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November 2025

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Sunday, November 30, 2025

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“As many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name: which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God,” for “of His own will begat He us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures,” and “it became Him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. For both He that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause He is not ashamed to call them brethren, saying, I will declare Thy name unto My brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto Thee.” So “the Spirit Itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with Him, that we may be also glorified together.” Our Lord said that “I go to prepare a place for you. ... And ... I will come again, and receive you unto Myself.”
Born into the family of God
By faith in our precious Lord;
So then the world knows us not;
It knows not Him nor His Word.
1 John 3:1 ~ John 1:12‑13 ~ James 1:18 ~ Hebrews 2:10‑12 ~ Romans 8:16‑17 ~ John 14:2‑3

Saturday, November 29, 2025

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Many are the tears that have been shed by God’s people in this sin-cursed and hostile world: tears of grief, tears of regret and remorse, tears of repentance, tears of helplessness, tears of concern, and even sometimes tears of joy. And the Lord knows about them all and keeps account of them all. Most of us can put ourselves in the place of the psalmist when he said that “my tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?” Many of God’s dear servants like Paul are “serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears,” and have “ceased not to warn everyone night and day with tears.” Many a letter has been written by the saints of which it may be said that “I wrote unto you with many tears,” and many dear children of God can say with David, “I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.” God permits these heartaches and tears for a purpose, and He counts all our tears. “In all their affliction He was afflicted ... and He bare them, and carried them,” and His word to Hezekiah comes home to our hearts: “I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears.” And the time is fast approaching when “God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.”
The heart does break, and the tears flow
Through dark and sorrowful nights,
But blessing will come from His hand,
Down from “the Father of lights.”
Psalm 56:8 ~ Psalm 42:3 ~ Acts 20:19 ~ Acts 20:31 ~ 2 Corinthians 2:4 ~ Psalm 6:6 ~ Isaiah 63:9 ~ 2 Kings 20:5 ~ Revelation 21:4

Friday, November 28, 2025

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Few are the children of God who have never been “desolate,” lonely even in the midst of friends and loved ones, and “afflicted,” depressed, and greatly conscious of our need. At such times we know, deep in our hearts, the truth of the Lord’s words that “My grace is sufficient for thee: for My strength is made perfect in weakness,” but even such knowledge seems hard to lay hold upon in times of such depression. Our situation seems like that of Asaph, when he cried, “I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. ... Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak. I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times. I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search. Will the Lord cast off forever? And will He be favorable no more? Is His mercy clean gone forever? Doth His promise fail forevermore?” But notice how Asaph overcame such depression: “I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High. I will remember the works of the Lord: surely I will remember Thy wonders of old. I will meditate also of all Thy work, and talk of Thy doings.” Do likewise, afflicted friend.
Is your heart now sad and lonely?
Do you feel that all has gone?
Your feelings do not alter Him;
He’s ever true to His own.
Psalm 25:16 ~ 2 Corinthians 12:9 ~ Psalm 77:3‑8 ~ Psalm 77:10‑12

Thursday, November 27, 2025

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This verse anticipates the glorious time when our Lord Jesus Christ shall sit in Jerusalem on the “throne of His father David: and He shall reign over the house of Jacob forever; and of His kingdom there shall be no end.” But that which will be true of redeemed and restored Israel in that day is so applicable now to us who know Him. For us He “is mighty,” He is “wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.” “He will save,” for “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 “He will rejoice over thee with joy.” When we came to Him and trusted Him, there was “joy ... in heaven over one sinner that repenteth,” and now the Lord continues to “rejoice over thee with joy.” He is not a hard taskmaster, ready to smite us when we fail. He deals with us in love and grace, and “like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear Him. For He knoweth our frame; He remembereth that we are dust.” “He will joy over thee with singing.” “His compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is Thy faithfulness.”
He rejoiceth over His own,
As one that findeth great spoil;
He has redeemed us by His blood,
Apart from our works or toil.
Zephaniah 3:17 ~ Luke 1:32‑33 ~ Isaiah 28:29 ~ Hebrews 7:25 ~ Luke 15:7 ~ Psalm 103:13‑14 ~ Lamentations 3:22‑23

