What person alive will not die? Who can escape the grave?

Psalm 89:48 NCV

Pale Death, with impartial step, knocks at the poor man's cottage and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

Daily Meditations by Pat Nordman ©

July 12

Indigestion can be miserable; spiritual indigestion is even worse. Peevishness causes the heart to burn. One of the saddest aspects of slowburning anger is that it finally turns on the one who inflicts it.

Shakespeare said, "Men in rage strike those that wish them best." Soon those who once wished them well wish them gone and out of sight and mind, and then they wonder why they are no longer welcome in normal company. Those so bent on giving others a piece of their mind soon lose their own peace of mind. "Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice" (Ephesians 4:31).

Pat Nordman ©

Excerpts from today's Spurgeon's Devotions
Spurgeon's Morning for July 12	Spurgeon's Evening for July 12
"Sanctified by God the Father." --Jude 1 "Sanctified in Christ Jesus." -1 Corinthians 1:2 "Through sanctification of the Spirit." --1 Peter 1:2	"His heavenly kingdom." - 2 Timothy 4:18
It is correct to speak of sanctification as the work of the Father, of the Son, and of the Spirit.	Paradise is a place of security. When you enjoy the full assurance of faith, you have the pledge of that glorious security which shall be yours when you are a perfect citizen of the heavenly Jerusalem.

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July 12 Job 13:1 - 16:22

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But my mouth would encourage you;
comfort from my lips would bring you relief.
Job 16:5 (NIV)

He Turns Toward

by Cathy Vinson

"And this we will do, if God permit."

Hebrews 6:3

Oh, to have the face of God turn towards us! W Spencer Walton knew it as the "sunshine of His face." If He turns toward us, we know golden sunlight upon ourselves.

"To, to turn." Will He? "To, to turn" Biblically means to permit. If God turns to a situation, He must be choosing for it. His face turned to us is what we long for.

This must have been the heart's cry of the late Keith Green as he wrote..."Oh, Lord, You're beautiful. Your face is all I seek. And when YOUR EYES ARE ON this child, Your grace abounds to me."

Will we be able to leave immaturity and somehow proceed to maturity, a maturity that exercises in the strong sinews and tendons of the Word and can discern good from evil (Heb 6:1-2)? How can we possibly do this, go on to these things? "This we will do if God permits [turns to us]."

The choice of Authority. In the same way as Agrippa towards Paul, "permitting him to speak" (Acts 26:1) and King Xerxes towards Esther, permitting her entrance, so the choice of the Holy Potentate is at hand to turn to us.

May He turn to us. We may find this in "He said 'Seek you My face'; my heart said unto You, 'Your face, Lord, I will seek" (Ps 27:8).

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If God turns to a situation, He must be choosing for it. His face turned to us is what we long for.

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