve in a conversation that was a confrontation. He didn't ask Eve about the Garden and what she was allowed to do there; instead, he homed in on the one tree God had forbidden to Adam and Eve.

Human nature hasn't changed much through the ages since. We still question God about our restrictions and overlook our liberties. The moment we question God about His right and our rights, we engage in a controversy with Satan. When Jesus was led into the wilderness, He refused to enter into a controversy with Satan. His reply was "It is written" to every suggestion made by the great machinator of mankind.

When Satan slips up on us and makes us discontent because of what we don't have, let us show him the beauty that lines our garden and that is available to us for the praying. When we give it much thought, the restrictions of life are few and basic and necessary to our salvation, and they touch the core of our being for our own good, if we but allow God the wisdom to know what is best for us.

Satan's goal during our life is to make us question God's goodness; indeed, His very character. Augustine is reported to have said, "Love, and do what you like." Augustine understood that, when we love what is good, we understand the character of the person we love and we want to do what is right because we love. We have the liberty to do what we like because we love, and we won't betray who we love.

Eve momentarily "forgot the God who gave [her] birth" (Deuteronomy 32:18) and thus began the controversy of the ages. It began with a question that laid an ax at the very root of humanity. God's Word answers Satan's questions. When doubts assail and we find ourselves listening to doubts, our cure begins in God's Word.

Pat NordmanŠ

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We still question God about our restrictions and overlook our liberties.

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~ The Good Old Days? ~

This list of rules for white-collar workers was posted in 1872 by a carriage manufacturing company in New York:

1. Office employees each day will fill lamps, clean chumneys and trim wicks.

2. Each clerk will bring a bucket of water and a scuttle of coal for the day's business.

3. Make your pens carefully. You may whittle nibs to your individual taste.

4. Men employees will be given an evening off each week for courting purposes, or two evenings if they go to church regularly.

5. After 13 hours of labor in the office, the employee should spend the remaining time reading the Bible or other good books.

6. Every employee should lay from each pay a goodly sum of his earnings for his declining years so that he will not become a burden on society.

7. The employee who has performed his labors faithfully and without fault for five years will be given an increase of five cents per day in his pay, providing profits from the business permit.

- Mill Whistle, Jefferson Mills, GA.

"With joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation."