This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein
day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein:
for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
Wanamaker’s Innovation
Here is the great innovation in store keeping which John Wanamaker introduced: You could
buy anything in the store and take it home; after you got it home if you did not like it,
or the folks did not, or for any other reason you did not want it, you could take it back
and your money would be returned without any question, argument, or hemming and hawing!
Honesty had at last gotten into store-trading. Who could be “stuck” or
overcharged when each article had marked upon it an invisible ink, as it were, “If
you don’t think I’m your money’s worth, take me back.”
Of course, Mr. Wanamaker was imposed upon terribly. Women bought dresses, wore them to
parties, and took them back the next day. Others furnished their houses and table for a
function, then back with the glassware and china. But crowds filled the store and it grew
and grew, and when Mr. Wanamaker died, his estate was said to be some $40,000,000 or more.
Honesty is the best policy.
—Storekeeper
Daily Meditations by Pat Nordman ©
August 7
Charles Darwin wrote: "If I had to live my life again, I would have made a rule to
read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week; for perhaps the parts of
my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept active through use. The loss of these
tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more
probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature."
Without the finer aspects, we starve what is good and noble, just as truly as we would
starve the body if we didn't eat daily. Good poetry, music and art are God's gifts to make
life sweeter.
Pat Nordman ©
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Satan hindered us." - 1 Thessalonians 2:18 |
Believers love Jesus with a deeper affection then they dare to give to any other being. They would sooner lose father and mother then part with Christ. They hold all earthly comforts with a loose hand, but they carry him fast locked in their bosoms. |
Fierce conflicts we had with Satan when we first looked to the cross and lived. Now that we are saved, he endeavours to hinder the completeness of our personal character. |
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August 7 Isa 32:1 - 37:38 |
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But my mouth would encourage you;
comfort from my lips would bring you relief.
Job 16:5 (NIV)
Perfect Impliments by Cathy Vinson
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At the hopeful end of a drawnout case of poison ivy and its effects, I can earnestly embrace a lesson from Scripture. If I am concluding correctly, I have continually reacted to this allergic reaction in my system by releasing histamine; the effect is itching. The itching is a symptom of an underlying problem. This persistent sign of body-wide itching has clued me in that this foreign invader is still at large within me. Healing is not yet complete. In a similar way, I see the sign of often-offered sacrifices of the Old Testament covenant. "[they] can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship. If they could, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins" (Heb 10: 1b-2). Continual and often vs once for all. The "often" nature of offering sacrifices for sin is a symptom that all is not well. If a conscience is completely pure, such offerings end. It is that lingering sense of sin that drives one to this type of sacrifices. God through the writer to the Hebrews is thoroughly convincing us to look at the perfected side of all this. We need to look at the excellence of the new covenant: "now has He obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also He is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises" (8:6). The implements of our cleansing surgery are full-proof, impeccable, perfect..."by His own blood He entered in once into the holy place..." (9:12). By such excellence we are cleansed to the very innermost of our being and conscience. We are ready to go onward. I am drawn to God even more to realize He knows what repels us, and that very thing He focused upon: the issue of a guilty conscience. We are now securely liberated and draw near to Him, so near. We are receiving now a covenant meant to be continuous (8:9b) and carrying a "once for all" stableness. So as my detection of itching sends a message to me, more importantly a beggarly impulse to repeatedly sacrifice signals that something true of such worth has not yet been grasped fully within me. "For Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, figures of the true, but into Heaven itself, now [in the immediate present] to appear in the presence [before the face] of God for us" (Heb 9:24)..."by which we draw near..." (7:19) Cathy Vinson©
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