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December 2025

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Wednesday, December 31, 2025

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Many have been the shadows which have fallen on the paths of God’s dear children as we have journeyed through a Christ-rejecting world. The shadows of pain, persecution, separation, misunderstanding, blighted hopes, weariness, privation, grief, and “the shadow of death.” But one of these days shall “the shadows flee away,” and we shall know by sight, even as we now know by faith, “that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.” Like John on Patmos we shall hear a voice saying, “Come up hither,” at “the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and ... our gathering together unto Him,” “and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.” “Until the day break,” let us joyfully trust and serve Him, following “the sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts.” “The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.”
For long it has been the nighttime,
With its shadows and its sounds,
But soon He’ll come, who is the Light,
And glory will shine around.
Song of Solomon 4:6 ~ Psalm 23:4 ~ Romans 8:18 ~ Revelation 4:1 ~ 2 Thessalonians 2:1 ~ Revelation 21:4 ~ 2 Peter 1:19 ~ Romans 13:12

Tuesday, December 30, 2025

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The psalmist wanted to be in the Lord’s presence both “to behold” and “to inquire.” He wanted “to behold the beauty of the Lord.” The time is not yet come when “thine eyes shall see the King in His beauty,” but “though now ye see Him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory,” for by faith “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.” Thus we “behold the beauty of the Lord,” “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,” “for He is thy Lord; and worship thou Him.” And as we gaze upon Him in His Word, “we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord,” and with Moses we pray, “Let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us.”
Let His beauty be seen in me,
That men may in me behold
The grace and love of my Savior,
Who gave Himself for my soul.
Psalm 27:4 ~ Isaiah 33:17 ~ 1 Peter 1:8 ~ Hebrews 2:9 ~ Hebrews 12:2 ~ Psalm 45:11 ~ 2 Corinthians 3:18 ~ Psalm 90:17

Monday, December 29, 2025

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“The day of Jesus Christ” is the time when our Lord shall come for His own, and we who know Him are “waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ: who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.” We are saved because “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners,” because He “His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree.” But though the believer in Christ is perfectly and completely saved, yet the full manifestation of our salvation awaits the Lord’s return, and “now is our salvation nearer than when we believed,” and “He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.” 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, according to the working whereby He is able even to subdue all things unto Himself.” And “faithful is He that calleth you, who also will do it.” Meanwhile, we “are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though ... ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations.”
He who has saved us will keep us
Until His purpose is done
And we are safely home at last,
With all earthly battles won.
Philippians 1:6 ~ 1 Corinthians 1:7‑8 ~ 1 Timothy 1:15 ~ 1 Peter 2:24 ~ Romans 13:11 ~ Philippians 3:20‑21 ~ 1 Thessalonians 5:24 ~ 1 Peter 1:5‑6

Sunday, December 28, 2025

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We know that “the sufferings of Christ” were accomplished at His first coming, and that “the glory that should follow” will be revealed when He comes again. We live between His two advents. But the Old Testament prophets lived before either coming, and they “inquired and searched diligently” as to what “the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify,” when He spoke through them of “the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.” They saw the first and second comings of Christ in one blended vision. Isaiah wrote of One who “is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.” On the other hand, he said of that coming One that “He shall smite the earth with the rod of His mouth, and with the breath of His lips shall He slay the wicked.” The two comings of our Lord are inseparably connected in the Word. “He appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself,” and we wait for Him to “appear the second time without sin unto salvation.”
He came, the blessed Son of God,
To die for the sins of all;
He’ll come again in great glory;
His judgment on sin will fall.
1 Peter 1:10‑11 ~ Isaiah 53:3 ~ Isaiah 11:4 ~ Hebrews 9:26 ~ Hebrews 9:28

