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> daily devotional
>
>
> Evening ...
>
> Isaiah 54:1 Sing, O barren.
>
>
> Though we have brought forth some fruit unto Christ, and
> have a joyful hope that we are "plants of His own right
> hand planting," yet there are times when we feel very
> barren. Prayer is lifeless, love is cold, faith is weak,
> each grace in the garden of our heart languishes and droops.
> We are like flowers in the hot sun, requiring the refreshing
> shower. In such a condition what are we to do? The text is
> addressed to us in just such a state. "Sing, O barren,
> break forth and cry aloud." But what can I sing about?
> I cannot talk about the present, and even the past looks
> full of barrenness. Ah! I can sing of Jesus Christ. I can
> talk of visits which the Redeemer has aforetimes paid to me;
> or if not of these, I can magnify the great love wherewith
> He loved His people when He came from the heights of heaven
> for their redemption. I will go to the cross again. Come, my
> soul, heavy laden thou wast once, and thou didst lose thy
> burden there. Go to Calvary again. Perhaps that very cross
> which gave thee life may give thee fruitfulness. What is my
> barrenness? It is the platform for His fruit-creating power.
> What is my desolation? It is the black setting for the
> sapphire of His everlasting love. I will go in poverty, I
> will go in helplessness, I will go in all my shame and
> backsliding, I will tell Him that I am still His child, and
> in confidence in His faithful heart, even I, the barren one,
> will sing and cry aloud. Sing, believer, for it will cheer
> thine own heart, and the hearts of other desolate ones. Sing
> on, for now that thou art really ashamed of being barren,
> thou wilt be fruitful soon; now that God makes thee loath to
> be without fruit He will soon cover thee with clusters. The
> experience of our barrenness is painful, but the Lord's
> visitations are delightful. A sense of our own poverty
> drives us to Christ, and that is where we need to be, for in
> Him is our fruit found.
>
> Morning ...
>
> Psalm 51:1 Have mercy upon me, O God.
>
>
> When Dr. Carey was suffering from a dangerous illness,
> the enquiry was made, "If this sickness should prove
> fatal, what passage would you select as the text for your
> funeral sermon?" He replied, "Oh, I feel that such
> a poor sinful creature is unworthy to have anything said
> about him; but if a funeral sermon must be preached, let it
> be from the words, 'Have mercy upon me, O God, according
> to Thy lovingkindness; according unto the multitude of Thy
> tender mercies blot out my transgressions.'" In the
> same spirit of humility he directed in his will that the
> following inscription and nothing more should be cut on his
> gravestone:-
> WILLIAM CAREY, BORN AUGUST 17th, 1761:
>
> DIED - -
>
> "A wretched, poor, and helpless worm On Thy kind
> arms I fall."
> Only on the footing of free grace can the most
> experienced and most honoured of the saints approach their
> God. The best of men are conscious above all others that
> they are men at the best. Empty boats float high, but
> heavily laden vessels are low in the water; mere professors
> can boast, but true children of God cry for mercy upon their
> unprofitableness. We have need that the Lord should have
> mercy upon our good works, our prayers, our preachings, our
> alms-givings, and our holiest things. The blood was not only
> sprinkled upon the doorposts of Israel's dwelling
> houses, but upon the sanctuary, the mercy-seat, and the
> altar, because as sin intrudes into our holiest things, the
> blood of Jesus is needed to purify them from defilement. If
> mercy be needed to be exercised towards our duties, what
> shall be said of our sins? How sweet the remembrance that
> inexhaustible mercy is waiting to be gracious to us, to
> restore our backslidings, and make our broken bones rejoice!
>
> 1 Peter 2:17
> (17) Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God.
> Honour the king.
>
>
>
> Peter, in three words, teaches a very difficult
> concept. He commands us to "Honor the king." The
> historical background of his words should give us a better
> perspective and teach us a powerful lesson.
