"My son, if you come forward to serve the Lord, prepare yourself for temptation."
-Sirach 2:1
"Those who fear the Lord will prepare their hearts, and will humble themselves before Him."
-Sirach 2:17
Thursday, July 13, 2023
Faith. Job and the old Devil.
“Come to me, all you that are weary and carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you. Learn from me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
-Matthew 11
I was reading commentary on Job, and the author was flustered with the material, positively astounded that Job's friends took him to task so. They accused him of sin, of course, with no evidence and assumed that God was visiting wrath on poor Job.
But quite not. It was the work of the Devil, of course, and in the end, God lifted up Job and restored everything from prior, back into Job's life. That's a sown seed: Job's faith.
Spurgeon on Anger and Sin.
"Doest thou well to be angry?" It may be that we can answer, "YES." Very frequently anger is the madman's firebrand, but sometimes it is Elijah's fire from heaven. We do well when we are angry with sin, because of the wrong which it commits against our good and gracious God; or with ourselves because we remain so foolish after so much divine instruction; or with others when the sole cause of anger is the evil which they do. He who is not angry at transgression becomes a partaker in it. Sin is a loathsome and hateful thing, and no renewed heart can patiently endure it.
-Charles Spurgeon
Verse of the Day, July 13, 2023
Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
-Philippians 2(KJV)
Wednesday, July 12, 2023
On faith.
Faith is that God-given faculty which, when exercised, brings the unseen
into plain view, and by which the impossible things are made possible.
It deals with supernaturals. But it "grows amid storms"; that is, where
there are disturbances in the spiritual atmosphere. Storms are caused by
the conflicts of elements; and the storms of the spiritual world are
conflicts with hostile elements. In such an atmosphere faith finds its
most productive soil; in such an element it comes more quickly to full
fruition.
Verse of the Day: July 12, 2023
But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
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