- Tuesday, 3/21/17 Psalm
57:2, I will cry unto God most high; unto
God that performeth all things for me. Here’s an Old Testament equivalent
of Romans 8:28. All things: sickness, poverty, trials, conflicts: are FOR you.
Trust Him, and be faithful.
- Tuesday, 3/7/17 Psalm
119:1, Blessed are the undefiled in the
way, who walk in the law of the Lord. There are two conditions to receive
this blessing: 1) be undefiled, i.e. saved.
2) Walk in the way, the roadway of the Bible. Do you qualify?
- Tuesday, 2/28/17
Proverbs 22:13, The slothful man
saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets. I don’t
know if the slothful man is simply making up an excuse, or whether he is a
“worst case scenario” kind of a guy. Either are bad thinking habits.
- Tuesday, 2/21/17 Psalm
102:12a, But thou, O Lord, shalt endure
for ever. Regardless of how hard today is, your eternal tomorrow is doing
just fine, and it’s only a little ways away. So, hang on: you can take what is
on your plate for a short time more.
- Tuesday, 2/14/17
Proverbs 11:2, When pride cometh,
then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom. If God never shows you
anything out of the Bible, check your pride level. “Lowly” means humble or humiliated. Maybe and awareness of, and
confessing of, pride needs to happen.
- Monday, 2/6/17 Matthew
18:33, Shouldest not thou also have had
compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee? Very
simply,whom have you not forgiven (yet)? Whom are you waiting for to “punish
them a little,” or to see if they’re “really sincere”? (See v34-35.)
- Tuesday, 1/31/17
Proverbs 27:22, Though thou
shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his
foolishness depart from him. Do you keep getting punished or going through
the same consequences over and over for your behavior? There’s a term for
that...
- Tuesday, 1/24/17
Jeremiah 5:25, Your iniquities
have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from
you. The statement was true 2700 years ago, and it is true today. Let it
go. Confess and forsake it. For
all of you who hate harsh, direct preaching, see what God told Jeremiah his
preaching was to be like. Jeremiah 5:14, Wherefore thus saith the Lord God of hosts, Because ye speak this word,
behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it
shall devour them.
- Tuesday, 1/17/17
Proverbs 9:5, Come, eat of my
bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled. For wisdom to help you,
you must make it a part of you. Do you try to actually implement what you hear
in SS and church? If you had to tell me, could you tell me what you’re
“digesting” now?
- Monday, 1/2/17 Job
36:22b, Behold, God exalteth by his
power: who teacheth like him? “Lord, help me to trust the teaching methods
that You’re using on me...especially when the class is a hard one and the
concepts difficult.” Read
Ecc 3:1-8. A time to be born, and a time
to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; a time
to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up...
In looking at these 14 pairs of events, sometimes the obvious positive comes
first and sometimes the obvious negative is listed first. Or it is obvious?
(Read them) Lesson: we don’t know which events in our lives are really positive
and which are really negative. Example: Joseph in Genesis; 3 Hebrew children in
furnace; Paul’s troubles; John being exiled...to get the Revelation.