Monday, March 18, 2024

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Our love for the Lord seems so small and feeble compared to His love for us. To His own He says that “I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with loving-kindness have I drawn thee,” and “God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” He “who is rich in mercy, for His great love wherewith He loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved),” and now, being redeemed, we have “the love of God … shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.” But little as our love may seem compared to His, we do “love Him, because He first loved us,” and we say with David, “I will love Thee, O Lord, my strength.” “For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: and that He died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto Him which died for them, and rose again,” and “eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him.” Our Lord said, “If ye love Me, keep My commandments.” “Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity.”
“We love Him because … He loved us,”
And gave His live to prove so;
“The love of Christ constraineth us”
To take the place that is low.
1 John 4:19 ~ Jeremiah 31:3 ~ Romans 5:8 ~ Ephesians 2:4‑5 ~ Romans 5:5 ~ Psalm 18:1 ~ 2 Corinthians 5:14‑15 ~ 1 Corinthians 2:9 ~ John 14:15 ~ Ephesians 6:24
             
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Sunday, March 17, 2024

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God wants His children to be different from those who do not know Him, “that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,” and “our Lord Jesus Christ … gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father.” God has told His children to “have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.” “What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?” “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?” “Be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the Lord,” “as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance,” and “be not ye therefore like unto them,” “but as He which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation.” For “our Savior Jesus Christ … gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto Himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.”
God wants our lives to be different
From those who know Him not,
“Transformed by … renewing of … mind”
That His name we may not blot.
Romans 12:2 ~ Ephesians 4:17 ~ Galatians 1:3‑4 ~ Ephesians 5:11 ~ Romans 6:1‑2 ~ 1 Corinthians 3:16 ~ Isaiah 52:11 ~ 1 Peter 1:14 ~ Matthew 6:8 ~ 1 Peter 1:15 ~ Titus 2:13‑14
             
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Saturday, March 16, 2024

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When God looks upon His redeemed people, He does not look for success or wealth or fame or popularity with men. Rather, He looks for Christ-likeness in our lives, that Christ-likeness of life and character which comes to us as we look upon Christ as He is revealed in the Word of God, “with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord.” God’s ultimate purpose for the saved is that we may be “conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren,” and “we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is,” “and as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.” So in our lives now, God desires to impart “the meekness and gentleness of Christ,” who is “meek and lowly in heart.” “For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ,” enabling us to “show forth the praises of Him who hath called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.”
Called to reflect the Lord Jesus,
And called to show forth His praise,
Called to behold Him in His Word,
And walk with Him all our days.
2 Corinthians 3:18 ~ Romans 8:29 ~ 1 John 3:2 ~ 1 Corinthians 15:49 ~ 2 Corinthians 10:1 ~ Matthew 11:29 ~ 2 Corinthians 4:6 ~ 1 Peter 2:9
             
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Friday, March 15, 2024

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Where is “the Spirit of the Lord” in this present day? For “where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” He is in us who have believed on Christ as Savior, all of us. “What! Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?” This is in fulfillment of our Lord’s promise that “I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you forever; even the Spirit of truth,” and “if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His.” And the Spirit in us gives us “liberty,” even freedom from sin’s dominion, from the yoke of the law, and from self-centeredness. “Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.” “Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.” Our Lord Jesus said that “if ye continue in My word, then are ye My disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” “But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumbling-block to them that are weak.”
Liberty to serve the Lord,
Liberty to live for Him,
Made free by His redemption
From the dominion of sin.
2 Corinthians 3:17 ~ 1 Corinthians 6:19 ~ John 14:16‑17 ~ Romans 8:9 ~ Romans 6:18 ~ Galatians 5:1 ~ John 8:31‑32 ~ 1 Corinthians 8:9
             
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Thursday, March 14, 2024

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Every true Christian has the potential, and also the responsibility, to “comfort” and to “edify” other Christians, both by word and life. We are told to “consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works,” and to “exhort one another daily, while it is called Today; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.” “Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others,” “submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.” “Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers,” “for, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another,” “that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.” “Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another; … be pitiful, be courteous.” “Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus.”
How can I help my dear brother,
Who is bowed beneath his load?
I can speak a word of comfort,
Instead of a word to goad.
1 Thessalonians 5:11 ~ Hebrews 10:24 ~ Hebrews 3:13 ~ Philippians 2:3‑4 ~ Ephesians 5:21 ~ Ephesians 4:29 ~ Galatians 5:13 ~ 1 Corinthians 4:6 ~ 1 Peter 3:8 ~ Romans 15:5
             