Wednesday, November 26, 2025

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What a dark picture precedes the above words. We “were dead in trespasses and sins,” and we “walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.” How benighted and benumbed and depraved we all were, “but God!” But for His intervention there was no hope for any. “But God ... rich in mercy,” and because of “His great love,” has “quickened us together with Christ,” “who His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree,” so that now “by grace ye are saved.” “But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” And not only so, “but God” still intervenes for us. “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.”
Lost, blinded, condemned and undone,
No hope nor help could be found,
“But God ... rich in mercy” and grace,
With love unbounded came down.
Ephesians 2:4‑5 ~ Ephesians 2:1‑3 ~ 1 Peter 2:24 ~ Romans 5:8 ~ 1 Corinthians 10:13

Tuesday, November 25, 2025

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We are not always able to see how God works in the lives of His children. We know not His design nor can we trace His movements, “for we walk by faith, not by sight.” And the Lord says to us, as He did to Peter, “What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter.” But amid all the testings and pressures of life we do know, by faith, that “as for God, His way is perfect: the word of the Lord is tried: He is a buckler to all those who trust in Him. ... It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.” If, like Asaph, we must say that “all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning,” yet His word to us is that “I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.” Now “we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us ... after their own pleasure; but He for our profit, that we might be partakers of His holiness. Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.” So though “we are troubled on every side, yet [we are] not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair,” for we “have not seen, and yet have believed.”
We may not trace the ways of God,
As He works in us each hour
To bring His image in our lives,
And to fill us with His power.
John 20:29 ~ 2 Corinthians 5:7 ~ John 13:7 ~ Psalm 18:30 ~ Psalm 18:32 ~ Psalm 73:14 ~ Isaiah 41:13 ~ Hebrews 12:9‑11 ~ 2 Corinthians 4:8

Monday, November 24, 2025

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The long-anticipated Messiah and King had come to Israel, “He that is born King of the Jews.” After His baptism by John, when God had spoken from heaven, declaring that “this is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased,” and after He was “led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil,” over whom He was completely victorious, “Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” The King was at hand, ready to set up His kingdom. Sad to say, “He came unto His own, and His own received Him not.” Not until He comes again “shall He sit upon the throne of His glory.” But when He announced that “the kingdom of heaven is at hand,” He also announced, in the Sermon on the Mount, the constitution and principles of the kingdom. One of these principles is: “Blessed are the poor in spirit.” This is always true, in any age, and it is true for us today. “Thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.” Always, “the Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.”
Humble and contrite before Him
Brings blessing to us always;
He delights when we but trust Him
And rest in Him as He says.
Matthew 5:3 ~ Matthew 2:2 ~ Matthew 3:17 ~ Matthew 4:1 ~ Matthew 4:17 ~ John 1:11 ~ Matthew 25:31 ~ Isaiah 57:15 ~ Psalm 34:18

Sunday, November 23, 2025

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“Jesus” is our Lord’s name as a man, the name He took in incarnation. And having laid down His life for us, that He might take it again, and having ascended back to the Father, He now bears that name in glory, as the glorified man. “We see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor; that He by the grace of God should taste death for every man.” He is there in glory as the glorified man, and we are told to be “looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.” Because He, “being found in fashion as a man ... humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross ... God also hath highly exalted Him, and given Him a name which is above every name: that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” “We wait for His Son from heaven ... even Jesus.”
We humbly bow before Him,
Jesus, the Son of God,
Who bore our sins on Calvary,
Bearing for us God’s rod.
Matthew 1:21 ~ Hebrews 2:9 ~ Hebrews 12:2 ~ Philippians 2:8‑11 ~ 1 Thessalonians 1:10

Saturday, November 22, 2025

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Without the substitutionary work of Christ on the cross and the resultant gospel message “that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures; and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures,” there would be no answer to Job’s question in our text verse, “for there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not,” and man cannot justify himself by his works or by his religion, for “by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in His sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.” So “how should man be just with God?” God’s Word answers this question. “The righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe; for there is no difference: for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in His blood ... that He might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.” “How should man be just with God?” “By Him all that believe are justified from all things.”
Justified by the Savior’s blood,
No charge against me shall stand;
He’ll take me safely through this life,
And home to Immanuel’s land.
Job 9:2 ~ 1 Corinthians 15:3‑4 ~ Ecclesiastes 7:20 ~ Romans 3:20‑26 ~ Acts 13:39

