GOLDEN WORDS
Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think,
according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to
all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
Eph 3:20-21 (KJV)
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,
to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
Eph 3:20-21 (NIV)
Now to Him who is able to do exceeding abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, 21 to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.
Eph 3:20-21 (NASB)
The prospects are as bright as the promises of God.
Adoniram Judson
Daily Meditations by Pat Nordman
January 25
"I do not concern myself with great matters or things too wonderful for
me. But I have stilled and quieted my soul..." Psalm 131:1b,2a.
The people's right to know is a figment of the people's imagination. Principled minds
shouldn't want to know all the sweepings and rantings and ratings in someone else's life.
There isn't time to sift through all the trustworthy data, much less the nonsense. We must
sort through priorities and ascend to the top of the piles of information and find the
keynote for a worthier life. The byproduct is a more peaceful life.
We seem afflicted with spiritual indigestion. The violence that permeates earth is making
us heartsick. The papers are weighted with bad news and the gossip rags are atrocious. It
isn't inquiring minds but sick minds that want to know the latest litter and lies in
another's life. We become what we behold and what we read. It's repulsive to watch one
sinner (and we are all sinners) crawl and dig through another's life to glean the tiny
bits of chaff just to titillate the public and finally destroy the person. What has
happened to plain decency? "In the last days...men will be... malicious
gossips..." 2 Timothy 3:1,2.
It takes childlike confidence to know that God knows everything and to be perfectly
satisfied with that. It also takes humility. "Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too lofty for me to attain" Psalm 139:6. If we knew allor even had the right to know
it allthen we would be as God. Adam and Eve were banished from the garden because Satan
said and poor Eve fell for it, "For God knows that when you eat of [the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil] your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing
good and evil" Genesis 3:4.
"You asked, `Who is this that obscures my counsel without knowledge? Surely I spoke
of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know" Job 42:3.
Pat Nordman ©
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Spurgeon's Evening January 25 |
"I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the Lord, and the praises of the Lord, according to all that the Lord hath bestowed on us" - Isaiah 63:7 |
"Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law." - Romans 3:3
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Hast thou never been helped in time of need? Nay, I know thou hast. Go back, then, a little way to the choice mercies of yesterday, and though all may be dark now, light up the lamps of the past, they shall glitter through the darkness, and thou shalt trust in the Lord till the day break and the shadows flee away |
When the believer is adopted into the Lord's family, his relationship to old Adam and the law ceases at once; but then he is under a new rule, and a new covenant. Believer, you are God's child; it is your first duty to obey your heavenly Father. |
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... by Pat Nordman John
13:15
Are
we angry with someone? Do we feel another's hostility? Is there a
rupture of any kind with another person for whom our dear Jesus died? Have we a breach of
love or confidence that we need to repair? Are we allowing misunderstandings to stand in
the way of happiness, our own and another's? Jesus could have easily let His
beloved disciples wash their own feet. Peter in his human pride said to Jesus, "No,
you shall never wash my feet." V.8. But Jesus lovingly explained to Peter that,
unless He washed his feet, Peter would have no part with Him. When He was finished, Jesus
asked them, "Do you understand what I have done for you?" V.12. Could they--or
we--possibly understand what He has done for us all in this supreme act of love and
humility? Religion
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Today's Devotion
An
Example
"I have set you an
example that you should do as I have done for you"
"I have set before you an example. . ." What a mean service
to render to lowly men, washing their feet! And yet this is not how Jesus viewed it at
all. "The Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve" even the man who
was to betray Him! O! what a lesson there is here in this grand action by our Creator and
Redeemer! It defies sinful imagination but fires up a restored and Spirit-filled
imagination to go to that person who irritates and angers us and kneel before him or her
and immerse their feet--and our own hurting and hating heart--in the cleansing water. How
on earth can we continue to harbor bitterness in our hearts after doing this, even if only
in our imagination? By beholding our Jesus doing it for us, and our doing it for others,
then we can love them with His love.
The thought of His humble action and His great love is overwhelming.
May we in spirit and in Spirit follow His example.
How on earth can we
continue to harbor bitterness in our hearts after doing this, even if only in our
imagination?
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