Saturday, December 27, 2025

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“The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” “God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” “Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give Me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of Him, and He would have given thee living water. ... Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst, but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.” “By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.” “And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of My hand.” “Not as the offense, so also is the free gift: for if through the offense of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many. ... Much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.” “Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters ... yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.”
God gave the world of men His Son,
“Unspeakable gift” indeed;
He took our sins upon Himself
In order to meet our need.
2 Corinthians 9:15 ~ Romans 6:23 ~ John 3:16 ~ John 4:10 ~ John 4:14 ~ Ephesians 2:8 ~ John 10:28 ~ Romans 5:15 ~ Romans 5:17 ~ Isaiah 55:1

Friday, December 26, 2025

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“He was rich.” Isaiah “saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and His train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphim. ... And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of His glory. Then said I, Woe is me! ... for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.” John tells us that “these things said Esaias, when he saw His glory, and spake of Him,” our Lord Jesus Christ. But He “made Himself of no reputation, and took upon Him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men.” “For your sakes He became poor.” “She brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped Him in swaddling clothes, and laid Him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.” “He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: He hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief. ... Surely He hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows. ... 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.”
He was in the Father’s bosom
Throughout all eternity,
Yet He became Man for our sakes,
Bearing sin for such as we.
2 Corinthians 8:9 ~ Isaiah 6:1‑3 ~ Isaiah 6:5 ~ John 12:41 ~ Philippians 2:7 ~ Luke 2:7 ~ Isaiah 53:2‑4 ~ Isaiah 53:6

Thursday, December 25, 2025

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We who are sinners by nature and practice, and all of us are, do not need a teacher, nor an example; we need a Savior. And the One who came down from heaven two thousand years ago was and is “a Savior, which is Christ the Lord.” “Thou shalt call His name JESUS: for He shall save His people from their sins.” Hundreds of years before He came, He had declared through Isaiah that “I, even I, am the Lord; and beside Me there is no savior,” for “neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” It “is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners,” and this “according to the commandment of God our Savior.” He could be our Savior because He is the spotless Son of God, “a lamb without blemish and without spot,” “who did no sin,” “who knew no sin,” and “in Him is no sin.” We say with Mary, “My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Savior.” And knowing Him, “we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,” daily “looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ.”
The Savior came into the world
To save such sinners as we;
He laid down His life a ransom
That we from sin might be free.
Luke 2:11 ~ Matthew 1:21 ~ Isaiah 43:11 ~ Acts 4:12 ~ 1 Timothy 1:15 ~ Titus 1:3 ~ 1 Peter 1:19 ~ 1 Peter 2:22 ~ 2 Corinthians 5:21 ~ 1 John 3:5 ~ Luke 1:46‑47 ~ Philippians 3:20 ~ Titus 2:13

Wednesday, December 24, 2025

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Our Lord on earth was the perfect Servant, of whom Jehovah God had spoken prophetically, “Behold My servant, whom I uphold; Mine elect, in whom My soul delighteth; I have put My Spirit upon Him: He shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause His voice to be heard in the street. A bruised reed shall He not break, and the smoking flax shall He not quench: He shall bring forth judgment unto truth. He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till He have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for His law.” When He left heaven to come to earth, to be born of the virgin, “when He cometh into the world, He saith, Sacrifice and offering Thou wouldest not, but a body hast Thou prepared Me. ... Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of Me,) to do Thy will, O God.” He could say without reservation that “I came down from heaven, not to do Mine own will, but the will of Him that sent Me,” and “My meat is to do the will of Him that sent Me, and to finish His work,” “by the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.”
The Servant of the Lord was here;
His delight was to obey;
He was “obedient unto death,”
To turn our night unto day.
Philippians 2:5‑7 ~ Isaiah 42:1‑4 ~ Hebrews 10:5‑7 ~ John 6:38 ~ John 4:34 ~ Hebrews 10:10

Tuesday, December 23, 2025

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“All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a Son, and they shall call His name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.” “When the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law,” in fulfillment of the first Messianic promise, spoken by the Lord God to the serpent, Satan’s tool, in the Garden of Eden, that “I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise His heel.” “God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.” “No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared Him.” He said that “I and My Father are one,” and “he that hath seen Me hath seen the Father.” He is “our Lord Jesus Christ ... the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; who only hath immortality ... to whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen.”
The holy Son of God came down
To dwell on earth among men;
Refused, despised and rejected,
He paid the price for our sins.
Matthew 1:21 ~ Matthew 1:22‑23 ~ Galatians 4:4 ~ Genesis 3:15 ~ 1 Timothy 3:16 ~ John 1:18 ~ John 10:30 ~ John 14:9 ~ 1 Timothy 6:14‑16

