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July 2025

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Thursday, July 31, 2025

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Of the men that “came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him,” were these fifty thousand of the tribe of Zebulon, “which could keep rank: they were not of double heart.” What a lesson for us Christians who are engaged in warfare with Satan and his host of evil spirits, “that thou ... mightest war a good warfare.” Zebulon’s hosts were “expert in war, with all instruments of war,” even as we are exhorted to “put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” So we need “the whole armor of God”; we need “all instruments of war” which He has provided for us. And as we use them, let us “keep rank,” each one in the place of God’s assignment, without jealousy, criticism or hurt feelings toward others. And let us not be “of double heart,” for “a double minded man is unstable in all his ways,” and “no man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please Him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.”
With our eyes upon our Captain,
We go forth to fight the foe,
Clothed with “the whole armor of God,”
To have victory, we know.
1 Chronicles 12:33 ~ 1 Chronicles 12:23 ~ 1 Timothy 1:18 ~ Ephesians 6:11‑12 ~ James 1:8 ~ 2 Timothy 2:4

Wednesday, July 30, 2025

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Often in our prayer lives we are made aware that “we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit Itself,” who is all wise, looks into our hearts and into the hearts of those for whom we pray and “Itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And He that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because He maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.” Sometimes, as we remember our own sins and failures, we have to say with Ezra that “I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to Thee, my God.” And many times as we think of the hardheartedness and unconcern of those for whom we pray and of situations “which are impossible with men,” how good to remember that He, “the Spirit ... maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.” So let us not be discouraged as we pray. Rather, “trust in Him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before Him: God is a refuge for us,” and “the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities.”
We’re led along by the Spirit,
Pouring out our hearts to God;
He Himself helpeth our weakness,
Helping us to bear our load.
Romans 8:26 ~ Romans 8:26‑27 ~ Ezra 9:6 ~ Luke 18:27 ~ Psalm 62:8

Tuesday, July 29, 2025

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There is no such thing as a standstill in a Christian’s life. We are either gaining ground or losing ground. We are not speaking of our salvation in Christ, for that is eternal and can never be changed or altered. Every true believer is indwelt by “the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.” But in our daily life and walk, we are either going forward or backward. “Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness. But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” “Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on Him, 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.” So, “as newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby,” “that ye henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine ... but speaking the truth in love, may grow up into Him in all things, which is the head, even Christ.”
Are we going along with our Lord,
Feeding on His Word each day?
Growing stronger as we follow,
Seeking to walk in His way?
2 Peter 3:18 ~ Ephesians 4:30 ~ 2 Peter 3:17‑18 ~ John 8:31‑32 ~ 1 Peter 2:2 ~ Ephesians 4:14‑15

Monday, July 28, 2025

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Our verse does not say that our Lord Jesus Christ “was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sinning”; rather, it says, “Yet without sin.” He had no indwelling sin, such as we have. God takes great care in His Word to tell us of the absolute purity and impeccability of His Son. Not only did our Lord not sin, He could not sin, “for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth He any man” to do evil. It may be argued that since our Lord was both God and man, the manward side could sin though the Godward side could not. But we cannot thus separate our Lord’s nature, for He is “God ... manifest in the flesh.” The law could not save or deliver from sin, but “God sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh.” When gold is refined or tested by fire, the dross or impurities come to the top, but when pure gold is tested, there is no dross to come forth. So it was with our Lord in His temptations, and now He is “touched with the feeling of our infirmities. ... Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.”
A high priest touched by all our need,
With mercy and grace in store,
He bids us come to meet Him there,
Where grace He gives us, and more.
Hebrews 4:15 ~ James 1:13 ~ 1 Timothy 3:16 ~ Romans 8:3 ~ Hebrews 4:15‑16

