Whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment.

Matthew 5:22

The world is now too dangerous for anything but the truth, too small for anything but brotherhood.

Adlai Stevenson - Saturday Review - 2/7/59

Daily Meditations by Pat Nordman ©

July 26

"Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise" (Proverbs 6:6);
"We do not want you to become lazy..." (Hebrews 6:12).

The tiny ant teaches us many lessons: it is self motivated and highly industrialized; it collects its food in the proper seasons; it is fond of its young; it has foresight for others; and it works quietly without show until the work is done. It also works in cooperation and organization with others and it keeps its home meticulously clean. It knows its job and does it.

"What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in Heaven for our Lord God..." Martin Luther.

Pat Nordman ©

Excerpts from today's Spurgeon's Devotions
Spurgeon's Morning for July 26	Spurgeon's Evening for July 26
"Giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge, etc." – 2 Peter 1:5, 6	That he may set him with princes." - Psalm 113:8
Study well the Scriptures, and get knowledge; for a knowledge of doctrine will tend very much to confirm faith. Try to understand God's Word; let it dwell in thy heart richly.	The child of God has free access to the inner courts of heaven. "For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father."

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July 26 Proverbs 23:1 - 26:28

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Current Bible Question

What Bible character had eighteen wives and sixty concubines who gave birth to eighty-eight children?

Previous question and Answer:

How did Michal, David's wife, help David to escape the king's messengers?

She put a dummy in the bed (1 Samuel 19:12-16)

Today's Devotion

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

Getting Older

by Pat Nordman

"Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you."

(Isaiah 46:4)

Now that I am galloping toward the twilight, I'm trying to pay more attention to these excellent precepts for old age given us by Dr. Frank Crane:

I will not try to act nor dress nor talk so as to make people think I am younger than I am.
I will not pretend to be young, nor be angry when called old, nor ashamed of my age.
I will not complain of being old.
I will not continually remind people of my old age to secure their sympathy, or to hear them say I am not so old after all or do not seem so.
I will not form the habit of indulging in reminiscences.
I will be particularly careful not to repeat the same anecdote over and over.
I will not complain of the present and claim the past was much better.
If I am deaf, weak-eyed, lame, or otherwise afflicted, I will not advertise my infirmities, but avoid obtruding them upon the notice of others as much as possible.
I will not talk of myself, my work, my achievements, even of my mistakes, any more than necessary.
I will speak cheerfully or keep still.
I will never indulge in cynicism, never sneer at youth and will always try to appreciate what younger folks do.
I shall concede my life's triumph to be growing triumphantly, victoriously old.
In a word, I shall try to adjust myself to old age, as well as to all other facts of life.