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March 2025

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Monday, March 31, 2025

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What is the believer to do in a day of lawlessness and apostasy such as we face today, when “judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off,” when “truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter”? It is a day when “evil men and seducers ... wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived,” and when “he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey.” Our Lord warned that “because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.” Can we believers live for the glory of Christ in such days? Yes, His grace is sufficient, and more than sufficient. Recall that before the flood, when “the wickedness of man was great in the earth,” when “every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually,” in that dark day, “Noah walked with God,” and Enoch “had this testimony, that he pleased God.” Let us, as they did, take grace from God, “and be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God.”
Walk with God, when all around
Darkness and evil prevail?
Yes, strong in grace, looking to Him,
The Christ, who will never fail.
Psalm 12:1 ~ Isaiah 59:14 ~ 2 Timothy 3:13 ~ Isaiah 59:15 ~ Matthew 24:12 ~ Genesis 6:5 ~ Genesis 6:9 ~ Hebrews 11:5 ~ Romans 12:2

Sunday, March 30, 2025

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The world and nominal Christendom has a saying that God helps those who help themselves. But there are many times when we cannot help ourselves, when “the journey is too great for thee.” But in such times, “He knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness,” and how blessed and encouraging it is to know that “He shall deliver ... him that hath no helper.” So, when “trouble is near [and] there is none to help,” and when we cry to Him to “give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man,” we can be sure that though “I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me,” and “He shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper,” for “He forgetteth not the cry of the humble,” and “the poor committeth himself to Thee; Thou art the helper of the fatherless.” “He shall judge the poor of the people, He shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.” “The Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear Him, in those that hope in His mercy.”
Weary, sad and discouraged,
With no help to be found in man,
We cry to Him who loves us,
And “upholdeth ... with His hand.”
Psalm 72:12 ~ 1 Kings 19:7 ~ Deuteronomy 2:7 ~ Psalm 22:11 ~ Psalm 60:11 ~ Psalm 40:17 ~ Psalm 9:12 ~ Psalm 10:14 ~ Psalm 72:4 ~ Psalm 147:11

Saturday, March 29, 2025

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God desires for His children that “the peace of God rule in your hearts.” The word “rule” means to “act as umpire” or “arbitrate,” that is, to make the decisions: to direct and control our lives. Most of us know that any decisions made when our hearts were not filled with God’s peace have been wrong and hurtful decisions. We continually need in our hearts “the peace of God.” “Be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.” For “the Lord will give strength unto His people; the Lord will bless His people with peace.” “For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.” “Lord, Thou wilt ordain peace for us: for Thou also hast wrought all our works in us.” “Happy is the man that findeth wisdom. ... Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.” “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee: because he trusteth in Thee.” “Now the peace of God be with you all. Amen.”
“Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace,
Whose mind is stayed on Thee”;
In all the ins and outs of life,
Peace shall his portion be.
Colossians 3:15 ~ Philippians 4:6‑7 ~ Psalm 29:11 ~ Romans 8:6 ~ Isaiah 26:12 ~ Proverbs 3:13 ~ Proverbs 3:17 ~ Isaiah 26:3 ~ Romans 15:33

Friday, March 28, 2025

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The word “moderation” carries the thought of reasonableness, considerateness, gentleness and forbearance, which we who know the Lord are to exercise because “the Lord is at hand.” We are “looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ,” “and every man that hath this hope in Him purifieth himself, even as He is pure.” We are therefore to be “gentle, showing all meekness unto all men,” “with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love.” “Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children,” “for He maketh His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.” “Now I ... beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ” to “let us consider one another,” and “rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep,” and “be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient; in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth.” “Let your moderation be known unto all men,” for “we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.”
Gentle and meek and forbearing,
God would have His people be,
Looking “on the things of others,”
Living for eternity.
Philippians 4:5 ~ Titus 2:13 ~ 1 John 3:3 ~ Titus 3:2 ~ Ephesians 4:2 ~ Ephesians 5:1 ~ Matthew 5:45 ~ 2 Corinthians 10:1 ~ Hebrews 10:24 ~ Romans 12:15 ~ 2 Timothy 2:24‑25 ~ Philippians 3:20

