Today's Soul Food — 
                    November 29

Golden Words

      


 Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.
 
John 20:29 KJV

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Belief is a truth held in the mind; faith is a fire in the heart.

Joseph Fort Newton.



Daily Meditations by  Pat Nordman ©

 


November 29

The gentle minister's voice cracked as he read the poem about a son. The minister was one who gave and gave to his people but his people didn't know about his own son. They would never know, for this gentle soul came later in his life to minister to this church and shared not his troubles but his love. His congregation told each other how much they loved him but did they ever tell him? Then one day this precious soul went on to another pasture. The people suddenly realized what manna he had given them. Would they ever again be so fortunate?

O people, if you are blessed with such a minister, tell him before it is too late.


Pat Nordman ©

 


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Excerpts from today's Spurgeon's Devotions

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Spurgeon's Morning for November 29

Spurgeon's Evening for November 29

"Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people ... Thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him."

- Leviticus 19:16, 17

"Spices for anointing oil."

- Exodus 35:8

 

Tale-bearing emits a threefold poison; for it injures the teller, the hearer, and the person concerning whom the tale is told. Whether the report be true or false, we are by this precept of God’s Word forbidden to spread it.

To go before the Lord without anointing is as though some common Levite had thrust himself into the priest’s office-his ministrations would rather have been sins than services. May we never venture upon hallowed exercises without sacred anointings.

   
   

 

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November 29  2Co 5:1 - 8:24

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Who said: "Is thy servant a dog that he should do this thing?"
 

Previous question and Answer:

Who said: "Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him."

Answer: Job, expressing his confidence in God, after being 'helped' by his three comforting friends.
Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. Job 13:15

 

 

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Today's  Devotion
 

 

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

 

Tears 

by Pat Nordman 

 

"You have collected all my tears and preserved them in your bottle! You have recorded every one of them in your book" 

Psalm 56:8 TLB

Tears are often the telescope through which men see into heaven." Anonymous. To think that our great God takes notice even of our tears and saves them as jewels! He promises that those who sow in tears shall reap in joy (Psalm 126:5). Our tears are posted in His book of remembrance, for He does not forget our anguish. His own Son was "a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; surely our griefs He Himself bore, and our sorrows He carried" Isaiah 53:3,4. 

We can better see another's anguish when our own eyes are bathed with purifying tears that wash out our blindness and allow us to better understand another's vision. There is an adage that says, "Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone." But one who empathizes because of a like experience literally enters into another's chamber of sorrows. Our own tears of grief quickly wash away preconceptions and presumptions and our hearts grow larger and softer for others.

Our heart is honed with God's whetstone. "He who did not spare his own Son" (Romans 8:32) will not spare us because He loves us so much. "No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it" Hebrews 12:11.

The shortest and most poignant verse in the Bible is "Jesus wept" (John 11:35). Jesus took on our weaknesses that He might give us strength. "For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are. . ." Hebrews 4:15. Only when we are in the cellar of despair can we appreciate and appropriate this marvelous truth. Our tears are His treasure! 

© Pat Nordman

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We can better see another's anguish when our own eyes are bathed with purifying tears that wash out our blindness and allow us to better understand another's vision. 

 

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In George MacDonald's stories about Malcolm, he describes the difficult process of taming his stubborn and rebellious horse Kelpie. Clementina sees Malcolms treatment of the horse as being extreme and severe. Later, Malcolm used this to illustrate God's dealings in our lives:

"My Lady... I fear you will never arrive at an understanding of God so long as you cannot bring yourself to see the good that often comes as a result of pain. For there is nothing from the lowest, weakest tone of suffering to the loftiest acme of pain to which God does not respond. There is nothing in all the universe which does not in some way vibrate within the heart of God. No creature suffers alone; He suffers with His creatures and through it is in the process of bringing His sons and daughters through the cleansing and glorifying fires, without which the created cannot be made the very children of God, partakers of the divine nature and peace.



by BBFI Missionary to Zaire/Zambia Patrick Coleman written by an unknown Confederate soldier. It is, to the best of my knowledge, untitled.  

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