Monday, December 22, 2025

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“God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world: but that the world through Him might be saved. He that believeth on Him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.” “The Son of Man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.” He said that “I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” “And He is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world,” “that He by the grace of God should taste death for every man.” “In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.” He came “not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give His life a ransom for many,” “and the Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all.”
“God sent ... His Son into the world,”
To die on the cross for all;
The debt is paid; only believe;
Salvation is in His call.
1 John 5:20 ~ John 3:16‑19 ~ Luke 19:10 ~ John 10:10 ~ 1 John 2:2 ~ Hebrews 2:9 ~ 1 John 4:9‑10 ~ Matthew 20:28 ~ Isaiah 53:6

Sunday, December 21, 2025

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He, our Lord Jesus Christ, is “the Lord of hosts ... wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.” He is wonderful, and so is His Word. “Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them.” And “many, O Lord my God, are Thy wonderful works which Thou hast done, and Thy thoughts which are to usward.” He is the “Counselor,” and “who teacheth like Him?” “Who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been His counselor?” He is also “The mighty God,” “wise in heart, and mighty in strength,” declaring that “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.” He is “The everlasting Father,” that is, “the Father of the ages,” and all the ages of time, past, present and future, were planned for the glory of “His Son, whom He hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also He made the worlds [ages].” And as “The Prince of Peace” He shall one day, at His return, occupy “the throne of His father David,” and “in His days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth.” And today, we who trust Him “have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Wonderful and beyond compare
Is the name of Christ our Lord,
Counselor, Prince of Peace, and God,
Thus revealed throughout the Word.
Isaiah 9:6 ~ Isaiah 28:29 ~ Psalm 119:129 ~ Psalm 40:5 ~ Job 36:22 ~ Romans 11:34 ~ Job 9:4 ~ Revelation 1:8 ~ Hebrews 1:2 ~ Luke 1:32 ~ Psalm 72:7 ~ Romans 5:1

Saturday, December 20, 2025

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“The birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as His mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. ... But ... the angel of the Lord appeared ... in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost. And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call His name JESUS: for He shall save His people from their sins.” And “behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, saying, Where is He that is born King of the Jews?” “The angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favor with God. And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call His name JESUS. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God shall give unto Him the throne of His father David.” But not only is “a child ... born,” also “a son is given.” “God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” “When the fullness of time was come, God sent forth His Son.” “He ... spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all.”
“Christ Jesus came into the world,”
Born a Babe at Bethlehem,
To die for sinners such as we;
He took all God’s wrath for them.
Isaiah 9:6 ~ Matthew 1:18 ~ Matthew 1:20‑21 ~ Matthew 2:1‑2 ~ Luke 1:30‑32 ~ John 3:16 ~ Galatians 4:4 ~ Romans 8:32

Friday, December 19, 2025

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“In Him was life; and the life was the light of men.” “In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.” “He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.” “And you hath He quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins.” “And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath He quickened together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses.” Our Lord Jesus Christ said that “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me,” and, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth My word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.” He also said that “I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever: and the bread that I will give is My flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.” “Christ, who is our life.” “I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.”
“Dead in trespasses and sins,”
With no hope that I could see,
But God’s dear Son took my place,
That I delivered might be.
John 10:10 ~ John 1:4 ~ 1 John 4:9 ~ 1 John 5:12 ~ Ephesians 2:1 ~ Colossians 2:13 ~ John 14:6 ~ John 5:24 ~ John 6:51 ~ Colossians 3:4