Sunday, July 27, 2025

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“All things are yours; whether ... the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; and ye are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s.” The true believer in Christ is rich indeed, “blessed ... with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ” and possessing all “the unsearchable riches of Christ.” “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,” “according as His divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him that hath called us to glory and virtue: whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises.” Though “blessed with all,” we often live in spiritual poverty, because we do not claim His “exceeding great and precious promises,” which must be personally appropriated, for “every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours.” It is through His “exceeding great and precious promises” that we are, in our lives, made “partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.” “Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life.”
“Blessed with all,” yet living daily
In poverty of the soul,
Eating fragments from His table,
When we might enjoy the whole.
Ephesians 1:3 ~ 1 Corinthians 3:21‑23 ~ Ephesians 3:8 ~ 2 Corinthians 9:8 ~ 2 Peter 1:3‑4 ~ Deuteronomy 11:24 ~ 1 Timothy 6:12

Saturday, July 26, 2025

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“Your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: whom resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.” “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you,” “for we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand,” for our Lord on the cross “having spoiled principalities and powers ... made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.” We need to keep our eyes closely upon the Lord Jesus, “lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices,” remembering our Lord’s words to Peter, but so applicable to us, that “Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: but I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not.”
The fight between God and Satan
Is over the hearts of men;
We who know Christ have victory,
Being freed from claims of sin.
2 Chronicles 16:9 ~ 1 Peter 5:8‑9 ~ James 4:7 ~ Ephesians 6:12‑13 ~ Colossians 2:15 ~ 2 Corinthians 2:11 ~ Luke 22:31‑32

Friday, July 25, 2025

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The Lord has designed that His people be a testimony unto Him, whether it be His earthly people Israel in the Old Testament or the church of the New Testament, His heavenly people, “that they might be unto Me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory.” Our Lord 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,” and “thou art a holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto Himself.” Thus “ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ... written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart,” and so we “have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but, by manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.” Be intent on “having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.” Thus shall you “show forth the praises of Him who hath called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.”
Our lives a witness ought to be
Of His mercy and His grace,
That others might see Him in us,
And thus long to seek His face.
Isaiah 43:21 ~ Jeremiah 13:11 ~ Titus 2:14 ~ Deuteronomy 14:2 ~ 2 Corinthians 3:3 ~ 2 Corinthians 4:2 ~ 1 Peter 2:12 ~ 1 Peter 2:9

Thursday, July 24, 2025

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The Lord has stored up His goodness “for them that trust in [Him] before the sons of men.” “Thou shalt hide them in the secret of Thy presence from the pride of man: Thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.” Graciously “He performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with Him,” and “since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside Thee, what He hath prepared for him that waiteth for Him.” “Thou, O God, hast prepared of Thy goodness for the poor.” “Many, O Lord my God, are Thy wonderful works which Thou hast done, and Thy thoughts which are to usward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto Thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.” And all this is for “them that trust in Thee before the sons of men,” those who are willing, if need be, to “be reproached for the name of Christ,” those who are willing “to go forth therefore unto Him without the camp, bearing His reproach.” So “blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation.”
Great is the goodness of the Lord,
To those who fear His great name;
Good things He has prepared for them,
He who is ever the same.
Psalm 31:19 ~ Psalm 31:20 ~ Job 23:14 ~ Isaiah 64:4 ~ Psalm 68:10 ~ Psalm 40:5 ~ 1 Peter 4:14 ~ Hebrews 13:13 ~ Psalm 68:19

Wednesday, July 23, 2025

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The Lord will not give His glory to another, whether it be “graven images” or whether it be some man, even a Christian. Any service truly done for Him is “not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.” We can only glorify Him as we abide in and thus draw spiritual strength from Him who said that “as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in Me.” So “where is boasting then? It is excluded.” For a Christian to boast of his labors and accomplishments for the Lord is no less “the pride of life” than for a rich man to boast of his riches. Sad to say, many Christians fail to “give unto the Lord the glory due unto His name.” There are preachers who, instead of “being ensamples to the flock,” are “being lords over God’s heritage” and trying to build a little kingdom around themselves, like “Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them.” The Lord says that “My glory will I not give to another,” and “for Mine own sake, even for Mine own sake, will I do it: for how should My name be polluted? And I will not give My glory unto another.” “We have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.”
Have you done some service for Him,
And that by His help and aid?
Would the flesh glory about this,
As if by you it was made?
Isaiah 42:8 ~ Zechariah 4:6 ~ John 15:4 ~ Romans 3:27 ~ 1 John 2:16 ~ Psalm 29:2 ~ 1 Peter 5:3 ~ 3 John 9 ~ Isaiah 48:11 ~ 2 Corinthians 4:7