Friday, November 21, 2025

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We who are saved by God’s grace “are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.” God desires “that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men,” for only by our changed lives, manifested by “showing thyself a pattern of good works,” can men see the evidence of our faith in Christ. So the daily life of the believer, whether in the home, in society, in business, or in ministry, is of the utmost importance before God and before men and is to be characterized by “sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.” Thus we obey the words of our Lord to “let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.” “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.” “Let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us.”
Our works of life tell out our hearts,
And what really dwells therein,
Whether we live our lives unto Him,
Or unto self and to sin.
Titus 2:7 ~ Ephesians 2:10 ~ Titus 3:8 ~ Titus 2:8 ~ Matthew 5:16 ~ 2 Corinthians 5:14‑15 ~ Psalm 90:17

Thursday, November 20, 2025

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The Word hidden in the heart, hoarded up and reserved there, to be brought forth and used as “the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God,” not only works in us that we “might not sin against” God, but it also makes us thankful to the Lord, as the context of our text verse shows. “Blessed art Thou, O Lord: teach me Thy statutes.” And with our praise and thanksgiving unto Him comes the desire to know more about His Word, and thus more about Him, for our Lord said “the Scriptures ... are they which testify of Me.” The Word “hid in mine heart” emboldens us to speak of it and of Him to others, for the psalmist continues and says that “with my lips have I declared all the judgments of Thy mouth,” and thus am “not ... ashamed of the testimony of our Lord ... but ... partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God.” Moreover, the Word stored up in the heart brings joy, for “I have rejoiced in the way of Thy testimonies, as much as in all riches.” And with this joy and delight comes renewed desire and determination to have more of “Thy word ... hid in mine heart,” seen in the psalmist’s declaration that “I will delight myself in Thy statutes: I will not forget Thy word.”
“Thy word have I hid in mine heart,”
That my life might show Thy praise,
That Christ might be honored and seen
Through all my earthly days.
Psalm 119:11 ~ Ephesians 6:17 ~ Psalm 119:12 ~ John 5:39 ~ Psalm 119:13 ~ 2 Timothy 1:8 ~ Psalm 119:14 ~ Psalm 119:16

Wednesday, November 19, 2025

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“The fig tree ... the vines ... the olive ... the fields ... the flock ... herd” represent all the natural assets of an agricultural people, among whom Habakkuk prophesied. If everything on which we depend should fail, “yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.” Whatever may come, He is “the God of my salvation,” and “He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?” We can confidently ask Him, in times of distress and need, to “lead me in Thy truth, and teach me: for Thou art the God of my salvation; on Thee do I wait all the day.” “Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of Thy name.” “Behold, the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear Him, upon them that hope in His mercy; to deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine. Our soul waiteth for the Lord: He is our help and our shield.” “If God be for us, who can be against us?”
Though every earthly source should fail,
And there be none to give aid,
Yet the Lord will care for His own,
For whom the price has been paid.
Habakkuk 3:17‑18 ~ Romans 8:32 ~ Psalm 25:5 ~ Psalm 79:9 ~ Psalm 33:18‑20 ~ Romans 8:31

Tuesday, November 18, 2025

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We are not told to rejoice in our circumstances or in our prospects. These things vary; sometimes they are favorable, and sometimes they are not. Rather, we are told to “rejoice in the Lord always.” We are calmly to delight ourselves in Him, irrespective of our circumstances. We are to cheer our hearts by our contemplation of the Lord and His grace, to “worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.” Many are the blessings that are ours because we know Him as Savior, “but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.” As our Lord prayed for His own on the night before the cross, so now He prays for us in heaven, “that they might have My joy fulfilled in themselves.” That joy must be nurtured and maintained by feeding on His Word, for He said, “These things have I spoken unto you, that My joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.” “Thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart.” Thus “with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.” Never forget, dear Christian, that “the joy of the Lord is your strength.”
He fills the trusting heart with joy,
Though gloomy may be our days;
The soul that leans upon His grace
Will find calm in all his ways.
Philippians 4:4 ~ Philippians 3:3 ~ Romans 5:11 ~ John 17:13 ~ John 15:11 ~ Jeremiah 15:16 ~ Isaiah 12:3 ~ Nehemiah 8:10

