Saturday, April 26, 2014
Evening, Apr 26
Blessed is he that watcheth.
— Revelation 16:15
“We die daily,” said the apostle. This was the life of the early Christians; they went everywhere with their lives in their hands. We are not in this day called to pass through the same fearful persecutions: if we were, the Lord would give us grace to bear the test; but the tests of Christian life, at the present moment, though outwardly not so terrible, are yet more likely to overcome us than even those of the fiery age. We have to bear the sneer of the world—that is little; its blandishments, its soft words, its oily speeches, its fawning, its hypocrisy, are far worse. Our danger is lest we grow rich and become proud, lest we give ourselves up to the fashions of this present evil world, and lose our faith. Or if wealth be not the trial, worldly care is quite as mischievous. If we cannot be torn in pieces by the roaring lion, if we may be hugged to death by the bear, the devil little cares which it is, so long as he destroys our love to Christ, and our confidence in him. I fear me that the Christian church is far more likely to lose her integrity in these soft and silken days than in those rougher times. We must be awake now, for we traverse the enchanted ground, and are most likely to fall asleep to our own undoing, unless our faith in Jesus be a reality, and our love to Jesus a vehement flame. Many in these days of easy profession are likely to prove tares, and not wheat; hypocrites with fair masks on their faces, but not the true-born children of the living God. Christian, do not think that these are times in which you can dispense with watchfulness or with holy ardour; you need these things more than ever, and may God the eternal Spirit display his omnipotence in you, that you may be able to say, in all these softer things, as well as in the rougher, “We are more than conquerors through him that loved us.”
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This is the blessing that Moses, the man of God, gave to the people of Israel before his death: (NLT) -Deuteronomy 33:1
Moses was told that very day it would be his last. Suppose for a minute, you knew you were about to say your last few words before you left this Earth. What would your words be like? Would you speak the real, bitter truth because you can? Or would you say sweet nice things so as to boost how you are remembered? Or would you be like Moses and rise above all of that and bless those who have made your struggles even more difficult and challenging? What do you want your last words to be? Don't wait for death to come to proclaim your blessings on others.
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Then make me truly happy by agreeing wholeheartedly with each other, loving one another, and working together with one mind and purpose. (NLT) -Philippians 2:2
As Christians, we are the body of Christ. Disagreements will occur among each other. We have been called to love one another more than ourselves. It gets especially difficult when toes are stepped on and territories are jeopardized. When conflict happens put a lot of effort in working together to achieve His purpose. If we can't love someone who shares our same beliefs how could we show love to those who believe differently? Are you experiencing conflict with other believers?
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Then make me truly happy by agreeing wholeheartedly with each other, loving one another, and working together with one mind and purpose. (NLT) -Philippians 2:2
As Christians, we are the body of Christ. Disagreements will occur among each other. We have been called to love one another more than ourselves. It gets especially difficult when toes are stepped on and territories are jeopardized. When conflict happens put a lot of effort in working together to achieve His purpose. If we can't love someone who shares our same beliefs how could we show love to those who believe differently? Are you experiencing conflict with other believers?
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Morning, Apr 26
This do in remembrance of me.
— 1 Corinthians 11:24
It seems then, that Christians may forget Christ! There could be no need for this loving exhortation, if there were not a fearful supposition that our memories might prove treacherous. Nor is this a bare supposition: it is, alas! too well confirmed in our experience, not as a possibility, but as a lamentable fact. It appears almost impossible that those who have been redeemed by the blood of the dying Lamb, and loved with an everlasting love by the eternal Son of God, should forget that gracious Saviour; but, if startling to the ear, it is, alas! too apparent to the eye to allow us to deny the crime. Forget him who never forgot us! Forget him who poured his blood forth for our sins! Forget him who loved us even to the death! Can it be possible? Yes, it is not only possible, but conscience confesses that it is too sadly a fault with all of us, that we suffer him to be as a wayfaring man tarrying but for a night. He whom we should make the abiding tenant of our memories is but a visitor therein. The cross where one would think that memory would linger, and unmindfulness would be an unknown intruder, is desecrated by the feet of forgetfulness. Does not your conscience say that this is true? Do you not find yourselves forgetful of Jesus? Some creature steals away your heart, and you are unmindful of him upon whom your affection ought to be set. Some earthly business engrosses your attention when you should fix your eye steadily upon the cross. It is the incessant turmoil of the world, the constant attraction of earthly things which takes away the soul from Christ. While memory too well preserves a poisonous weed, it suffereth the rose of Sharon to wither. Let us charge ourselves to bind a heavenly forget-me-not about our hearts for Jesus our Beloved, and, whatever else we let slip, let us hold fast to him.
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