Tuesday, July 22, 2025

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There are many voices today claiming knowledge in the things of God. Some speak of so-called visions, others claim to have power to heal, still others speak of experiences. How shall we discern what is right and what is wrong? How may we obey the Scripture to “prove all things; hold fast that which is good”? Is there a standard by which we may measure spiritual things? Indeed there is such a standard, and it is the Word of God, and “if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.” “Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God.” Not only does the Holy Spirit confess “that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh,” that “God was manifest in the flesh,” He also turns our hearts and affections to Christ and not to Himself, even as our Lord Jesus Christ said of the Holy Spirit that “He shall not speak of Himself; but ... He shall glorify Me: for He shall receive of Mine, and shall show it unto you.” Examine every teaching that comes your way by “the law” and “the testimony.” Does it exalt an experience, a man, or self? It should exalt only Him, our Lord and Savior.
Test all things by the Word of God,
Whether they be false or be true;
He is worthy of all honor;
To Him all our praises are due.
Isaiah 8:20 ~ 1 Thessalonians 5:21 ~ 1 John 4:1‑2 ~ 1 Timothy 3:16 ~ John 16:13‑14

Monday, July 21, 2025

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When we partake of the Lord’s supper, as every true believer in Christ is privileged to do, it presents to us a backward look at “the Lord’s death” and a forward look for His appearing, for we “eat this bread, and drink this cup ... till He come.” It also gives us an inward look, for “let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.” There is nothing either miraculous or mysterious about the Lord’s supper. It “shows,” that is, by it we “declare,” we “preach,” we “speak of” His “death till He come.” It is a simple continuation of what our Lord did on the night before the cross, when He “took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is My body. And He took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; for this is My blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.” We take the Lord’s supper, not because it has merit, but because we love Him who said, “This do in remembrance of Me.” We look back and remember that “the Son of God ... loved me, and gave Himself for me,” we look ahead to the time when “we shall see Him as He is,” and we look into our hearts and pray, “Examine me, O Lord, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.”
We gather around His table
To remember His work for us;
We look forward to His coming,
And back to His work on the cross.
1 Corinthians 11:26 ~ 1 Corinthians 11:28 ~ Matthew 26:26‑28 ~ Luke 22:19 ~ Galatians 2:20 ~ 1 John 3:2 ~ Psalm 26:2

Sunday, July 20, 2025

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We are not reading here of the glories of heaven, and we cannot now understand what it will be like when we are there in the Father’s house with our Lord. Certainly, our understanding of these things is very limited. But our verse is not speaking of future things, but of present ones, for the next verse says that “God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.” He is telling us that human eyes cannot see, nor human ears hear, nor human hearts understand “the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him” and which He has revealed to us in His Word. These things must be “revealed ... unto us by His Spirit,” for “the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.” Human wisdom will not suffice; the Holy Spirit must open the Word to our hearts, “the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know.” That is why we have the often repeated admonition: “He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith,” for He, “the Spirit of truth ... will guide you into all truth.”
Not by our might nor our wisdom,
But by the Spirit of God,
We learn in God’s Word of Him,
Who has cleansed us by His blood.
1 Corinthians 2:9 ~ 1 Corinthians 2:10 ~ 1 Corinthians 2:14 ~ Ephesians 1:18 ~ Revelation 2:7 ~ John 16:13