Monday, November 17, 2025

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How often it has been among God’s redeemed people that we allow ourselves to be “choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life,” forgetting that “the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word.” So, when God permits earthly prosperity to come to His children, often it has to be said that “they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten Me.” And this is in spite of our Lord’s words that “a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.” Earthly possessions in themselves do not give joy, but fellowship with the Lord does. Therefore, we have the admonition to “charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high-minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy.” Nothing on earth can bring joy and pleasure comparable to the joy and pleasure of obedience to and communion with our Lord. “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 ... and Thou shalt make them drink of the river of Thy pleasures.”
Filled with the trinkets of this life?
Or filled with His joys supreme?
Living now for eternity?
Or for this life’s transient dream?
Hosea 13:6 ~ Luke 8:14 ~ Mark 4:19 ~ Luke 12:15 ~ 1 Timothy 6:17 ~ Psalm 36:7‑8

Sunday, November 16, 2025

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Are there not times in the life of every believer when we, like Hezekiah in our text verse, find ourselves so filled with anguish and distress, and so unable to handle our situations, that we can only cry to the Lord that “I am oppressed; undertake for me”? Times of great trouble, times of perplexity, times of uncertainty, times when “my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted. ... I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed.” There come to all of us times when we realize our utter helplessness and our need of dependence on the Lord, when, as Hezekiah, “like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.” When you come to such circumstances, “pour out your heart before Him: God is a refuge for us.” “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. ... He forgetteth not the cry of the humble.” “And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of My people ... and have heard their cry ... for I know their sorrows.” “My hope is in Thee.”
When we are oppressed and weary,
With none to whom we may turn,
He knows our distress and anguish;
Our cry for help He’ll not spurn.
Isaiah 38:14 ~ Psalm 77:2‑3 ~ Isaiah 38:14 ~ Psalm 62:8 ~ Psalm 9:9‑10 ~ Psalm 9:12 ~ Exodus 3:7 ~ Psalm 39:7

Saturday, November 15, 2025

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God is “bringing many sons unto glory” through “the captain of their salvation,” that blessed One “who His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree,” and thus was made “perfect through sufferings” to be our Savior. In His Person, He was never anything but perfect, for He was and is “God ... manifest in the flesh.” But in order to be our Savior, “Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God,” and His vicarious sufferings made Him our Savior. He is “the captain” of our salvation, the leader, the originator. “Salvation is of the Lord.” He originated it, “even as the Son of Man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give His life a ransom for many,” “for,” He said while here on earth, “the Son of Man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.” “This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.” Then, “what shall I render unto the Lord for all His benefits toward me? I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the Lord.”
“The captain of their salvation,”
He leads His own safely home,
Guarding, shielding and protecting
From what would cause us to roam.
Hebrews 2:10 ~ 1 Peter 2:24 ~ 1 Timothy 3:16 ~ 1 Peter 3:18 ~ Jonah 2:9 ~ Matthew 20:28 ~ Luke 19:10 ~ 1 Timothy 1:15 ~ Psalm 116:12‑13

Friday, November 14, 2025

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The right answer to the above question is not only a matter of correct doctrine, but a matter that determines one’s eternal destiny. If we only believe Him to be “the Son of David,” as did the Pharisees to whom the Lord addressed the question above, “how then doth David in spirit call Him Lord, saying, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit Thou on My right hand, till I make Thine enemies Thy footstool?” To make our Lord a man only, albeit a good man, is to make God a liar, for He said of our Lord that “this is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” Then “who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: [but] he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.” Our salvation depends upon His Deity and our acknowledgment of it, for “if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.” With Thomas, every true believer confesses Him as “my Lord and my God.” We humbly and thankfully acknowledge Him as God’s “dear Son: in whom we have redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins,” even “God ... manifest in the flesh.”
The Son of God has come to earth
To die for all men;
What have you done with Him, dear friend?
Make ready ere He comes again.
Matthew 22:42 ~ Matthew 22:43‑44 ~ Matthew 3:17 ~ 1 John 2:22‑23 ~ Romans 10:9 ~ John 20:28 ~ Colossians 1:13‑14 ~ 1 Timothy 3:16