>
> Peter, having already written that we should honor
> all people, knew some brethren would resist honoring Nero,
> the heathen Roman emperor. Nero was a perverted madman,
> eventually hated by the Romans themselves. He had
> mercilessly tortured and killed hundreds of Christians in
> various cruel and demeaning ways. It is very difficult to
> expect Nero to be honored by someone whose mother had been
> crucified and used as a human candle for one of Nero's
> garden parties!
>
> The pattern that we have seen all along surfaces
> again here. Nero was king. A king is to be honored, for he
> represents the office given him by God (Romans 13:1).
> Whether the king is honorable or not, he is king, and God
> says we should honor him as such. If we are resisting the
> power they have, we are resisting God's ordinance (verse
> 2). Paul even calls the civil authorities
> "ministers" or servants of God (verse 4).
>
> In our time, we have seen a dishonored presidency. We
> do not need details, as we have heard them over and over. If
> Peter were writing today, he would say, "Honor the
> president." As badly as America's recent president
> has conducted his personal life, it still pales besides
> Nero's life, many of whose actions are unprintable.
> Regardless, Christians are still to honor him.
>
> That is a tough order! Many of the early Christians
> no doubt despised Nero's reckless, godless behavior.
> Some had personal reasons to hate him. The commands from our
> King, however, remain the same: Forgive those who trespass
> against you (Matthew 6:14). "Love your enemies, bless
> those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray
> for those who spitefully use you and persecute you"
> (Matthew 5:44). Honor the king.
>
> When we obey God's command to honor all people,
> we are following our heavenly King and honoring Him. Then
> what happens? Jesus answers in John 12:26: "If anyone
> serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My
> servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father
> will honor."
>
> So first we humble ourselves, then give honor and
> respect even to those who might appear to be unworthy of
> honor and respect. The result? God the Highest, the Supreme
> Being in the entire universe, will personally bestow honor
> and glory on those who have obeyed this and other commands.
> This is God's way: The more we give, the more we
> receive. The more honor we give, the more honor we will also
> receive.
>
> Tough as it may be, we should make it our aim to
> honor everyone—all the time.
>
> Staff
> From A Matter of Honor
>
> .
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> daily devotional
>
>
> Evening ...
>
> Acts 8:37 If thou believest with all thine heart, thou
> mayest.
>
>
> These words may answer your scruples, devout reader,
> concerning the ordinances. Perhaps you say, "I should
> be afraid to be baptized; it is such a solemn thing to avow
> myself to be dead with Christ, and buried with Him. should
> not feel at liberty to come to the Master's table; I
> should be afraid of eating and drinking damnation unto
> myself, not discerning the Lord's body." Ah! poor
> trembler, Jesus has given you liberty, be not afraid. If a
> stranger came to your house, he would stand at the door, or
> wait in the hall; he would not dream of intruding unbidden
> into your parlour-he is not at home: but your child makes
> himself very free about the house; and so is it with the
> child of God. A stranger may not intrude where a child may
> venture. When the Holy Ghost has given you to feel the
> spirit of adoption, you may come to Christian ordinances
> without fear. The same rule holds good of the
> Christian's inward privileges. You think, poor seeker,
> that you are not allowed to rejoice with joy unspeakable and
> full of glory; if you are permitted to get inside
> Christ's door, or sit at the bottom of His table, you
> will be well content. Ah! but you shall not have less
> privileges than the very greatest. God makes no difference
> in His love to His children. A child is a child to Him; He
> will not make him a hired servant; but he shall feast upon
> the fatted calf, and shall have the music and the dancing as
> much as if he had never gone astray. When Jesus comes into
> the heart, He issues a general licence to be glad in the
> Lord. No chains are worn in the court of King Jesus. Our
> admission into full privileges may be gradual, but it is
> sure. Perhaps our reader is saying, "I wish I could
> enjoy the promises, and walk at liberty in my Lord's
> commands." "If thou believest with all thine
> heart, thou mayest." Loose the chains of thy neck, O
> captive daughter, for Jesus makes thee free.
