Meditations of the day

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"Our Father loses nothing. All sheep and goats are His. All piglets are His. All animals on the thousand hills are His including the hills." -D.E.L. Johnson-

 

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“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” - William Faulkner-

“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.” - Alexander Pope-

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” - Paulo Coelho-

“I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.” - Stephenie Meyer-

 

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“The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.” - Barbara Kingsolver

 

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"Everything we see in nature is manifested truth; only we are not able to recognize it unless truth is manifest within ourselves." -Jakob Bohme

 

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"Obedience is an affirmation of faith, a belief that our God is the God above all things, the Good that transcends above all evil, but also the One who remakes that evil from within." -Benjamin Goodman-

 

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“If sin is anything that separates us from God and from each other; and if God is to be all in all, then he must sooner or later destroy all sin and thus remove every stain from his creation. According to the New Testament as a whole, God has a two-fold strategy for accomplishing this end. On the one hand, he sent his Son in the flesh to defeat, in some unexplained mystical way, the powers of darkness and to pioneer the way of salvation —a way of repentance, forgiveness, and personal sacrifice. On the other hand, for those who refuse to step into his ordained system of repentance, forgiveness, and personal sacrifice, he has an alternative strategy: in their estrangement from God, they will experience his love as a consuming fire; that is, as wrath, as punishment, and, in the end, as a means of correction. So in that sense, they will literally pay for their sin; and God will never—not in this age and not in the age to come—forgive (or set aside) the final payment they owe, which is voluntarily to step inside the ordained system of repentance, forgiveness, and personal sacrifice. As Jesus said, using the analogy of someone being thrown into prison, Truly I tell you, you will never get out until you have paid the last penny (Matt 5:25).” - Thomas Talbott-

 

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"God is not the God of limited, He is the God of the manifold wisdom of Himself in Christ Jesus." -David E.L. Johnson-

 

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"The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen." -Elisabeth Kubler-Ross-

 

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"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." -Albert Einstein

 

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“This life is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified.” - Martin Luther-

 

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“Small shifts in your thinking, and small changes in your energy, can lead to massive alterations of your end result.” - Kevin Michel-

 

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"Joy is God's smile; love is God's laughter.” - Matshona Dhliwayo-

“Inward holiness will produce outward holiness, but the outward appearance of holiness is worthless without inward holiness. For example, a modest spirit will produce modest dress, but modest dress is of little value if it conceals a lustful heart.” -David K. Bernard-

 

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^ Old Chinese saying....
Superior virtue does not know virtue,
Inferior virtue practices virtue

 

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“We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.” - John Stott-

"The Bible is red letters & black letters with white spaces between the lines. The word of the Lord is alive and active with the qualities of a sharp two edged sword and a surgeons scalpel." -D. Johnson-

“There have been prophets and students who handle the Bible like a child’s box of bricks; they explain to us the design and structure and purpose; but as time goes on things do not work out in their way at all. They have mistaken the scaffolding for the structure, while all the time God is working out His purpose with a great and undeterred patience.” - Oswald Chambers-

 

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" It is not your hold on Christ that saves you....

It is Christ.

It is not your joy in Christ that saves you....

It is Christ.

It is not even your faith in Christ, though that be the instrument....

It is Christ's blood and merit." - Charles Spurgeon-

"Is it not wonderful news to believe that salvation lies outside ourselves?" - Martin Luther-

 

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“The nature of Christ’s salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day evangelist. He announces a Savior from hell rather than a Savior from sin. And that is why so many are fatally deceived, for there are multitudes who wish to escape the Lake of Fire who have no desire to be delivered from their carnality and worldliness.” - A. W. Pink -

“The center of salvation is the Cross of Jesus, and the reason it is so easy to obtain salvation is because it cost God so much.” -Oswald Chambers-

“Although my memory’s fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior.” ~John Newton