Thursday, March 27, 2025

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“The word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” “Is not My word like as a fire? saith the Lord; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?” Who can measure the worth of the Word of God in the life of the Christian? “Concerning the works of men, by the word of Thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.” “I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep Thy word.” God tells His own to “take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.” “The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever: the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. Moreover by them is Thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.” “I have rejoiced in the way of Thy testimonies, as much as in all riches. I will meditate in Thy precepts, and have respect unto Thy ways. I will delight myself in Thy statutes: I will not forget Thy word.”
The Word of God gives joy and peace
To those whose ways it directs,
Cleansing and comfort and new strength,
Help beyond what we expect.
Micah 2:7 ~ Hebrews 4:12 ~ Jeremiah 23:29 ~ Psalm 17:4 ~ Psalm 119:101 ~ Ephesians 6:17 ~ Psalm 19:9‑11 ~ Psalm 119:14‑16

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

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“Face to face.” What will it mean when we see Him, “whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see Him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory.” That One who has so graciously sustained us through life’s pilgrimage, who, looking down from heaven, invites us to “come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.” That One who “hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.” That One who has stood by us in times of grief and trial and pain, telling us to “fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of My righteousness.” That One “who His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree.” That One who “calleth His own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.” We shall see Him “face to face,” and as He did with Moses, He shall speak with us “face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend.”
When we see Him in the glory,
When our faith has been changed to sight,
Hearts will be gladdened forever,
In the realms of eternal light.
1 Corinthians 13:12 ~ 1 Peter 1:8 ~ Hebrews 4:16 ~ Psalm 103:10 ~ Isaiah 41:10 ~ 1 Peter 2:24 ~ John 10:3 ~ Exodus 33:11

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

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To “abide in” Christ is to “stay” or “remain” or “continue” in fellowship with Him. It is to be “casting all your care upon Him,” to “trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding,” and to “confess our sins,” knowing that “He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” When we thus “abide in” Him, “ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.” Thus abiding, we will not “ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.” We will, rather, ask in His name, seeking His will and His glory, and His promise is that “whatsoever ye shall ask in My name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask anything in My name, I will do it.” “And whatsoever we ask, we receive of Him, because we keep His commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in His sight.” “And this is the confidence that we have in Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He heareth us: and if we know that He hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of Him.”
He hears the prayers of all His own,
And bends His ear to their cries,
He knows their burdens and their cares,
And He heareth all their sighs.
John 15:7 ~ 1 Peter 5:7 ~ Proverbs 3:5 ~ 1 John 1:9 ~ John 15:7 ~ James 4:3 ~ John 14:13‑14 ~ 1 John 3:22 ~ 1 John 5:14‑15

Monday, March 24, 2025

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How much the Christian needs the upholding and overruling grace of God, to “keep thy foot from being taken.” The world, the flesh, and the devil constantly seek to ensnare us and cause our feet to go astray out of God’s paths. He tells us to “ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established. Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil,” for He assures us who seek to walk with Him, “I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths. When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straightened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.” “For He shall give His angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.” “He will keep the feet of His saints,” and “thou shalt walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble.” “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.” “The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.” “Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.” “For Thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not Thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?”
He alone can direct my steps
In the way they ought to go,
To keep from the snares of Satan,
All because He loves me so.
Proverbs 3:26 ~ Proverbs 4:26‑27 ~ Proverbs 4:11‑12 ~ Psalm 91:11‑12 ~ 1 Samuel 2:9 ~ Proverbs 3:23 ~ Psalm 119:105 ~ Psalm 37:31 ~ Psalm 18:36 ~ Psalm 56:13

Sunday, March 23, 2025

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We Christians have the same kind of unredeemed bodies as unsaved people have. To be sure, “your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own.” Nevertheless, we still have mortal death-doomed bodies, subject to injury and disease and aging. “For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body,” and “if the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by His Spirit that dwelleth in you.” “For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.” So “we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ: who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body,” and “in my flesh shall I see God: whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another.”
We live now in tents of clay,
Mortal and very frail,
But we live in hope each day,
Here below in this vale.
Romans 8:10 ~ 1 Corinthians 6:19 ~ Romans 8:22‑23 ~ Romans 8:11 ~ 1 Corinthians 15:53 ~ Philippians 3:20‑21 ~ Job 19:26‑27

