Verse of the Day, July 20, 2023

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.  -1 John

Verse of the Day, July 19, 2023

Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.  -Isaiah 41(KJV)

 

Faith Love and Hope, as a lens towards our own sin and righteousness.

When our eyes are opened through the Lord's Faith Love and Hope, it makes our sin more plain to us, and makes more obvious, perhaps, but also staggering, the breadth of His gift of righteousness to us.

"...I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ..."  -Paul in the books of Romans.

 

Verse of the Day, July 18, 2023

I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.  -Psalm 119(KJV)

Isaiah 55: "my shall not return to me void".

Thus says the Lord:
Just as from the heavens
the rain and snow come down
and do not return there
till they have watered the earth,
making it fertile and fruitful,
giving seed to the one who sows
and bread to the one who eats,
so shall my word be
that goes forth from my mouth;
my word shall not return to me void,
but shall do my will,
achieving the end for which I sent it.
 

- Isaiah 55:10-11

May it be, Lord, and let us all be instruments of your will, and not instruments of Satan.  Only the Lord's Perfect Will.

Verse of the Day, July 16, 2023

For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head over every power and authority. 

Augustine on Christ, writing to a student of his.

Begotten and conceived, then, without any indulgence of carnal lust, and therefore bringing with Him no original sin, and by the grace of God joined and united in a wonderful and unspeakablr way in one person with the Word, thr Only-begotten of the Father, a son by nature, not by grace, and therefore having no sin of His own; nevertheless, on account of the likeness of sinful flesh in which He came, He was called sin, that He might be sacrificed to wash away sin.