Thursday, December 18, 2025

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There is for the child of God “the present,” and often it is not “joyous, but grievous,” as we pass “through manifold temptations” and “the fiery trial which is to try you.” “The travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it” carries with it a weight of sorrow and weariness, and for the time we forget that “all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.” But our loving Father does not work in our lives simply for present benefit and ease. He looks to the “afterward,” both in this life and in eternity. As we allow ourselves to be “exercised” by all the circumstances of life, our trials yield to us “the peaceable fruit of righteousness.” Thus God leads us “that He might humble thee, and that He might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end,” and “that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ.”
We know not the “why” of our trials,
Nor how they can work for our good,
But He sees the end of our testings,
And make us more Christ-like He would.
Hebrews 12:11 ~ 1 Peter 1:6 ~ 1 Peter 4:12 ~ Ecclesiastes 3:10 ~ 2 Corinthians 4:15 ~ Deuteronomy 8:16 ~ 1 Peter 1:7

Wednesday, December 17, 2025

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It is a blessed thing indeed to know that “He knoweth” all about us: our desires, our motives, our hopes, our failures, our temptations, our tears, ALL. “The Lord knoweth the way of the righteous.” “The Lord knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be forever.” When trials oppress us heavily, let us not forget that “He knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness,” and we can say with Job that “He knoweth the way that I take: when He hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.” And He not only knows all things, He also “remembereth that we are dust.” He knows our limitations, and “though He cause grief, yet will He have compassion according to the multitude of His mercies.” He tells us that “I will not contend forever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before Me, and the souls which I have made.” “He hath remembered His mercy and His truth.” So, “remember, O Lord, Thy tender mercies and Thy loving-kindnesses; for they have been ever of old.”
“He knoweth the way” of His saints,
And He forsaketh them never;
The world and all its allurements
Cannot us from Him sever.
Psalm 103:14 ~ Psalm 1:6 ~ Psalm 37:18 ~ Deuteronomy 2:7 ~ Job 23:10 ~ Lamentations 3:32 ~ Isaiah 57:16 ~ Psalm 98:3 ~ Psalm 25:6

Tuesday, December 16, 2025

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Here we have the “grace” of giving, for it is a “grace” worked into our hearts because of our love for the Lord. It is “the proof of your love” and a means “to prove the sincerity of your love.” And God not only looks at what we give, but also at what we keep for ourselves. “If there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.” God’s Word teaches us to give regularly and proportionately. “Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay [up] by him in store, as God hath prospered him.” And He tells us of the blessing of giving bountifully, and of the loss both of present blessing and future reward for careless and grudging giving. “This I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver. 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.” “Remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how He said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.”
Whatever we may give to Him
Out of His bountiful store
Will be in heaven waiting for us,
And added to more and more.
2 Corinthians 8:7 ~ 2 Corinthians 8:24 ~ 2 Corinthians 8:8 ~ 2 Corinthians 8:12 ~ 1 Corinthians 16:2 ~ 2 Corinthians 9:6‑8 ~ Acts 20:35

Monday, December 15, 2025

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Many there are among the saints who know something about “a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me.” It may be some physical infirmity, as was evidently the case with Paul. Or it may be a testing or a pressure of some other nature, for which prayer for its removal has been made many times. However, the Lord has not seen fit to remove it. It is not that He is unconcerned, for He “is touched with the feeling of our infirmities.” But He wants us to learn to draw our strength from Him, who is “the God of all grace.” He not only has saving grace, but He also has sustaining grace, and His “strength is made perfect in [our] weakness.” “Thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat.”
Have you cried to Him many times
That your “thorn in the flesh” might go?
But still He has not removed it,
For to you His grace He would show.
2 Corinthians 12:7‑9 ~ Hebrews 4:15 ~ 1 Peter 5:10 ~ Isaiah 25:4

