Tuesday, December 10, 2013
"Can you solve the mysteries of God? Can you discover everything about the Almighty? Such knowledge is higher than the heavens - and who are you? (NLT) -Job 11:7-8
We are so fortunate to have a God who is greater than we can conceive. Would you really want a God that you can comprehend and understand all He does? Isn't this unknown mystery vital for a growing relationship? It keeps us seeking Him out and wanting to know more. Keep seeking God when you are perplexed, He will teach you and infuse new insight into your relationship with Him. What has He taught you lately?
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"Watch out! Don't do your good deeds publicly, to be admired by others, for you will lose the reward from your Father in heaven. (NLT) -Matthew 6:1
While it is nice to be appreciated by others, it is no reason to flaunt our good deeds. To solicit praise publicly is not wise in the long run. You see, our Heavenly Father wants to recognize us for our good deeds. But if we have already received attention on earth for it, then we have already spent the reward. Next time you feel the need to praise yourself, pause and think how much more treasured is a reward from God versus others.
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Morning, Dec 10
So shall we ever be with the Lord.
— 1 Thessalonians 4:17
Even the sweetest visits from Christ, how short they are—and how transitory! One moment our eyes see him, and we rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory, but again a little time and we do not see him, for our beloved withdraws himself from us; like a roe or a young hart he leaps over the mountains of division; he is gone to the land of spices, and feeds no more among the lilies.
“If today he deigns to bless us
With a sense of pardoned sin,
He to-morrow may distress us,
Make us feel the plague within.”
Oh, how sweet the prospect of the time when we shall not behold him at a distance, but see him face to face: when he shall not be as a wayfaring man tarrying but for a night, but shall eternally enfold us in the bosom of his glory. We shall not see him for a little season, but
“Millions of years our wondering eyes,
Shall o'er our Saviour’s beauties rove;
And myriad ages we'll adore,
The wonders of his love.”
In heaven there shall be no interruptions from care or sin; no weeping shall dim our eyes; no earthly business shall distract our happy thoughts; we shall have nothing to hinder us from gazing forever on the Sun of Righteousness with unwearied eyes. Oh, if it be so sweet to see him now and then, how sweet to gaze on that blessed face for aye, and never have a cloud rolling between, and never have to turn one’s eyes away to look on a world of weariness and woe! Blest day, when wilt thou dawn? Rise, O unsetting sun! The joys of sense may leave us as soon as they will, for this shall make glorious amends. If to die is but to enter into uninterrupted communion with Jesus, then death is indeed gain, and the black drop is swallowed up in a sea of victory.
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