Saturday, July 19, 2025

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God wants His people to be filled, not with self, but with Himself, “being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God,” and thus “be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God.” To “be filled with the Spirit” means to be controlled by the Spirit, to be subject to His leading in all things. And He always leads us by the Word, not by our fickle frames and feelings, causing us “to be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man; that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith ... that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God.” When we are “filled with the Spirit,” it results in “speaking to [among] yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs ... giving thanks always.” And the same results are seen being filled with the Word. “Be ye thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.” So, in order to “be filled with the Spirit,” “let the word of Christ dwell in you richly.”
Would you “be filled with the Spirit,”
To know and do God’s will?
“Let the Word ... dwell in you richly”;
Its light will lead you on still.
Ephesians 5:18 ~ Philippians 1:11 ~ Colossians 1:9‑10 ~ Ephesians 3:16‑19 ~ Ephesians 5:19‑20 ~ Colossians 3:15‑16

Friday, July 18, 2025

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Why should the saved person ever seek “great things for thyself” in a world that is headed toward destruction? Yet, sad to say, some of God’s people do seek “great things.” Let us keep close in our hearts that “the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever.” The world will give us its friendship at a price, but “know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.” The world will give us its fame, for a price. But if you seek it, do so remembering that “all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: but the word of the Lord endureth forever.” And the world offers its fortune, but “wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.” So why “seekest thou great things for thyself” in this world that despises and rejects our Savior? Rather, “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.”
Great in the world that knew Him not?
Well-known where His name is denied?
Rather let me bear His reproach,
For nothing on earth shall abide.
Jeremiah 45:5 ~ 1 John 2:17 ~ James 4:4 ~ 1 Peter 1:24‑25 ~ Proverbs 23:5 ~ Romans 12:2

Thursday, July 17, 2025

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Blessed is that Christian who recognizes that all his blessings are in Christ and for Christ’s sake. There is no blessing apart from Him. He “of God is made unto us wisdom,” for He is “the power of God, and the wisdom of God.” In Him “are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge,” and He is “the only wise God our Savior.” He is our righteousness also, and God “hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.” In Christ “He hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, He hath covered me with the robe of righteousness,” even “the righteousness of God ... by faith of Jesus Christ.” Furthermore, “Christ Jesus ... is made unto us ... sanctification.” We are “sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord,” for “we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.” And He “is made unto us ... redemption,” “in whom we have redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins.” “Thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by Thy blood.” Let us, then, not look at ourselves or to ourselves anymore, but let us look at Him and to Him.
He has been made to me wisdom;
In His own righteousness I stand;
He has set me apart to God,
My Redeemer at God’s right hand.
1 Corinthians 1:30 ~ 1 Corinthians 1:24 ~ Colossians 2:3 ~ Jude 25 ~ 2 Corinthians 5:21 ~ Isaiah 61:10 ~ Romans 3:22 ~ 1 Corinthians 1:2 ~ Hebrews 10:10 ~ Colossians 1:14 ~ Revelation 5:9

Wednesday, July 16, 2025

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The first half of Romans 5 tells us of the blessings we have because we have been “justified by faith.” Because we have trusted Christ as Savior, we have been “justified,” pronounced righteous by God. More than that, by Him “we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand” and may now “come boldly unto the throne of grace.” We also “rejoice in hope of the glory of God,” as we anticipate our Lord’s coming for us and our entrance into His glory. Further, we can “glory in tribulations also,” knowing that God permits them to come for His glory and our blessing. Then “the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us,” and “we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son.” Furthermore, we are daily “saved by His life” of intercession, from the snares of Satan, the lusts of the flesh, and the allurements of the world. But all these things, as wonderful as they are, are not an end in themselves. They lead us to Him whose grace has provided all this, and “we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” We joy in Him, not just what He has done for us. “Worthy is the Lamb that was slain”!
Great gifts He has provided us;
Great grace to us He has shown;
We worship Him for who He is,
For He is worthy alone.
Romans 5:11 ~ Romans 5:1‑2 ~ Hebrews 4:16 ~ Romans 5:2‑3 ~ Romans 5:5 ~ Romans 5:10 ~ Revelation 5:12