Sunday, December 14, 2025

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In the family of God, there are always those who are undergoing sorrow or pressure and who need help and encouragement. If we would “fulfill the law of Christ,” we are to “bear ... one another’s burdens,” “for even Christ pleased not Himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached Thee fell on Me,” and when He was here on earth, “Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses,” voluntarily making the troubles of others His very own. “By sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken,” and “heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.” Let us look for opportunities to “bear ... one another’s burdens,” the opportunity to speak that word or perform that act of kindness that will help our brother in his time of need. “We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves,” to be “distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality. ... Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.” “Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.”
Let me help my brother, dear Lord,
As Thou in grace hast helped me;
Let me bear his sorrows with him,
So that lighter his load may be.
Galatians 6:2 ~ Romans 15:3 ~ Matthew 8:17 ~ Proverbs 15:13 ~ Proverbs 12:25 ~ Romans 15:1 ~ Romans 12:13 ~ Romans 12:15 ~ Hebrews 13:3

Saturday, December 13, 2025

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All of us who know the Lord Jesus, “being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another,” and therefore we are to “consider one another” and “be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honor preferring one another.” We are admonished to “look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.” God has given us the privilege and the responsibility to “bear ... one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ,” that we might “by love serve one another.” There may be occasion, in the circle in which we move, to “warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded [fainthearted], support the weak, be patient toward all men,” “with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love.” Let us then, Christian friends, “consider one another,” watching out for the needs of others, that we might stir up and incite them “unto love and to good works.” “See that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently,” “and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.”
There is always need with others
For a word of love and cheer,
Both to warn and to encourage,
And to deliver from fear.
Hebrews 10:24 ~ Romans 12:5 ~ Romans 12:10 ~ Philippians 2:4 ~ Galatians 6:2 ~ Galatians 5:13 ~ 1 Thessalonians 5:14 ~ Ephesians 4:2 ~ 1 Peter 1:22 ~ Ephesians 4:32

Friday, December 12, 2025

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We who know the Savior are exhorted to “come boldly unto the throne of grace.” For the believer, God’s throne is no longer a throne of judgment, which we must fear. Rather, because our sins have been forever put away by the blood of Christ, it is now a throne of grace! “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.” And our verse does not say that we are to “come boldly,” in all confidence and outspokenness, in order to ask for mercy and to hope for grace in our “time of need.” Rather, it says that we come “that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.” “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.” Like David, we know the Lord as “Thou that hearest prayer.” “Ah, Lord God! Thou hast made the heaven and the earth by Thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for Thee.” “Pour out your heart before Him.”
I may come boldly unto Him
With all my needs and my cares;
He has promised grace sufficient,
And His promise calms my fears.
Hebrews 4:16 ~ 2 Corinthians 9:8 ~ 1 John 5:14‑15 ~ Psalm 65:2 ~ Jeremiah 32:17 ~ Psalm 62:8

Thursday, December 11, 2025

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“Sincere” means to be “tested by sunlight,” and God wants His people to be tested by the light of His Word and to be found “sincere,” to be clean and pure, truthful and honest, and to be without deceit and pretense. In order for this, He desires “that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment,” and such experience is possible by our “being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.” To this end, we are to “desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby,” and we have the assurance of God’s grace toward “all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity.” As we walk in the light of His Word, such “simplicity and godly sincerity” will be ours, as we are “tested by sunlight,” for “the entrance of Thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple,” and to this Word of God “ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the daystar arise in your hearts.” Such a life will “prove the sincerity of your love.”
To be “sincere ... without offense,”
Till the time when He appears,
To have Him say to us, “Well done”:
Blest reward for all our tears.
Philippians 1:10 ~ Philippians 1:9 ~ Philippians 1:11 ~ 1 Peter 2:2 ~ Ephesians 6:24 ~ 2 Corinthians 1:12 ~ Psalm 119:130 ~ 2 Peter 1:19 ~ 2 Corinthians 8:8

Wednesday, December 10, 2025

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These Spirit-inspired words written by Paul to young Timothy are equally applicable to every Christian, for all of us are called to be “an example of the believers” in every area of our lives. We are told to “make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed,” and to “let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ. ... Stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel.” We are to “speak ... the things which become sound doctrine,” and to be “in all things showing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine showing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,” that we “no longer should live the rest of ... time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.” We who are saved “have been called unto liberty,” but we are to “use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.” May it not be true of us as it was of the scribes and Pharisees, that “they say, and do not.” Rather, by God’s enabling grace, “be thou an example of the believers.”
Is your life a light for our Lord,
Mid the darkness of this world?
Showing the power of His grace,
Although Satan’s darts are hurled?
1 Timothy 4:12 ~ Hebrews 12:13 ~ Philippians 1:27 ~ Titus 2:1 ~ Titus 2:7 ~ 1 Peter 4:2 ~ Galatians 5:13 ~ Matthew 23:3

