Month: January 2015
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Being humble before God
Psalm 62:7-8 tell me that God still wants me to humble myself when I come before him. More than that, if God is with us, indwelling us as the Holy Spirit, then we are always in the presence of God and not to be humble always. Jesus even said, “I am meek and lowly;” he…
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Finding hope
In Psalm 62:5-6, the psalmist reveals that God is the source of rest, hope, strength and salvation for the souls of human beings. God alone supports us and gives us courage and strength for our challenges. Yet, how many of us believe it? How many of us go to God for courage and strength, wisdom,…
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Close and effective
Matt. 11:10 – 30 says that God wants us to be close to Him to be in relationship with Him, and so God reveals Himself to us in proportion to how close we come and receptive we are to God. The more we humble ourselves before God the closer we come and the more God…
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Grace to deny self
In Luke 9:23-27 and 57-62, we see that God wants wholehearted devotion: not half or three-quarter, nor even the tiniest fraction short of complete belonging to God; but all. This passage reminds me – and probably many others – that while I want to give my whole self to God and even surrender to the…
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Struggling against uselessness
Matt. 4:17 – 23 tells me that God knows our hearts and which of us will follow and obey the Lord. God is all knowing. I am and always have been open to the call of God on my life but I am selfish and given (easily) to distraction, so it has been harder for…
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Ladder to heaven
In John 1:35 – 51, the apostle tells us that Jesus fulfilled the prophecy of Moses in Deuteronomy 18:15 and much more, because Jesus is more than a prophet: Jesus is the son of God. Nathanael believed Jesus right away and was one of Jesus his first disciples. Then Jesus said something very revealing: he…
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The Lord: powerful and glorious
Psalm 29 tells me that it is right to think of the Lord God as being full of glory – even the name of God is glorious. It is right to acknowledge the splendor and holiness of God. God is full of power, majestic and mighty beyond human understanding. In all of time and space,…
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Being true out of love
1 John 4 has much to say about God; but today, I discerned two things in particular: everything that comes from God is true, and God is love. Because God is love, the Lord will not deceive us – ever. Because God is love and God does not change we can count on God and…
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From death to life
John 5:19 – 24 tells us that Jesus, God the Son did only what the Father showed Him. Jesus (God the man) was obedient to His Father. God raises the dead to life, and Jesus also raised the dead to life. When someone is born again, a dead person has been raised to life. A…
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Follow the attributes
When we read John 1:35 – 42 we begin to see – as Andrew and one other did (possibly John, the author and brother of James, because he did not give himself a name) the attributes of God in Jesus. Some of those attributes which Jesus exhibited are humility, frugality, simplicity, honesty, integrity, purity and…