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Blessed are they whose ways are blameless, who walk according to the law of the LORD.— Psalm 119:1 (NIV)
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Verse: “What sorrow awaits my rebellious children,” says the Lord. “You make plans that are contrary to mine. You make alliances not directed by my Spirit, thus piling up your sins.”
— Isaiah 30:1 nlt
Thought: God's people were in a very difficult predicament politically and militarily. They saw making alliances with foreign governments their only hope for survival. Why is it that we, the people of God, so easily forget that God is our only hope for survival — not military might, not financial ..
Verse: “How many are mine iniquities and sins?” — job 13:23
Thought: Have you ever really weighed and considered how great the sin of God's people is? Think how heinous is your own transgression, and you will find that not only does a sin here and there tower up like an alp, but that your iniquities are heaped upon each other, as in the old fable of the giants who piled Pelian upon Ossa, mountain upon mountain. What an aggregate of sin there is in the life of one of the most sanctified of God&#..
Key Passage: “'That is why a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife.'”
— Mark 10:7 ERV (Read Full Text)
Key Thought: One of the key elements of marriage as God designed it is the transfer of dependence from one's parents to one's marriage partner. In the vast majority of cultures, it is assumed that the woman will leave her parents to begin her new family with her husband. Jesus makes clear that the man must leave his parents for his wife as well. They mus..
Verse: “Whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.” — pr 1:33
Thought: Divine love is rendered conspicuous when it shines in the midst of judgments. Fair is that lone star which smiles through the rifts of the thunder clouds; bright is the oasis which blooms in the wilderness of sand; so fair and so bright is love in the midst of wrath. When the Israelites provoked the Most High by their continued idolatry, he punished them by withholding both dew and rain, so..
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.— 1 John 1:7 (NIV)
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Verse: [This is what the LORD says,] “They made their hearts as hard as stone, so they could not hear the instructions or the messages that the Lord of Heaven's Armies had sent them by his Spirit through the earlier prophets. That is why the Lord of Heaven's Armies was so angry with them.”
— Zechariah 7:12 nlt
Thought: God had told his people, “Show mercy and compassion to one another. Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil against each othe..
Verse: “Trust ye in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength.” — isa 26:4
Thought: Seeing that we have such a God to trust to, let us rest upon him with all our weight; let us resolutely drive out all unbelief, and endeavour to get rid of doubts and fears, which so much mar our comfort; since there is no excuse for fear where God is the foundation of our trust. A loving parent would be sorely grieved if his child could not trust him; and how ungenerous, how unkind is our co..
Key Passage: “But when God made the world, 'he made people male and female.'”
— Mark 10:6 ERV (Read Full Text)
Key Thought: God's plan, rooted in the creation story of Genesis 2, is that one woman and one man be married for life. As male and female, they are different, yet each one is created in the image of God. They are different—not just because of the difference in their two lives, with different experiences and different tastes, but also because they are made fundamentally differ..
Verse: “Called to be saints.” — ro 1:7
Thought: We are very apt to regard the apostolic saints as if they were “saints” in a more especial manner than the other children of God. All are “saints” whom God has called by His grace, and sanctified by His Spirit; but we are apt to look upon the apostles as extraordinary beings, scarcely subject to the same weaknesses and temptations as ourselves. Yet in so doing we are forgetful of this truth, that the nearer a man lives to God the more intensely has he ..