Tuesday, July 15, 2025

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When we hear a name, we think of the person who bears it, his character and works, what he is, and what he does. So it is with the name of our Lord, “that worthy name by the which ye are called.” To us who know Him, His “name is as ointment poured forth,” giving forth to us the fragrance of heaven. In His name alone is salvation, and “neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” And in that name is safety and security for the believer, for “the name of the Lord is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe,” and “let all those that put their trust in Thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because Thou defendest them: let them also that love Thy name be joyful in Thee.” “Our heart shall rejoice in Him, because we have trusted in His holy name.” In “that worthy name,” we have access into God’s presence, for our Lord said that “whatsoever ye shall ask in My name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.” “Holy and reverend is His name,” for “God also hath highly exalted Him, and given Him a name which is above every name.” “His name shall be called Wonderful,” “and they that know Thy name will put their trust in Thee: for Thou, Lord, hast not forsaken them that seek Thee.”
His name is above all others,
And by it lost men are saved;
By it we are blessed and guarded,
For it our hearts ever crave.
Proverbs 18:10 ~ James 2:7 ~ Song of Solomon 1:3 ~ Acts 4:12 ~ Psalm 5:11 ~ Psalm 33:21 ~ John 14:13 ~ Psalm 111:9 ~ Philippians 2:9 ~ Isaiah 9:6 ~ Psalm 9:10

Monday, July 14, 2025

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God is not like us. We forget what we would like to remember, and remember what we would like to forget. Not so with God. Concerning the sins of all those who have trusted His Son, He says that “their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.” But concerning what we do for Him and His people, by His enabling grace, not one thing will be forgotten, “for God is not unrighteous to forget.” Our Lord said that “whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in My name, because ye belong to Christ, verily I say unto you, he shall not lose his reward.” He will not forget His people. “Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.” Nor will He forget our prayers, for “He forgetteth not the cry of the humble.” And He will not “forget your work and labor of love.” It may be a labor of prayer for God’s people, as Paul told the Colossians that Epaphras was “always laboring fervently for you in prayers.” Be it what it may, “whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord.”
Only “a cup of cold water,”
Given in the name of the Lord,
Will meet us in His own presence,
Worthy to receive a reward.
Hebrews 6:10 ~ Hebrews 10:17 ~ Mark 9:41 ~ Isaiah 49:15 ~ Psalm 9:12 ~ Colossians 4:12 ~ Ephesians 6:8

Sunday, July 13, 2025

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The true measure of a Christian’s love for the Lord is his love for the Word, for our Lord said of the Scriptures that “they are they which testify of Me.” He also said, “If ye love Me, keep My commandments,” and “if ye keep My commandments, ye shall abide in My love; even as I have kept My Father’s commandments, and abide in His love.” The psalmist declares that “Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against Thee. ... 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.” When our resurrected Lord walked with the two disciples on the road to Emmaus, “He expounded unto them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.” So, dear Christian, “desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby.” “Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and Thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by Thy name, O Lord God of hosts.”
“Thy words were found and I did eat,”
And sweet to my taste were they found,
Giving me counsel and courage,
And causing His grace to abound.
Job 23:12 ~ John 5:39 ~ John 14:15 ~ John 15:10 ~ Psalm 119:11 ~ Psalm 119:14‑16 ~ Luke 24:27 ~ 1 Peter 2:2 ~ Jeremiah 15:16

Saturday, July 12, 2025

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The Christian should be careful indeed in choosing his friends, for there is no doubt that “evil” fellowships and company corrupt one’s morals and thus his whole life. To be sure, in the daily business interactions of life, we cannot help having contact “with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolators; for then must ye needs go out of the world.” But this is far different from having such people as our intimate friends, and we are to “have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.” So “walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path,” for “what concord hath Christ with Belial? Or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For ye are the temple of the living God. ... Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate,” so “that thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.” Choose for your friends those to whom you can say, “O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together.” Be “a companion of all them that fear Thee, and of them that keep Thy precepts.”
Walk, then, with those who love His name,
Who seek His honor and praise,
Whose hearts are right with God and men,
Who seek Him in all their ways.
1 Corinthians 15:33 ~ 1 Corinthians 6:10 ~ Ephesians 5:11 ~ Proverbs 1:15 ~ 2 Corinthians 6:15‑17 ~ Proverbs 2:20 ~ Psalm 34:3 ~ Psalm 119:63

