Today's Soul Food — October 5

 

Golden Words

      


You must make allowance for each other's faults and forgive the person who offends you. Remember, the Lord forgave you, so you must forgive others.

Col. 3:13  (NLT)

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In a recent chapel service bulletin from Chaplain Wendell C. Hawley, comes a classic illustration of forgiveness. When the Moravian missionaries first went to the Eskimos, they could not find a word in their language for forgiveness, so they had to compound one. This turned out to be: Issumagijoujungnainermik. It is a formidable-looking assembly of letters, but an expression that has a beautiful connotation for those who understand it. It means: “Not-being-able-to-think-about-it-anymore.”

— Minister’ Research Service

 


Daily Meditations by  Pat Nordman ©

 


October 5

"Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me" (Luke 12:13). Jesus tells the man He is not his judge, and then warns him against covet-ousness.

Jesus' concern is with the man's attitude toward his brother, as well as his envy at the brother's good fortune. He tells the man his life does not consist of his possessions but his values, for "where your treasure is, there your heart will be, also" (Luke 12:34). Apparently the man did not listen to Jesus' dis-course. He was engrossed in what he perceived to be his need, so he lost that bles-sing, also. The man might not have been a good steward, either.

Pat Nordman ©

 

 


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Excerpts from today's Spurgeon's Devotions

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Spurgeon's Morning for October 5

Spurgeon's Evening for October 5
 

"He arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights."

- 1 Kings 19:8

  

"He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved."

- Mark 16:16

We are not to retain the precious grains of truth as the Egyptian mummy held the wheat for ages, without giving it an opportunity to grow: we must sow it and water it.

To believe is simply to trust, to depend, to rely upon Christ Jesus. To be baptized is to submit to the ordinance which our Lord fulfilled at Jordan...

 

 

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October 5  Mt 12:1 - 12:50

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Who tore his clothes when he heard his sons and daughters had all died at once?

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Today's  Devotion
 

 

But my mouth would encourage you; comfort from my lips would bring you relief.

Job 16:5 (NIV)

 

Inside

by Cathy Vinson 

 

"the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

(Col 1:27)

A good word to emphasize in this scripture is "in": Christ in you....

When we are aware of our own inner vacuum, Jesus being the strong one within means everything. Oh, to be strengthened with power IN our inner being, that Christ might dwell in our hearts! (Eph 3:16-17)

We want to FEEL that strength; the mystery is that He IS inside of us through rebirth!

When we need someone and want them badly, what can we do? We want to be next to them, embraced by them, surrounded by them...we would want to possess them. The very closest examples pictured in nature are through "inside-ness." Consider mother and fetus, man and wife. Our most intimate expression as the Church is found in Communion. We take within the elements. We are taking IN of Him.

The accepted fact of Christ IN us is revolutionary. We are sufficient. We have been given fullness in Christ (Col 2:10). We have all we need.

Assurance of this speaks out: "I can do all things through Christ who (within me) strengthens me" (Phil 4:13). 


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When we need someone and want them badly, what can we do?

 


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~ Not Anger but Patience ~ 

Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) was a great Afro-American educator. He organized the famous Tuskegee Institute, a school for Afro-Americans, at Tuskegee, Alabama. He was the school's first president.

Washington was born in slavery at Hales Fort, Virginia. Although he attended a mission school, he was largely self-educated. Few people have influenced the black race as much as did Washington.

On one occasion Washington was invited to give an address in a large city. Hailing a cab, Washington asked the driver to take him to the auditorium where Washington was to speak. But the white driver refused because Washington was black.

Patiently addressing the prejudiced driver, Washington said: "Alright, then, if you will get in the passenger seat I will drive you to the auditorium."

- Jack Finegan, At Wit's End (Richmond, VA: John Knox Press, 1963), 74

Patience is better than strength.
Controlling your temper is better than capturing a city.

Proverbs 16:32 (NCV)

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