Tuesday, December 9, 2025

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As we study the Bible, which “word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path,” let us be sure that we are “rightly dividing the word of truth.” While all God’s Word is for us “and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness”—while it is all for us, it is not all about us. For example, God’s word to Adam was that “of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” Surely this Scripture, like all other Scripture, “is profitable” to us, as we observe the effects of Adam’s disobedience to it, yet it is not spoken directly to us, for we are not in the Garden of Eden in the beginning of human history, as Adam was. So let us be “rightly dividing the word of truth,” plowing a straight furrow, cutting a clean line. Let us apply to Israel what God has said to them, and let us apply to the church what God has said to us, in wholehearted obedience. Then we can say with the psalmist, “How sweet are Thy words unto my taste! Yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth.”
God’s Word is clear unto the man
Whose heart is to obey it,
Bringing life and hope and blessing
From each verse of Holy Writ.
2 Timothy 2:15 ~ Psalm 119:105 ~ 2 Timothy 3:16 ~ Genesis 2:17 ~ Psalm 119:103

Monday, December 8, 2025

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God’s Word teaches us clearly that in this present age, since Calvary and Pentecost, there is no such thing as a true believer in Christ who does not have the indwelling Holy Spirit, and “if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His.” Because we are “in Christ,” God “hath anointed us” by His Spirit, so that we may understand spiritual truth. “Ye have an unction [anointing] from the Holy One, and ye know all things.” “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. But God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit.” Moreover, God by His Spirit “hath also sealed us,” and we who know the Savior are exhorted to “grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption” of our bodies. Having “believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of His glory.” The Spirit in us is God’s guarantee of our coming glory.
Redeemed by the blood of Jesus,
Indwelt by His Spirit now,
I would praise His name forever;
I would in His presence bow.
2 Corinthians 1:21‑22 ~ Romans 8:9 ~ 1 John 2:20 ~ 1 Corinthians 2:9‑10 ~ Ephesians 4:30 ~ Ephesians 1:13‑14

Sunday, December 7, 2025

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If we Christians would know the blessing of constant fellowship with the Lord, we must be “of a contrite and humble spirit,” “for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.” “I say ... to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.” “What hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?” Let us never forget that “the Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit,” and that “the sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, Thou wilt not despise.” Thus “saith the Lord: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at My word.”
The one who is self-sufficient
Goes on in his haughty way,
But he who trusts the Savior
Finds new blessings every day.
Isaiah 57:15 ~ 1 Peter 5:5 ~ Romans 12:3 ~ 1 Corinthians 4:7 ~ Psalm 34:18 ~ Psalm 51:17 ~ Isaiah 66:2

Saturday, December 6, 2025

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“Simplicity and godly sincerity.” How much these things are needed by God’s people in the world today. It is a day of extremes, with much activity and movement, and little spirituality, with so-called “super” churches and movements, holding forth great statistics. We do well to remember that “God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to naught things that are: that no flesh should glory in His presence.” The Christian life is not lived nor Christian work accomplished “with fleshly wisdom.” It is “not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.” Beware “lest by any means ... your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.” “In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths.”
Human wisdom cannot prevail
In work that’s done for the Lord;
It must be done in His own strength,
By those who trust in His Word.
2 Corinthians 1:12 ~ 1 Corinthians 1:27‑29 ~ Zechariah 4:6 ~ 2 Corinthians 11:3 ~ Proverbs 3:6

