Dear friends, never avenge yourselves. Leave that to God. For it is written,
"I will take vengeance;
I will repay those who deserve it,"
says the Lord.
Instead, do what the Scriptures say:
"If your enemies are hungry, feed them.
If they are thirsty, give them something to drink,
and they will be ashamed of what they have done to you."
Don't let evil get the best of you, but conquer evil by doing good.
Romans 12:19-21 (NLT)
During the Korean war, a South Korean Christian, a civilian, was arrested by the
communists and ordered shot. But when the young communist leader learned that the prisoner
was in charge of an orphanage caring for small children, he decided to spare him and kill
his son instead. So they shot the nineteen-year-old boy in the presence of his father.
Later the fortunes of war changed, and the young communist leader was
captured by the United Nations forces, tried, and condemned to death. But before the
sentence could be carried out, the Christian whose boy had been killed pleaded for the
life of the killer. He declared that he was young, that he really did not know what he was
doing. “Give him to me,” said the father, “and I’ll train him.”
The United Nations forces granted the request, and that father took the
murderer of his boy into his own home and cared for him. Today the young communist is a
Christian pastor.
—T. Roland Philips
Daily Meditations by Pat Nordman ©
October 10
We are not spared troubles but we can be strengthened by them. The athlete can't hope to
win the prize and privi-leges without the perspiration and per-severance. So it is in
life: "Tribula-tion brings about per-severance, and per-sever-ance, proven
charac-ter..." (Romans 5:3,4 NAS).
Chuck Swindoll said, "If you ask direc-tions to your destina-tion, and you are told
that the road you have to take is full of pot-holes, then every bump along the way is your
assurance you're on the right road." "Blessed is the man who perseveres under
trial..." (James 1:12a). There are lots of different bumps; we even manage to
cultivate our own.
Pat Nordman ©
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"And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible." - Jeremiah 15:21 |
In some sense the path to heaven is very safe, but in The Saviour who will keep his people to the end, will also present them at last to himself, as "a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing, but holy and without blemish." |
Who are the wicked that we should fear them? The Lord will utterly consume them; they are to be pitied rather than feared. As for terrible ones, they are only terrors to those who have no God to fly to, for when the Lord is on our side, whom shall we fear? |
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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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The late Rich Mullins sang "...I've heard the soldier's songs...love within them leads them on...ever widening their mercies in the fury of His love...the wreckless, raging fury that they call the love of God." Are we going to know it, the love of God as the wonderful, raging fury it is? Do we feel the incredibleness of His love pressing upon a simple life such as our own? How might its leak break through to begin its trickle upon and through us? Jeremiah 33:3 says "Call unto Me, and I will answer you and show you great and unsearchable things that you do not know." There is a worldful of "the things we do not know," things such as praise from the lips of a troubled teen, resurrection of a wrecked marriage, an overall raising of a whole community, things we never dreamed of. In our hearts, we do want to glorify Jesus, and He teaches us a profound principle in what glorifies Him. In John 16:15-16 He says "He [the Holy Spirit] will bring glory to Me by TAKING WHAT IS MINE AND MAKING IT KNOWN TO YOU. All that belongs to the Father is Mine. That is why I said the Spirit will take from what is Mine and make it known to you." It brings glory to Jesus to be taken from, to be revealed, oh may He ever be revealed and revealed... Might this be a beautifully settled truth within us. God has a Kingdom, one so wonderful with eternal pleasures at His right hand (Ps 16:11). It beckons to taken from, and can be by calling to Him. It is to great glory that He reveals to us in this our lifetime, this our generation. Will we call to Him, will we engage Him so as to take? This is the day for calling, calling so He can reveal, revealing as to our great awe and wonder at "what is His," and wonder that will bring glory unto our most priced Savior. Cathy Vinson© Send a note to Cathy Vinson , the writer of this devotion. |
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