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  Today's Soul Food —March 15
 

 

GOLDEN WORDS


Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

John 14:23 KJV

Jesus replied, "If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

John 14:23 NIV

Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him, and make Our abode with him.

John 14:23 NASB

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The only important decision we have to make is to live with God; He will make the rest.

Anonymous

 

 

Daily Meditations by  Pat Nordman ©

 

March 15

"`Come now,' he said, `I thought you had agreed to forgive and forget.' She replied: `Sure, but I don't want you to forget that I have forgiven and forgotten.'" Leslie R. Smith, This Love of Ours.

C. S. Lewis wrote, "Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive." He also wrote, "It is not that people think forgiveness is too high and difficult a virtue. No! It is that they think it a hateful and contemptible one." Corrie ten Boom, in The Hiding Place, tells about forgiveness. She, too, cried from her cross, "Father, forgive them..."

Pat Nordman ©

 


Today's Bible Question ?



  What brother of Jesus does Paul call an apostle?  

Previous question and Answer:

Who said: "The spirit truly is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Answer: Jesus said this to the three sleepy disciples in the Garden of Gethsemane. Mark 14:38

 

 

Excerpts from today's Spurgeon's Devotions

Spurgeon's Morning for March 15

Spurgeon's Evening for March 15

 

"Be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus."

-  2 Timothy 2:1

 

"He did it with all his heart and prospered."

-  2 Chronicles 31:21

 

He stands like the fountain, always flowing, but only running in order to supply the empty pitchers and the thirsty lips which draw nigh unto it. Like a tree, he bears sweet fruit, not to hang on boughs, but to be gathered by those who need.

If you would prosper in your work for Jesus, let it be heart work, and let it be done with all your heart. Put as much force, energy, heartiness, and earnestness into religion as ever you do into business, for it deserves far more.

 

 

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March 15 Psalms 52:1 - 59:17  

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Today's  Devotion
 

Rushing Virgins

 

 

"While they went to buy, the Bridegroom came..."

(Matthew 25:10)
 

There are just certain experiences in life that can't be rushed or pressed into a few moments. One such experience is being filled with the Holy Spirit.

"I counsel you to buy of Me..." (Rev 3:18). This we are told to do now, in the daytime. Do it now. Be wise.

For Jesus to describe the Kingdom of Heaven "then" in the last of days, He looked around for a common utensil that could most accurately portray the Christian's relationship with the filling of the Holy Spirit. He chose a lamp, a lamp of His times. "Lampas denotes a torch, frequently fed like a lamp, with oil from a little vessel used for the purpose; they held little oil and would frequently need replenishing...a lamp is supplied by oil, which in its symbolism is figurative of the Holy Spirit*."

It becomes apparent that numerous fillings, continual replenishments of God's Spirit are necessary to each believer. We, like the lanterns, seem to run through oil as conduits having limited capacities for the Holy Spirit to burn indefinitely without being filled and refilled. When Paul through the Holy Spirit said "be (continually) filled with the Holy Spirit" (Eph 5:18), it wasn't putting before us a choice, rather a very significant command.

Imagine the horror as the virgins realized "our lamps are going out" (25:8)! What do you do at that fretful moment but desperately "go and buy" as they could have done with more leisure on a safer day.

Initially all the virgins eagerly went to meet with, come face-to-face with the Bridegroom. All were ready to meet Him right then. In His delay, however, all nodded off and fell asleep. It was the middle of the night when the cry came. Where are we at the middle of the night? If we are awaken in deep sleep, what do we have? We have to go with what we've got. Can we get our heart right in a fleeting midnight moment? Let us not be foolish to think we can.

Prepare before the nodding. Prepare before slumber. Be filled. Buy now.

© Cathy Vinson

 
We, like the lanterns, seem to run through oil as conduits having limited capacities for the Holy Spirit to burn indefinitely without being filled and refilled. 

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