Thursday, November 13, 2025

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Our Lord Jesus Christ has “for us entered” “into that within the veil,” “for Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us.” But He has entered “into that within the veil” as “the forerunner.” A “forerunner” is one who goes ahead, cutting a pioneer path, like a scout, that others may follow. None could ever follow the Old Testament high priest “within the veil,” for “into the second [the holy of holies] went the high priest alone once every year.” But we who know the Lord Jesus now have “boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which He hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh.” Moreover, our Lord has entered heaven in a body of flesh and bones, as our forerunner, and one day He will take all His glorified saints “within the veil,” fulfilling His promise that “I go to prepare a place for you. And 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,” “and so shall we ever be with the Lord.”
He has entered heaven for us;
As a Man He sits in glory;
He’ll come to take us to Himself,
Completing redemption’s story.
Hebrews 6:20 ~ Hebrews 6:19 ~ Hebrews 9:24 ~ Hebrews 9:7 ~ Hebrews 10:19‑20 ~ John 14:2‑3 ~ 1 Thessalonians 4:17

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

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How often Christians are guilty of answering a matter before they hear it. We hear only one side about a problem or controversy, and we form an opinion or come to a conclusion without knowing the facts. Many times we reach conclusions from hearsay, when God says that “in the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established,” and we do well to obey God’s word to “be swift to hear, slow to speak,” until we know the facts. “Why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at naught thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to Me, and every tongue shall confess to God. So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God. Let us not therefore judge one another anymore: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling-block or an occasion to fall in his brother’s way.” So “it is folly and shame unto him” who “answereth a matter before he heareth it.” Rather “shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently,” and “judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.” So be not one “that answereth a matter before he heareth it,” all sides of it. And even then, remember that “love covereth all sins.”
“Be swift to hear [and] slow to speak”
Whatever comes to your ear;
A faithful friend conceals the faults
Of those who to us are dear.
Proverbs 18:13 ~ 2 Corinthians 13:1 ~ James 1:19 ~ Romans 14:10‑13 ~ Deuteronomy 13:4 ~ John 7:24 ~ Proverbs 10:12

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

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Have we not all had times, when overwhelmed by situations and circumstances that oppress and discourage, we have wished that we could leave all the hard things behind “and be at rest”? David wrote these words at a time when he could say that “my heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me. Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me. ... Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah. I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.” But we cannot run away from our griefs and troubles and problems. We cannot “hasten [our] escape from the windy storm and tempest.” There are times, to be sure, when the Lord is pleased to change things, so that the things that hurt us are removed. But most of the time He says to us, “My grace is sufficient for thee: for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” “Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us.” “A man [the God-Man, our Lord Jesus] shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.”
The storms of life come upon us;
They lash with fury and force;
His grace holds us steady in them,
So our ship is kept on course.
Psalm 55:6 ~ Psalm 55:4‑5 ~ Psalm 55:7‑8 ~ 2 Corinthians 12:9 ~ Romans 8:37 ~ Isaiah 32:2

Monday, November 10, 2025

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How gracious is our God! Psalm 36 tells us about His mercy, His faithfulness, His righteousness, His judgments, and His loving-kindness. “Thy mercy, O Lord, is in the heavens,” and we read twenty-six times in Psalm 136 that “His mercy endureth forever.” “Gracious is the Lord, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful,” and we who know Him are invited to “come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.” He is also the faithful One, whose name is “called Faithful and True,” and “faithful is He that calleth you, who also will do it.” And, “if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” Truly, “Thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds.” Moreover, “Thy righteousness is like the great mountains,” for “the Lord is righteous in all His ways, and holy in all His works.” “Thy judgments are a great deep: O Lord, Thou preservest man and beast.” “Thy way is in the sea, and Thy path in the great waters, and Thy footsteps are not known.” And what shall we say of His loving-kindness toward us? “How excellent is Thy loving-kindness, O God! Therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of Thy wings.”
The grace of God in Christ Jesus
Attends our daily steps,
Blessing, keeping, encouraging,
And bringing needed help.
Ephesians 6:24 ~ Psalm 36:5 ~ Psalm 116:5 ~ Hebrews 4:16 ~ Revelation 19:11 ~ 1 Thessalonians 5:24 ~ 1 John 1:9 ~ Psalm 36:5‑6 ~ Psalm 145:17 ~ Psalm 36:6 ~ Psalm 77:19 ~ Psalm 36:7