Saturday, March 22, 2025

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There are certain things that are essential, if we are to be saved. There are things which are absolutely necessary; they cannot be dispensed with. First, there must be a Savior “without sin.” This we have in God’s beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, “who did no sin,” “who knew no sin,” “and in Him is no sin.” Even so, His holiness and sinlessness cannot in itself save us, for “without shedding of blood is no remission.” It was necessary that He give that sinless life for us, that we might be “redeemed ... with the precious blood of Christ, as of a Lamb without blemish and without spot.” Then, though He died for all, forgiveness must be personally received, and here we have another essential, namely, faith. “Without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.” Be sure, dear reader, that you have personally received “the gift of God [which] is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord,” who said that “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me.”
He shed His blood for your sins,
That you might forgiven be,
That you might know and praise Him
Throughout all eternity.
Hebrews 4:15 ~ 1 Peter 2:22 ~ 2 Corinthians 5:21 ~ 1 John 3:5 ~ Hebrews 9:22 ~ 1 Peter 1:18‑19 ~ Hebrews 11:6 ~ Romans 6:23 ~ John 14:6

Friday, March 21, 2025

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“Thy mercy, O Lord, is in the heavens; and Thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds,” “all Thy commandments are faithful,” and “God is true” and worthy of all our confidence and trust. “God is not a man, that He should lie; neither the son of man, that He should repent: hath He said, and shall He not do it? or hath He spoken, and shall He not make it good?” “There hath no temptation taken you, but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.” But suppose that we who know Him do not take His “way to escape,” and we yield to the temptation? Even “if we believe not, yet He abideth faithful: He cannot deny Himself.” And “if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” This “God, that cannot lie, promised.” “But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.” “The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand forever.” “It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is Thy faithfulness.”
He is faithful and true to His Word,
Our God in heaven above;
His ways are tempered with kindness;
His dealings are all in love.
Zephaniah 3:5 ~ Psalm 36:5 ~ Psalm 119:86 ~ 2 Corinthians 1:18 ~ Numbers 23:19 ~ 1 Corinthians 10:13 ~ 2 Timothy 2:13 ~ 1 John 1:9 ~ Titus 1:2 ~ 2 Thessalonians 3:3 ~ Isaiah 40:8 ~ Lamentations 3:22‑23

Thursday, March 20, 2025

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From start to finish, our “salvation is of the Lord.” He died for us on the cross, he lives for us in heaven, and He is coming to receive us unto Himself. “Christ died for our sins.” “For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God,” for “all we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all.” Yes, “Christ ... died, yea rather ... is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.” He has “entered into ... heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us.” “Wherefore He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them.” And we have His sure promise that “if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto Myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.” “Salvation belongeth unto the Lord: Thy blessing is upon Thy people.”
His blood has washed away my sins,
And now He liveth for me,
And He shall come to take me home,
Forever with Him to be.
1 Corinthians 15:3 ~ Hebrews 9:24 ~ Philippians 3:20‑21 ~ Jonah 2:9 ~ 1 Peter 3:18 ~ Isaiah 53:6 ~ Romans 8:34 ~ Hebrews 7:25 ~ John 14:3 ~ Psalm 3:8

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

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God desires for His children that we “walk worthy of the Lord” in our daily deportment, being “fruitful ... and increasing in the knowledge of God.” A yielded “walk” with the Lord will cause us to be “fruitful” and to hunger for an “increasing ... knowledge of God.” “Walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love.” “We also should walk in newness of life,” “worthy of God, who hath called you unto His kingdom and glory,” “being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.” Such a Christian will “be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.” Our Lord said that “herein is My Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be My disciples.” A disciple is a learner, and the fruitful Christian will be “increasing in the knowledge of God.” “Grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,” and “desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby.”
A walk that shows that we know Him,
And fruit borne for His glory,
An “increasing ... knowledge of God,”
Tell forth the blessed story.
Colossians 1:10 ~ Ephesians 4:1‑2 ~ Romans 6:4 ~ 1 Thessalonians 2:12 ~ Philippians 1:11 ~ Psalm 1:3 ~ John 15:8 ~ 2 Peter 3:18 ~ 1 Peter 2:2