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Wednesday, March 13, 2024

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Genuine love (charity) is both long-suffering and kind. It “is kind” in the times when it “suffereth long,” for genuine love in the Christian’s heart is “the love of God … shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us”; it is “love in the Spirit.” God’s love, though tested and tried and trampled on by men, still is both long-suffering and kind, “for He is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil,” “He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness.” “Thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness.” “Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children, and walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us,” “and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you,” “with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love.” We are called upon to manifest our Lord to others “by pureness, by knowledge, by long-suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned.” “Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honor preferring one another.”
We ought long-suffering to be,
And kind while we are at it;
It takes God’s grace to make us so;
He alone can make us fit.
1 Corinthians 13:4 ~ Romans 5:5 ~ Colossians 1:8 ~ Luke 6:35 ~ Joel 2:13 ~ Jonah 4:2 ~ Ephesians 5:1‑2 ~ Ephesians 4:32 ~ Ephesians 4:2 ~ 2 Corinthians 6:6 ~ Romans 12:10
             
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Tuesday, March 12, 2024

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In all our service and witness for the Lord, let us remember that if it is to count for Him, it must be “according to His working, which worketh in me mightily.” It cannot and must not be by human strength or wisdom. Nevertheless, our whole heart must be in it, for “I also labor, striving according to His working,” “for it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure.” He does His work in our hearts and directs and empowers our service by His Word. Thus Paul wrote to the Thessalonians that “for this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.” “How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?” “If a man therefore purge himself … he shall be a vessel unto honor, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work,” “fervent in spirit; serving the Lord.”
If we would be pleasing to Him
In all our works and our ways,
We must draw grace from Him each hour;
His strength will be as our days.
Colossians 1:29 ~ Philippians 2:13 ~ 1 Thessalonians 2:13 ~ Hebrews 9:14 ~ 2 Timothy 2:21 ~ Romans 12:11
             
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Monday, March 11, 2024

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These words were written at the Old Testament end-time, when men were saying “it is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept His ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts? And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.” How very much like the age-end days in which we live. But “they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard … them … that thought upon His name.” He has promised us that “where two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them,” and He has told us to “consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works.” He will help us to “know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary.” “Let us therefore follow after the things … wherewith one may edify another.” The Lord is listening, and “consider how great things He hath done for you.” “If there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.”
The Lord sees those who think on Him,
And remembers them above;
“My thoughts within me” give comfort,
As I think upon His love.
Malachi 3:16 ~ Malachi 3:14‑15 ~ Matthew 18:20 ~ Hebrews 10:24 ~ Isaiah 50:4 ~ Romans 14:19 ~ 1 Samuel 12:24 ~ Philippians 4:8
             
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Sunday, March 10, 2024

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Though we cannot always tell about the salvation of others, “the Lord knoweth them that are His.” He has said that “I am the good Shepherd, and know My sheep, and am known of Mine,” and “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.” “But if any man love God, the same is known of Him.” It is written of some that “they profess that they know God; but in works they deny Him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.” “Who is on the Lord’s side?” “Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.” “But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth: and some to honor, and some to dishonor. If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honor, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work.” God wants us to be “as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance.” “For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.”
“I … know My sheep,” the Shepherd says,
And I “am known of Mine”;
They “hear My voice … and … follow Me”;
They show Me to mankind.
2 Timothy 2:19 ~ John 10:14 ~ John 10:27 ~ 1 Corinthians 8:3 ~ Titus 1:16 ~ Exodus 32:26 ~ 2 Timothy 2:19‑21 ~ 1 Peter 1:14 ~ Psalm 1:6
             
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Saturday, March 9, 2024

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“Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?” “It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.” Let us who know the Lord not be like Simon the sorcerer, “giving out that himself was some great one,” but rather remember the words of our Savior, that “whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; and whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant: even as the Son of Man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give His life a ransom for many.” Not only are we not to praise ourselves, but when we receive any praise from others we are not to “be puffed up for one against another. … For … what hast thou that thou didst not receive?” “Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.” “They measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.” “For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.”
By God’s grace “am what I am,”
“For … in me … is … no good thing,”
But He in wonderful mercy
All good through our Lord did bring.
Proverbs 27:2 ~ Proverbs 20:6 ~ Proverbs 25:27 ~ Acts 8:9 ~ Matthew 20:26‑28 ~ 1 Corinthians 4:6‑7 ~ 1 Corinthians 4:5 ~ 2 Corinthians 10:12 ~ 2 Corinthians 10:18
             
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