Friday, July 11, 2025

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Having said that “in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God,” John now tells us that “the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.” Then he says parenthetically that “we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father.” This statement could only be made by John, his brother James, and Peter, who had been with the Lord Jesus on the mount of transfiguration, when He “was transfigured before them: and His face did shine as the sun, and His raiment was white as the light.” Peter wrote about it years later, that “we ... were eyewitnesses of His majesty,” and that they heard the Father’s “voice to Him from the excellent glory, This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” When our Lord came to earth, He laid aside, for the time, His glory, and “being in the form of God ... made Himself of no reputation, and took upon Him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men.” Now He is back with the Father “with the glory which” He had “before the world was.” And we who know Him are privileged to look upon Him in glory. “We see Jesus ... crowned with glory and honor.” And as we by faith gaze upon Him as revealed in the Word, “we ... are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.”
He sits in the highest glory,
The Son of God most holy;
We gaze upon Him and adore,
Soon to be there evermore.
John 1:14 ~ John 1:1 ~ Matthew 17:2 ~ 2 Peter 1:16‑17 ~ Philippians 2:6‑7 ~ John 17:5 ~ Hebrews 2:9 ~ 2 Corinthians 3:18

Thursday, July 10, 2025

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God does not always allow His dear children to be flourishing and prosperous and healthy, or even active. He who says that “I am God ... declaring the end from the beginning” knows what the future, both time and eternity, holds for us, and He permits those trials and sorrows and adversities which He deems best for us. How well it is pictured by the mother eagle, who, when her brood of eaglets reaches the stage where they need to learn to fly, “stirreth up her nest” and pushes out her offspring. As they fall screaming into the air, trying to use their yet not fully developed wings, she “fluttereth over her young,” and as they go downward, she “spreadeth abroad her wings” and, flying under them, “taketh them, beareth them on her wings.” And “so the Lord” deals with His people. He permits our comfortable circumstances to be stirred up; He thrusts us into situations with which we can’t cope. “The brook dried up,” or “there was given to me a thorn in the flesh.” But the Lord intervenes, saying, “I bare you on eagles’ wings, and brought you unto Myself,” assuring us that “they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles.”
Are you weary and discouraged,
And seem helpless in your need?
Our Lord will come to your rescue;
He’s a deliverer indeed!
Deuteronomy 32:11‑12 ~ Isaiah 46:9‑10 ~ 1 Kings 17:7 ~ 2 Corinthians 12:7 ~ Exodus 19:4 ~ Isaiah 40:31

Wednesday, July 9, 2025

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“Under the shadow of Thy wings.” What a blessed picture of refuge and protection. This assurance of His care is for all who have come to Him for salvation, “under whose wings thou art come to trust.” We know that we are kept and hidden by Him, and in times of trouble we can confidently pray, “Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in Thee: yea, in the shadow of Thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast.” “Thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy. I will abide in Thy tabernacle forever: I will trust in the covert of Thy wings.” And “because Thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of Thy wings will I rejoice.” “He satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.” “How excellent is Thy loving-kindness, O God! Therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of Thy wings. They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of Thy house; and Thou shalt make them drink of the river of Thy pleasures.” “He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. ... He shall cover thee with His feathers, and under His wings shalt thou trust: His truth shall be thy shield and buckler.”
“Under His wings shalt thou trust”;
Protection He will provide;
“In the covert of Thy wings”
I shall thus be satisfied.
Psalm 17:8 ~ Ruth 2:12 ~ Psalm 57:1 ~ Psalm 61:3‑4 ~ Psalm 63:7 ~ Psalm 107:9 ~ Psalm 36:7‑8 ~ Psalm 91:1 ~ Psalm 91:4

