Tuesday, November 3, 2020

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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
             
October 2020
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Monday, November 2, 2020

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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
             
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Sunday, November 1, 2020

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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
             
October 2020
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Saturday, October 31, 2020

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Men have taken the doctrine of predestination and made it teach something entirely foreign to Scripture, namely, that God has predestined some people to be saved and some to be lost. Predestination, which means “to mark out the destiny beforehand,” is never mentioned in the Bible in connection with the unsaved. Always it is used to speak of that destiny of glory which God has marked out for those who have trusted His Son as Savior. He has “predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself,” that is, we are predestinated unto the full son-place, and we are “waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.” “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose. For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover, whom He did predestinate, them He also called: and whom He called, them He also justified: and whom He justified, them He also glorified.” In Christ “we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of Him who worketh all things after the counsel of His own will.”
Marked out to share His glory,
To inherit all with our Lord,
To receive with Him the son-place,
Promised to us in His Word.
Ephesians 1:5 ~ Romans 8:23 ~ Romans 8:28‑30 ~ Ephesians 1:11
             
September 2020
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Friday, October 30, 2020

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“The valley of Baca” means “the valley of weeping.” Most people feel that tears are a sign of weakness, not of strength. But “My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.” So God uses weeping and tears in the lives of His people to cause them to “go from strength to strength.” “His anger endureth but a moment; in His favor is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning,” and “though He cause grief, yet will He have compassion according to the multitude of His mercies. For He doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.” Like Paul, we hear Him say to us by His Word that “My grace is sufficient for thee: for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” And with Paul let us answer, “Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.” “Blessed is the man whose strength is in Thee.” Such “go from strength to strength.” And, beholding in the Word “the glory of the Lord,” they “are changed into the same image from glory to glory.”
God uses tears in His people
To cleanse their spiritual sight,
That they may behold His glory
And live lives filled with His might.
Psalm 84:5‑7 ~ Isaiah 55:8‑9 ~ Psalm 30:5 ~ Lamentations 3:32‑33 ~ 2 Corinthians 12:9 ~ 2 Corinthians 3:18
             
September 2020
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Thursday, October 29, 2020

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God no longer sees the believer in Christ “in the flesh, but in the Spirit.” This is our position in Christ, “to the praise of the glory of His grace, wherein He hath made us accepted in the beloved,” His own beloved Son. “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation.” God “hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.” But though we are “in the Spirit” positionally before God, we are to translate this into everyday experience. “This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other; so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.” “Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.”
The Spirit and the flesh war
For control of our daily life;
If we will follow the Spirit,
He delivers from fleshly strife.
Romans 8:9 ~ Ephesians 1:6 ~ 2 Corinthians 5:17‑18 ~ Ephesians 2:6 ~ Galatians 5:16‑17 ~ Romans 8:12‑13
             
September 2020
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Wednesday, October 28, 2020

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When we received the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior and were thus born again, we were then made “partakers of the divine nature” and “escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.” Nevertheless, we need, in our daily walk in this world, to be, in practice, “partakers of the divine nature” and thus escape “the corruption that is in the world through lust,” and this we do by God’s “exceeding great and precious promises” given to us in His Word. “The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.” As we go continually to God’s Word for help, claiming His promises, we learn by experience that “all the promises of God in Him [Jesus Christ] are yea, and in Him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.” It is “through the knowledge of Him that hath called us to glory and virtue” that we have “given unto us exceeding great and precious promises.” Never be afraid, dearly beloved, to trust the promises “which God, that cannot lie,” promised.
God has given us great promises
For needs of each passing hour,
Guaranteed by Christ our Savior,
Who has been given all power.
2 Peter 1:4 ~ Psalm 19:7‑8 ~ 2 Corinthians 1:20 ~ 2 Peter 1:3 ~ Titus 1:2
             
September 2020
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Tuesday, October 27, 2020

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How very much and how very often we Christians need encouragement. And how very gracious is our Lord to encourage His own. He says to us, “Be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord,” and “be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the Lord thy God, He it is that doth go with thee, He will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.” Our discouragement is often caused by fear: fear of people, fear of circumstances, fear of the future. But “the Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?” There may be adverse circumstances, but “in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us.” The future may look bleak and foreboding, but “the Lord, He it is that doth go before thee: He will be with thee, He will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.” “Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law. … Turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest. … Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.”
The Lord has never failed His own;
He helps them from day to day;
Take courage today, dear pilgrim,
Along your burdensome way.
Psalm 27:14 ~ Psalm 31:24 ~ Deuteronomy 31:6 ~ Psalm 27:1 ~ Romans 8:37 ~ Deuteronomy 31:8 ~ Joshua 1:7 ~ Joshua 1:9
             
September 2020
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Monday, October 26, 2020

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“Religion” is not salvation, but refers rather to outward ceremonies and observances. Thus one may be “religious” without being saved. Paul testified that, before he ever knew the Lord Jesus as Savior, “after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee,” and “in time past in the Jews’ religion … that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it: and profited in the Jews’ religion above many my equals in mine own nation.” Nevertheless, after we are saved, the Lord wants our outward lives to be right, and “pure religion and undefiled” is “to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction.” God has special concern for the “fatherless and widows,” those who are bereft of the fathers and husbands who would ordinarily care for them. “A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in His holy habitation.” We therefore have a responsibility to look out for and to relieve such “in their affliction.” What our Lord will say in a future day to those Gentile believers of the tribulation period who have befriended His Jewish brethren is applicable to us: “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these … ye have done it unto Me.”
God sees the orphans and widows,
And they are His special care;
His Word to us is to help them,
Seeking their burden to share.
James 1:27 ~ Acts 26:5 ~ Galatians 1:13‑14 ~ Psalm 68:5 ~ Matthew 25:40
             
September 2020
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Sunday, October 25, 2020

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“Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.” Nevertheless, our Lord’s word to His own is, “Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.” “Yet a little while, and He that shall come will come, and will not tarry.” He said 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.” 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.” His word is, “Behold, I come quickly; and My reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be,” and “behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.” “Knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.” “Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.”
He shall come with trumpet sound,
To gather home His own,
Washed by His own precious blood,
To stand before the throne.
James 5:8 ~ 2 Peter 3:3‑4 ~ Revelation 3:11 ~ Hebrews 10:37 ~ John 14:2‑3 ~ Philippians 3:20‑21 ~ Revelation 22:12 ~ Revelation 22:7 ~ Romans 13:11
             
September 2020
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