Sunday, November 9, 2025

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We are not told to make or create “the unity of the Spirit,” but rather to “keep” it. “The unity of the Spirit” is not an organizational unity, but an organic unity created when we were “by one Spirit ... baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.” “As we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.” So we are to “keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace,” remembering that “there is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.” We are to remember this in our dealings with all who have trusted Christ. Even in the matter of Scriptural separation, while we are to “have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them,” we are also to “follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.” So “let brotherly love continue,” for “how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.”
Christ has made His people one,
Each one a member of Him,
Each one to help the other grow,
So to be a shining gem.
Ephesians 4:3 ~ 1 Corinthians 12:13 ~ Romans 12:4‑5 ~ Ephesians 4:4‑6 ~ Ephesians 5:11 ~ 2 Timothy 2:22 ~ Hebrews 13:1 ~ Psalm 133:1

Saturday, November 8, 2025

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This is a sin which believers commit, to “grieve the Holy Spirit of God.” We cannot grieve a person unless that person loves us. We can anger one who does not love us, but we cannot grieve such a one. Thus our verse reminds us of “the love of the Spirit.” When a Christian grieves the Holy Spirit, He does not go away, for by Him we “are sealed unto the day of redemption.” Our Lord promised 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 ... for He dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.” But though He never departs from the believer, sin in our lives grieves Him, so that instead of making Christ real to our hearts, as He longs to do, He must instead occupy us with our sin and the resulting broken fellowship, to bring us to confession. Any sin in our lives grieves the Spirit, but notice especially the admonition to “let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying. ... And grieve not the Holy Spirit. ... Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: and be ye kind one to another.”
When we “grieve ... the Holy Spirit,”
With deeds or words not right,
Then our fellowship is broken,
And Christ can’t fill our sight.
Ephesians 4:30 ~ Romans 15:30 ~ John 14:16‑17 ~ Ephesians 4:29‑31

Friday, November 7, 2025

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“O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out!” “Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?” Paul wrote that “unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,” while Job’s friend Eliphaz said, “I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause: which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvelous things without number.” “God is greater than man. Why dost thou strive against Him? for He giveth not account of any of His matters.” “Behold, God is great, and we know Him not, neither can the number of His years be searched out.” “Touching the Almighty, we cannot find Him out: He is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: He will not afflict.” God wants us to “be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God.”
The ways of God, past finding out,
But always in love and grace
Toward those He has by blood redeemed;
We trust, though we cannot trace.
Psalm 139:6 ~ Romans 11:33 ~ Job 11:7‑8 ~ Ephesians 3:8 ~ Job 5:8‑9 ~ Job 33:12‑13 ~ Job 36:26 ~ Job 37:23 ~ Ephesians 3:18‑19

Thursday, November 6, 2025

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“I rejoice at Thy word, as one that findeth great spoil,” and “Thy testimonies have I taken as a heritage forever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart.” “I have rejoiced in the way of Thy testimonies, as much as in all riches.” “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path,” “for the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life.” “Acquaint now thyself with Him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.” “Neither have I gone back from the commandment of His lips; I have esteemed the words of His mouth more than my necessary food.” So “I will delight myself in Thy commandments, which I have loved. My hands also will I lift up unto Thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in Thy statutes.” “The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes. ... More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. ... By them is Thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.”
God’s Word is sweet and precious
To those who love the Lord;
Nothing on earth can compare
With God’s own holy Word.
Jeremiah 15:16 ~ Psalm 119:162 ~ Psalm 119:111 ~ Psalm 119:14 ~ Psalm 119:105 ~ Proverbs 6:23 ~ Job 22:21 ~ Job 23:12 ~ Psalm 119:47‑48 ~ Psalm 19:8 ~ Psalm 19:10‑11

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

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“Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us: therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.” “The grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ; who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto Himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.” “As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: but as He which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.” “Lord, who shall abide in Thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in Thy holy hill? He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.” “If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honor ... meet for the master’s use.”
Pure and upright by His power,
This would I be by His grace,
Shunning all that turns me from Him,
All that would His name debase.
1 Timothy 5:22 ~ 1 Corinthians 5:7‑8 ~ Titus 2:11‑14 ~ 1 Peter 1:14‑16 ~ Psalm 15:1‑2 ~ 2 Timothy 2:21