Tuesday, March 18, 2025

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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

Monday, March 17, 2025

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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

Sunday, March 16, 2025

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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

Saturday, March 15, 2025

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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

Friday, March 14, 2025

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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

Thursday, March 13, 2025

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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

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

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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

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

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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

Monday, March 10, 2025

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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

Sunday, March 9, 2025

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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

Saturday, March 8, 2025

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How easy it is for the true Christian to become “weary in well doing.” When Paul wrote the above words to the Thessalonians, there were those among them who were “working not at all, but are busybodies,” to whom he said that “them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.” These were taking advantage of the kindness and generosity of other believers, to whom he says that they are to “be not weary in well doing.” Even though, as we seek to obey and honor the Lord, people take advantage of us, still he says, “Be not weary in well doing.” Though we may see little apparent results from our Christian witness, “be not weary in well doing.” Though our efforts to honor our Lord are not appreciated, “be not weary in well doing.” “For consider Him that endured such contradiction of sinners against Himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.” “Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be rewarded.” He will “cause the weary to rest” in Himself. “And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.”
Weary and worn, and discouraged,
We ask, “Is it all worthwhile?”
But all the pangs of the journey
Will fade when we see His smile.
2 Thessalonians 3:13 ~ 2 Thessalonians 3:11‑12 ~ Hebrews 12:3 ~ 2 Chronicles 15:7 ~ Isaiah 28:12 ~ Galatians 6:9

Friday, March 7, 2025

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Peter wrote his first epistle to those “elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ,” and thus to all of us who “obey ... the gospel of God” and are “washed ... from our sins in His own blood.” And he says of us that we “are built up ... a holy priesthood.” Every Christian as a believer-priest has the right to go directly into the presence of God. We need no earthly mediator, no human priest, “for there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.” We who know Him “are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of Him who hath called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.” And when we are with Him in the glory we shall sing “a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for Thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by Thy blood ... and hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.”
I have the right to go to Him,
Unworthy though I be,
For God has bid me come to Him,
Through Him who died for me.
1 Peter 2:5 ~ 1 Peter 1:2 ~ 1 Peter 4:17 ~ Revelation 1:5 ~ 1 Timothy 2:5 ~ 1 Peter 2:9 ~ Revelation 5:9‑10

Thursday, March 6, 2025

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These were the words spoken to the prophet Jeremiah by the Jewish remnant left in the land of Israel after the king of Babylon had destroyed Jerusalem. They had come to him and said, “Pray for us unto the Lord thy God ... that the Lord may show us the way wherein we may walk, and the thing that we may do.” Jeremiah faithfully gave them the words of the Lord, and their response was that “we will not hearken unto thee. But we will do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth.” What a dangerous thing it is for the believer to hear and know God’s Word and not obey it. The Lord said to Ezekiel about the people of his day that “they sit before thee as My people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.” The Lord desires that we, by the power of His Word, “be renewed in the spirit of your mind,” “and be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God.”
God’s Word is to be obeyed
And not lightly esteemed;
It gives light, joy and gladness
Beyond our fondest dreams.
Jeremiah 44:16‑17 ~ Jeremiah 42:2‑3 ~ Ezekiel 33:31 ~ Ephesians 4:23 ~ Romans 12:2

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

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“Examine me, O Lord, and prove me; try my reins and my heart,” “for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.” “The Lord is in His holy temple, the Lord’s throne is in heaven: His eyes behold, His eyelids try, the children of men. The Lord trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence His soul hateth.” It is not a light thing to truthfully ask the Lord to “let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in Thy sight,” but it is a most needful thing, and a thing that will bring great blessing. Elsewhere the Lord tells us that “the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.” “Thou hast proved mine heart; Thou hast visited me in the night; Thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress,” “for there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, Thou knowest it altogether.” “I will meditate in Thy precepts, and have respect unto Thy ways.”
I want my life to honor Him,
Who gave Himself for me,
“The meditation of my heart”
To pure and faithful be.
Psalm 19:14 ~ Psalm 26:2 ~ Psalm 7:9 ~ Psalm 11:4‑5 ~ Jeremiah 17:9‑10 ~ Psalm 17:3 ~ Psalm 139:4 ~ Psalm 119:15