Tuesday, July 8, 2025

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Three things are here stated about the Lord: (1) He “is good,” (2) He is “a stronghold in the day of trouble,” and (3) “He knoweth them that trust in Him.” How wonderful to know that He “is good,” He is loving and gracious, He is precious and sweet, kind and bountiful. “Good and upright is the Lord: therefore will He teach sinners in the way.” And this God who “is good” is for His redeemed people “a stronghold in the day of trouble.” He is to us a defense, a fortified place to which we may flee and take refuge from that which assails us “in the day of trouble.” Many of God’s dear blood-bought children find themselves “in the day of trouble,” beset by adversity, affliction or tribulation. But “the Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble. And they that know Thy name will put their trust in Thee: for Thou, Lord, hast not forsaken them that seek Thee.” Moreover, “He knoweth them that trust in Him,” for “the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are His. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.” “He calleth His own sheep by name, and leadeth them out,” and “if any man love God, the same is known of Him.”
The Lord stands by us in trouble;
His compassion is full and free;
Our defense against the devil,
Who would our destroyer be.
Nahum 1:7 ~ Psalm 25:8 ~ Psalm 9:9‑10 ~ 2 Timothy 2:19 ~ John 10:3 ~ 1 Corinthians 8:3

Monday, July 7, 2025

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While “the secret things belong unto the Lord our God ... those things which are revealed belong to us, and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law,” and there are certain things which the Lord especially wants us to know. He wants all of us who have trusted His Son to know that we are saved eternally, and “these things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life.” Thus we can assuredly say that “I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that day.” We can also know concerning the varied circumstances of our lives, for in the plan and provision and providence of God, “we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose.” And there is no uncertainty as we look to the future. “Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is.”
Do you know that you know the Lord,
That His blood has cleansed you from shame,
That you will be with Him in glory,
To give praise to His blessed name?
2 Timothy 1:12 ~ Deuteronomy 29:29 ~ 1 John 5:13 ~ Romans 8:28 ~ 1 John 3:2

Sunday, July 6, 2025

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What our God has said, He will do. He is “able also to perform” every needful thing in our lives, as we look to Him by our Lord Jesus Christ, by that power “whereby He is able even to subdue all things unto Himself.” The believer can say with confidence that “I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that day,” for “He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him,” “for in that He Himself hath suffered being tempted, He is able to succor them that are tempted.” “Unto Him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy.” “Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.” “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.” “Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us.” And “now unto Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, unto Him be glory in the church throughout all ages, world without end.”
“Able to save to the uttermost,”
“Able to make all grace abound,”
“Able to keep” all placed in His hand,
“Able to keep you from falling” down.
Romans 4:21 ~ Philippians 3:21 ~ 2 Timothy 1:12 ~ Hebrews 7:25 ~ Hebrews 2:18 ~ Jude 24 ~ Romans 14:4 ~ 2 Corinthians 9:8 ~ Daniel 3:17 ~ Ephesians 3:20‑21

Saturday, July 5, 2025

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Thus our Lord prayed for His own on the night before the cross, and thus He prays for us in heaven now. His prayer that night, when He said that “I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which Thou hast given Me; for they are Thine,” was a picture of His present ministry, where He is in “heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us.” And “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.” There in the glory He prays for our sanctification. As far as our position before God is concerned, “we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.” The believer in Christ has been set apart (for that is the meaning of sanctification) to be the Lord’s forever. But He desires that our lives be continually set apart unto Him and lived for His honor and glory. “This is the will of God, even your sanctification,” and this moment-by-moment sanctification is “through Thy truth: Thy word is truth.” It is the Word of God, as we learn it and obey it, that produces sanctification of life. “Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against Thee.” May our heart attitude be that of the psalmist: “I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto Thy testimonies.”
Would you have your life lived for Him?
Would you His excellencies show?
Then live by His Word each moment;
His grace He will surely bestow.
John 17:17 ~ John 17:9 ~ Hebrews 9:24 ~ Hebrews 7:25 ~ Hebrews 10:10 ~ 1 Thessalonians 4:3 ~ Psalm 119:11 ~ Psalm 119:59