Tuesday, November 4, 2025

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As the days come and go, we stand in continual need of guidance, if we would do the Lord’s will. Our constant prayer ought to be: “Cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto Thee.” And in view of His promise that “I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with Mine eye,” we may confidently ask Him to “show me Thy ways, O Lord; teach me Thy paths. Lead me in Thy truth, and teach me: for Thou art the God of my salvation; on Thee do I wait all the day.” Satan continually tries to divert the Christian from doing the Lord’s will, and how fitting that we ask the Lord to “lead me, O Lord, in Thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make Thy way straight before my face,” and “teach me Thy way, O Lord, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies.” And “good and upright is the Lord: therefore will He teach sinners in the way. The meek will He guide in judgment: and the meek will He teach His way.” “What man is he that feareth the Lord? him shall He teach in the way that He shall choose.” “He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His name’s sake.”
The will of God, I would do it,
Each day of my life down here,
Seeking not my way, but His,
Waiting for Him to appear.
Psalm 143:10 ~ Psalm 143:8 ~ Psalm 32:8 ~ Psalm 25:4‑5 ~ Psalm 5:8 ~ Psalm 27:11 ~ Psalm 25:8‑9 ~ Psalm 25:12 ~ Psalm 23:3

Monday, November 3, 2025

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God has not told His redeemed people all that we might wish to know. And we must not only respect the utterances of Scripture, but its silences as well. We may not take away from God’s Word, nor may we add to it (Rev. 22:18-19). God does not always explain His dealings with His saints, and there is mystery about things which He allows to come in our lives, “for we walk by faith, not by sight.” But though we do not understand His dealings with us, we have His assurance that “all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.” And for this “cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.” Many times our Lord says to us, in effect, as He said to Peter, “What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter.” But we trust Him, for “with Him is wisdom and strength, He hath counsel and understanding,” and “no good thing will He withhold from them that walk uprightly.”
We know not how He worketh
To bless and help His own,
But His grace always abounds
When we are sad and lone.
Deuteronomy 29:29 ~ 2 Corinthians 5:7 ~ 2 Corinthians 4:15‑16 ~ John 13:7 ~ Job 12:13 ~ Psalm 84:11

Sunday, November 2, 2025

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We can look back with thankfulness to past times of blessing from the Lord, and we are to “consider how great things He hath done for you,” and to “forget not all His benefits,” but yesterday’s blessings and yesterday’s fellowship will not suffice for today. Like Israel’s manna in the wilderness, our fellowship and our walk with the Lord must be maintained daily. “They gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating,” and God instructed them to “let no man leave of it till the [next] morning.” Just as our physical self must be maintained by constant nourishment, so must our spiritual self. We need to be constantly “forgetting those things which are behind,” not only our sins and failures, but also the spiritual successes and attainments, and to be “reaching forth unto those things which are before,” to “press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus,” “looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith,” knowing that “as thy days, so shall thy strength be.”
Forgetting our sins and failures,
That which was done yesterday,
Longing for new heights in our Lord
In all that we do and say.
Philippians 3:13‑14 ~ 1 Samuel 12:24 ~ Psalm 103:2 ~ Exodus 16:21 ~ Exodus 16:19 ~ Hebrews 12:2 ~ Deuteronomy 33:25

Saturday, November 1, 2025

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“For,” our Lord continued, “every one that asketh receiveth: and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.” And while our Lord was speaking of asking and seeking and knocking in prayer, the principle here stated applies to all areas of our Christian lives. The spiritual life that is ours in Christ is not a passive one; we are, rather, to diligently apply ourselves. It is blessedly true that “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me.” But in view of this, we have a corresponding responsibility. “If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.” “Seek ye the Lord, all ye meek of the earth ... seek righteousness, seek meekness.” “Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” Then “follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness. Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called.”
Follow the Lord with all thy heart;
Seek His face from day to day,
Thy heart filled with expectation,
Trusting Him along life’s way.
Matthew 7:7 ~ Matthew 7:8 ~ Galatians 2:20 ~ Colossians 3:1‑2 ~ Zephaniah 2:3 ~ Matthew 6:33 ~ 1 Timothy 6:11‑12
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