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

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The Christian who wants to please and honor the Lord must ponder his words, for “in the multitude of words there wanteth not sin.” “Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter anything before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.” So “foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes,” remembering that “a fool’s voice is known by multitude of words.” Therefore “let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man,” and “if thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, lay thine hand upon thy mouth.” “Should a man full of talk be justified?” “He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.” We should be sure that our speech “is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers,” and is “neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.” So let us “be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear.”
Our speech tells others what we are,
And what is within our heart,
So let it “be always with grace,”
That it may blessing impart.
Proverbs 15:28 ~ Proverbs 10:19 ~ Ecclesiastes 5:2 ~ 2 Timothy 2:23 ~ Ecclesiastes 5:3 ~ Colossians 4:6 ~ Proverbs 30:32 ~ Job 11:2 ~ Proverbs 17:27 ~ Ephesians 4:29 ~ Ephesians 5:4 ~ 1 Peter 3:15

Monday, March 3, 2025

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The God-breathed Scriptures, having come to us as “holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost,” are “profitable” to the Christian “for doctrine,” that is, for teaching. If we would walk in the world by the teachings of God’s Word, then we must know what these teachings are. This necessitates that we “search the Scriptures” like the Bereans who “received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the Scriptures daily.” Then we shall say with the psalmist, “How sweet are Thy words unto my taste! Yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth.” But God’s Word will also bring “reproof” or conviction to our hearts, causing us pain as “we ... judge ourselves, [that] we should not be judged.” And the Word rightfully received brings “correction.” With the psalmist we say, “I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto Thy testimonies.” It also brings “instruction in righteousness,” for “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path,” and “the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.”
More precious than gold is God’s Word;
It gives me strength for my way,
Teaching, convicting, correcting,
And guiding my steps each day.
2 Timothy 3:16‑17 ~ 2 Peter 1:21 ~ John 5:39 ~ Acts 17:11 ~ Psalm 119:103 ~ 1 Corinthians 11:31 ~ Psalm 119:59 ~ Psalm 119:105 ~ Psalm 19:7

Sunday, March 2, 2025

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It is often true “that in a great trial of affliction” the Christian finds his joy in the Lord reaching the highest level. Like Paul who testified “that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life: but we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead,” and “as chastened, and not killed; as sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing,” we find our joy in Him greater because of His mercy and faithfulness to us in the hour of trial. With the psalmist we can say that “I love the Lord, because He hath heard my voice and my supplications. ... I found trouble and sorrow. Then called I upon the name of the Lord; O Lord, I beseech Thee, deliver my soul. Gracious is the Lord, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful. ... I was brought low, and He helped me.” It was when the psalmist was “mourning because of the oppression of the enemy” that he spoke of “God my exceeding joy.” When your circumstances give you no ground for joy, then remember that “the joy of the Lord is your strength.”
When all about us is dimness,
And the clouds overshadow the sun,
Remember that God in His mercy
Will give needed help to His own.
2 Corinthians 8:2 ~ 2 Corinthians 1:8‑9 ~ 2 Corinthians 6:9‑10 ~ Psalm 116:1 ~ Psalm 116:4‑6 ~ Psalm 43:2 ~ Psalm 43:4 ~ Nehemiah 8:10

Saturday, March 1, 2025

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“Through the knowledge of Him that hath called us to glory and virtue,” or, who “hath called us by His glory and virtue,” our Lord Jesus Christ, we have “all things that pertain unto life and godliness.” “In Him was life; and the life was the light of men,” and the Father has “given Him power over all flesh, that He should give eternal life,” and “he that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life,” “for in Him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in Him, which is the head of all principality and power,” and “in Him” we have all that we need to “live godly in Christ Jesus” and to “show forth the praises of Him who hath called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.” “And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work.” “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ” and who “is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think.”
All that we need to live for Him
He has so freely supplied
That we might in this present world
Stand firm with Him at our side.
2 Peter 1:3 ~ John 1:4 ~ John 17:2 ~ 1 John 5:12 ~ Colossians 2:9‑10 ~ 2 Timothy 3:12 ~ 1 Peter 2:9 ~ 2 Corinthians 9:8 ~ Ephesians 1:3 ~ Ephesians 3:20
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