>
>
> Morning ...
>
> Psalms 111:9 He hath commanded His covenant for ever.
>
>
> The Lord's people delight in the covenant itself. It
> is an unfailing source of consolation to them so often as
> the Holy Spirit leads them into its banqueting house and
> waves its banner of love. They delight to contemplate the
> antiquity of that covenant, remembering that before the
> day-star knew its place, or planets ran their round, the
> interests of the saints were made secure in Christ Jesus. It
> is peculiarly pleasing to them to remember the sureness of
> the covenant, while meditating upon "the sure mercies
> of David." They delight to celebrate it as
> "signed, and sealed, and ratified, in all things
> ordered well." It often makes their hearts dilate with
> joy to think of its immutability, as a covenant which
> neither time nor eternity, life nor death, shall ever be
> able to violate-a covenant as old as eternity and as
> everlasting as the Rock of ages. They rejoice also to feast
> upon the fulness of this covenant, for they see in it all
> things provided for them. God is their portion, Christ their
> companion, the Spirit their Comforter, earth their lodge,
> and heaven their home. They see in it an inheritance
> reserved and entailed to every soul possessing an interest
> in its ancient and eternal deed of gift. Their eyes sparkled
> when they saw it as a treasure-trove in the Bible; but oh!
> how their souls were gladdened when they saw in the last
> will and testament of their divine kinsman, that it was
> bequeathed to them! More especially it is the pleasure of
> God's people to contemplate the graciousness of this
> covenant. They see that the law was made void because it was
> a covenant of works and depended upon merit, but this they
> perceive to be enduring because grace is the basis, grace
> the condition, grace the strain, grace the bulwark, grace
> the foundation, grace the topstone. The covenant is a
> treasury of wealth, a granary of food, a fountain of life, a
> store-house of salvation, a charter of peace, and a haven of
> joy.
>
>
> Hebrews 3:12-14
> (12) Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you
> an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
> (13) But exhort one another daily, while it is called To
> day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness
> of sin. (14) For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold
> the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
>
>
>
> "The deceitfulness of sin"! In this
> context, to be deceitful is to be seductively and enticingly
> misleading. Sin promises what it cannot deliver. It promises
> pleasure, contentment, fulfillment—life—but its delivery
> on these things is fleeting and ultimately unsatisfying. Its
> deceitfulness is the very reason why it has addictive
> qualities. It lures us on to try to capture what it can
> never deliver.
>
> The pleasure is never quite enough to produce the
> contentment and fulfillment one desires. Thus, people are
> forced into greater and deeper perversions until it results
> in death. All along the way, from its inception to death,
> sin quietly produces hardness of heart. Like a callus that
> forms over a break in a bone or stiffens a person's
> joints, sin paralyzes right action.
>
> "Hardness" is translated from skleruno,
> from which name for the disease multiple sclerosis is
> derived. In a moral context, it means
> "impenetrable," "insensitive,"
> "blind," "unteachable." A hardened
> attitude is not a sudden aberration, but the product of a
> habitual state of mind that reveals itself in inflexibility
> of thinking and insensitivity of conscience. Eventually, it
> makes repentance impossible. The will to do right is
> completely gone.
>
> The will is the power or faculty by which the mind
> makes choices and acts to carry them out. An old adage says:
> "Sow an act and reap a habit; sow a habit and reap a
> character; sow a character and reap a destiny." At
> first, against his will, a person engages in some forbidden
> pleasure out of weakness, curiosity, or sheer carnality. If
> the practice continues, he sins because he cannot help doing
> so; he is becoming addicted to it. Once a sin becomes a
> habit, he considers it to be almost a necessity. When it
> becomes a necessity, the destiny is produced.
>
> John W. Ritenbaugh
> From What Sin Is & What Sin Does
>
>
> .
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