Friday, July 4, 2025

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“Behold, Thou hast made my days as a handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before Thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity.” “My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.” “The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.” “We know that, if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. ... For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.” “As it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: so Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for Him shall He appear the second time without sin unto salvation.” “Whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord.” “So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.” “My times are in Thy hand.”
My life belongs to the Lord;
It is His to take or stay,
For “my times are in Thy hand,”
Safe there from day to day.
Psalm 90:10 ~ Psalm 39:5 ~ Job 7:6 ~ Proverbs 14:32 ~ 2 Corinthians 5:1 ~ 2 Corinthians 5:4 ~ Hebrews 9:27‑28 ~ 2 Corinthians 5:6 ~ Psalm 90:12 ~ Psalm 31:15

Thursday, July 3, 2025

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Paul, the spiritual Christian, was one of those “that love His appearing.” Demas, the carnal Christian, “loved this present world.” Paul was living for eternity; Demas, for time. There was a time when he had faithfully stood with Paul. From the Roman prison, Paul had written to the Colossian saints that “Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas, greet you.” But now Demas had been ensnared by the evil age in which we live, “having loved this present world.” The Lord has plainly told us to “love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.” Such world-lovers are untrue to their Lord. “Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.” How different with those “that love His appearing.” Such believers are not only awaiting “a crown of righteousness” at “His appearing,” they are daily “looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith” and “redeeming the time, because the days are evil.”
When we look for His returning,
Then we live for Him each day,
And the world cannot allure us,
Neither turn our hearts away.
2 Timothy 4:8 ~ 2 Timothy 4:10 ~ Colossians 4:14 ~ 1 John 2:15 ~ James 4:4 ~ Hebrews 12:2 ~ Ephesians 5:16

Wednesday, July 2, 2025

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Some believe that there is no such thing as a carnal Christian, but that a person is either all out for God or not saved at all. God’s Word, however, contradicts such teaching. Paul told the Corinthian believers, “them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints,” that “I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.” It is a sad fact that among God’s redeemed people there are those who, because of ignorance of God’s Word or because of their own unyieldedness to the Lord, have failed to “grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” Considering “the time” since their salvation, “ye ought to be teachers, [but] ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.” A carnal Christian is not necessarily worldly in character, though this is certainly included in the designation. It may be one who has remained a “babe in Christ” and did not “follow on to know the Lord” wholeheartedly.
Carnal and sinful and barren
And living like men that are lost;
Dear Christian, take heed and hearken;
Be spiritual at any cost.
1 Corinthians 3:3 ~ 1 Corinthians 1:2 ~ 1 Corinthians 3:1‑2 ~ 2 Peter 3:18 ~ Hebrews 5:12 ~ Hosea 6:3

Tuesday, July 1, 2025

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Sooner or later the Christian must choose whether he will “please men” or “please Him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.” There is nothing wrong with pleasing men as long as it does not conflict with our pleasing the Lord. “Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved,” and “let every one of us please his neighbor for his good to edification.” But this is a far different thing than loving “the praise of men more than the praise of God.” Christian slaves were exhorted (and the exhortation is applicable to all of us) to obey their masters, “not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God: and whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men.” Now, “men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself,” but praise from God comes either now, in His blessings to us, or when we shall stand before Him at His coming, for “then shall every man have praise of God.” Let us, then, “look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.” Our Lord said that “if any man serve Me, him will My Father honor.” Such life and service will please and honor Him and will be “a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God.”
Not men, but God, to please and serve,
That His name might honored be;
Thus will our labors please Him well,
For time and eternity.
Galatians 1:10 ~ 2 Timothy 2:4 ~ 1 Corinthians 10:33 ~ Romans 15:2 ~ John 12:43 ~ Colossians 3:22‑23 ~ Psalm 49:18 ~ 1 Corinthians 4:5 ~ Philippians 2:4 ~ John 12:26 ~ Philippians 4:18
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