Today's Soul Food — November  8

Golden Words

      


Lord, help me to control my tongue; help me to be careful about what I say. Take away my desire to do evil or to join others in doing wrong. Don't let me eat tasty food with those who do evil.  

Psalm 141:3-4 (New Century Version)

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What was I thinking when I said that? I was feeling rotten. I was angry about a situation over which I had no control. I didn't control my tongue. I said something very nasty and hurt a co-worker. I guess I felt that since I was hurting, so should she.

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I'm very sorry now. It's too late to take it back. The damage is done. There will be a long time of healing. Things will never be the same between us. LORD, forgive me. Help me to control my tongue. Help me to love and forgive. Lord heal the hurt that I have caused.
Take a tip from nature -- your ears aren't made to shut, but your mouth is!  

Anomymous



Daily Meditations by  Pat Nordman ©

 


November 8

"Love...keeps no record of wrongs" (1 Corinthians 13:5c); "God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them..." (2 Corinthians 5:19). Can't we do for others that which God does for us: write wrongs in ashes? We keep a record of the "sins" which God has already put away from Him, "as far as the east is from the west" (Psalm 103:12). 

Our heart is blackened with the soot of another's trespasses and now and then we sweep up a bit of it and rub our hands and minds in it, and then ask God for forgiveness for our meanness–again. Instead, let us reconcile and wipe the record clean forever.


Pat Nordman ©

 


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Spurgeon's Morning for November 8

Spurgeon's Evening for November 8

"As ye have received Christ Jesus the Lord."

- Colossians 2:6


"The Master saith, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?"

- Mark 14:14

 

As the earth drinks in the rain, as the sea receives the streams, as night accepts light from the stars, so we, giving nothing, partake freely of the grace of God.

What an honour to entertain the Son of God! The heaven of heavens cannot contain him, and yet he condescends to find a house within our hearts!

 

   

 

 

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Today's  Devotion
 

 

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

 

Weightless

by Pat Nordman 

 

". . .Let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us"

Hebrews 12:1b

A  runner knows that he cannot run with weights that would pull him down or back. So it is in our spiritual race, too. Not everything that hinders is a sin, either. Benjamin Franklin, in his Poor Richard's Almanac, wrote: "When confronted with two courses of action, I jot down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favor of each one. Then, by weighing the arguments pro and con and canceling them out one against the other, I take the course indicated by what remains." There are legitimate gray areas of life when it is a good idea to do this. It's choosing the better of two goods when two options are equally honorable.

What are the weights? They are different for each of us. They might be weights of too many possessions; works of the flesh that inhibit the growth of the Fruits of the Holy Spirit; certain habits that we haven't quite given up–the little foxes that spoil our branch so it rots and falls from the Vine and thus bears no more fruit; the most terrible weight of what we feel is unforgiven sin; the grievous weight of an anxious heart that cannot trust its journey to the Captain; a human affection that seems so innocent–indeed, it may be–but it overrides our love for God; the weight of society's mores, known as greed, versus God's mores, known as principles; and the constant need for distraction and noise that kill noble motives and pusuits.

Our backs and hearts are breaking from the weight of the world. Jesus begs us, "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.. for my yoke is easy and my burden is light" Matthew 11:28,30; "Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with. . .the anxieties of life" Luke 21:34.

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... the most terrible weight of what we feel is unforgiven sin; the grievous weight of an anxious heart that cannot trust its journey to the Captain...

 

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~ Terrified of God ~ 

H. G. Wells was no friend of the church, but sometimes he served us well. Years ago in the New Yorker, he told a story about an Episcopalian clergyman. (He could have told it about a preacher from any denomination.) This Episcopalian bishop was the kind of man who always said pious things to people. When troubled folks came to him, he found that a particularly helpful thing to say, if said in a right tone of voice, was, "Have you prayed about it?" If said in just the right way, it seemed to settle things. 

The bishop himself didn't pray much; he had life wrapped up in a neat package. But one day life tumbled in on him, and he found himself overwhelmed. It occurred to the bishop that maybe he should take some of his own advice. So, one Saturday afternoon he entered the cathedral, went to the front, and knelt on the crimson rug. Then he folded his hands before the altar (he could not help but think how childlike he was). 

Then he began to pray. He said, "O God--" and suddenly there was a voice. It was crisp, businesslike. The voice said, "Well, what is it?" 
Next day when the worshipers came to Sunday services, they found the bishop sprawled face down on the crimson carpet. When they turned him over, they discovered he was dead. Lines of horror were etched upon his face. What H. G. Wells was saying in that story is simply this: there are folks who talk a lot about God who would be scared to death if they saw him face to face. 

— Haddon Robinson, "Good Guys, Bad Guys, and Us Guys," Preaching Today, Tape No. 80. 

 

 Who is among you that fears the LORD, That obeys the voice of His servant, That walks in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the name of the LORD and rely on his God.

ISA 50:10 (NASB)

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