The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these
brothers of mine, you did for me.
Matthew 25:40 (NIV)
How is it to be explained - the very heart and mystery of the Christian faith? To soothe
those battered old heads, to grasp those poor [leprous] stumps, to take in one's arms
those children consigned to dustbins, because it is his head, as they are his stumps and
his children, of whom he said that whosoever received one such child in his name received
Him.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
Daily Meditations by Pat Nordman ©
July 20
"So Lot chose for himself all the valley of the Jordan...Thus they separated from
each other" (Genesis 13:11 NAS). Abraham gave Lot first choice, and Lot took the
choicest part. Lot didn't commit evil in the choice; rather, it was in the motive. He
wanted worldly good, and didn't give thought to the final consequences of his choice. His
uncle Abraham's first thought was how best to serve God; Lot's first thought was how best
to serve Lot.
Paul, too, had a problem with being forsaken for what Demas thought was greener pasture:
"Demas, because he loved this world, has deserted me and has gone to
Thessalonica..."(2 Timothy 4:10).
Pat Nordman ©
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"And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor?." - Jeremiah 2:18 |
We have enjoyed the firstfruits of the Spirit, and they have set us hungering and thirsting for the fulness of the heavenly vintage. |
Good Rutherford once said, "I have tasted of Christ's own manna, and it hath put my mouth out of taste for the brown bread of this world's joys." |
July 20 Proverbs 1:1
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.. ...and by his light I walked through darkness! JOB ...and by his light I walked through darkness! JOB 29:3 NIV
Gossip by Pat Nordman
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Martin Luther had much to say about gossip and its terrible by-products. Luther pointed out that when we gossip we are doing Satan's chores for him. He related an incident of a couple so happily married that it was the talk of the town. The devil couldn't cause disharmony between them, but he finally hit upon the trick: he sent an old hag to the wife to tell her that her husband was having an affair with another woman and he planned to kill her. The hag told her that she would find a knife under her husband's pillow. She then hurriedly went to the husband with the same terrible tale. Unfortunately for the wife, the husband found her knife first, and that was the end of the town's happiest marriage. There are several vital lessons here: malicious tongues kill; Satan is behind the vicious tongue; trust your partner; and, above all, check your sources. Gossip is verbal interest in the failings of others rather than their feelings. Our own faults should keep us busy enough praying to a forgiving and forgetting Father and offering prayers of thanksgiving that He so willingly overlooks our own many mal- practices of tongue. "I take it as a matter not to be disputed, that if all knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world. This seems proved by the quarrels and disputes caused by the disclosures which are occasionally made." Pascal. Busybodies are parasites who go about stinging the innocent with veiled but spiteful venom. Let us beware of the one who is busy with everyone else's business. Paul gives excellent advice to Timothy: "Turn away from godless chatter and the opposing ideas of what is falsely called knowledge. . ." 1 Timothy 6:20. We have an overabundance of knowledge these days but precious little wisdom! Send a note to © Pat Nordman, the writer of this devotion.. |
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