Friday, December 5, 2025

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Because we who know the Savior “are bought with a price,” we are told to “therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.” In Christ “we have redemption through His blood,” so we are to leave off those things belonging to the old life, to be “denying ungodliness and worldly lusts,” and to live now for His glory, for we “should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world.” “Ye have put off the old man with his deeds; and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of Him that created him.” And as we are constantly “looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ,” we shall experientially find that “He gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto Himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.” “Every man that hath this hope in Him purifieth himself, even as He is pure.”
Laying aside deeds of evil
And living godly each day,
Sustained by His grace and power,
Each step of our pilgrim way.
Titus 2:11‑13 ~ 1 Corinthians 6:20 ~ Ephesians 1:7 ~ Colossians 3:9‑10 ~ Titus 2:14 ~ 1 John 3:3

Thursday, December 4, 2025

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Paul had just been writing about “our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life.” “But,” he continues, “we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that He will yet deliver us.” Thus he connects the deliverance which God has wrought for him with the prayers of his Corinthian friends, “ye also helping together by prayer for us.” Never will we know, until that hour when all the saints are safely home with the Lord, what God has wrought in our lives by the prayers of other saints. Paul, in prison, wrote to the Philippians about his situation and said that “I know that this shall turn to my salvation [deliverance] through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.” God’s Word has much to say about our praying one for another. Thus we “bear ... one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.” “The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.”
As we remember each other
Before the throne of His grace,
God undertakes for us richly,
For each one in his own place.
2 Corinthians 1:11 ~ 2 Corinthians 1:8‑10 ~ Philippians 1:19 ~ Galatians 6:2 ~ James 5:16

Wednesday, December 3, 2025

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The Lord Jesus Christ took our sins, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. “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.” Our Lord “His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.” “Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit.” “It pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He hath put Him to grief: when Thou shalt make His soul an offering for sin.” “Now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested ... 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.” “Of Him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us ... righteousness,” that I may “be found in Him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith.”
Having the righteousness of God in Christ,
No more does my sin appear;
“Accepted in the Beloved,”
I have nothing now to fear.
2 Corinthians 5:21 ~ Isaiah 53:6 ~ 1 Peter 2:24 ~ 1 Peter 3:18 ~ Isaiah 53:10 ~ Romans 3:21‑22 ~ 1 Corinthians 1:30 ~ Philippians 3:9

Tuesday, December 2, 2025

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There come times in our Christian lives when we must proceed with godly determination. Some unpleasant duty faces us, some task must be performed, and we feel that we are not fitted for it. Some word needs to be spoken, and we find ourselves reluctant to do it. At such times, regardless of our feeling and fears, we must move forward. Paul, with his heart heavy because of the carnality of the Corinthian believers, “determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.” Later he wrote to them that “I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.” Having determined these things in his heart, he proceeded to fulfill them. It is recorded of our blessed Lord that, “when the time was come that He should be received up, He steadfastly set His face to go to Jerusalem.” We hear Him speaking prophetically, through Isaiah, saying, “The Lord God will help Me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set My face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.” May we who know Him determine to do His will. “I have set the Lord always before me: because He is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.”
The task is not mine, but the Lord’s,
That which He calls me to do;
I yield myself to His leading,
And He will carry me through.
1 Corinthians 2:2 ~ 2 Corinthians 2:1 ~ Luke 9:51 ~ Isaiah 50:7 ~ Psalm 16:8

Monday, December 1, 2025

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“The house of the Lord” was where the Lord had said that “there will I meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat.” David’s desire then was to be in the Lord’s presence, to be in fellowship with Him. The same desire is expressed by Paul when he said “that I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable unto His death,” and “I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” Many of us who know the Lord have a desire to go with the Lord, to “grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,” but, unlike David, we do not constantly “seek after” such fellowship. We allow ourselves to be “choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life.” If we would “follow on to know the Lord” in intimate fellowship, we must continually “seek those things which are above.”
If we would know His presence near
And reflect His beauty too,
Then we must count all things as loss
That would hide His face from view.
Psalm 27:4 ~ Exodus 25:22 ~ Philippians 3:10 ~ Philippians 3:13‑14 ~ 2 Peter 3:18 ~ Luke 8:14 ~ Hosea 6:3 ~ Colossians 3:1
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