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29/12/2021

“Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people...”

— Galatians 6:10

29/12/2021

The English poet John Dryden wrote, “Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.” When people don’t keep their word, the foundations of society begin to shake and things start to fall apart. Happy homes, lasting friendships, thriving businesses, stable governments, and effective churches all depend on truth for their success.

29/12/2021

-Psalm 37:4: “Delight yourself in the Lord.”

If you define joy or happiness or delight or gladness biblically, all of them are moral; that is, they are evil or good depending on whether they are grounded in and reflecting the greatness and beauty and worth of God. It’s possible to have gladness in created things. And that’s not good. But gladness in God is a moral good. It is sin to find your greatest happiness, delight, gladness, joy in created things. And it is virtuous, or morally good, to find your greatest happiness, delight, gladness, or joy in God.

29/12/2021

God is interested in cleansing a sinner inwardly. David prayed, “Create in me a clean heart, O God.” (Ps. 51:10). Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper. By walking in the light, we are able to see the “dirt” in our lives and deal with it immediately.

The blood of Jesus Christ, shed on the cross, delivers us from the guilt of sin and gives us right standing “justification” before God.

(Weirsbe, The Bible Exposition Commentary)

29/12/2021

The purpose of our suffering is to bring God glory.

Rejoice in suffering obviously doesn’t mean that we go looking for whatever suffering we can find. Suffering is wasted when we receive it for the wrong reasons.

(Chris Eelman)

28/12/2021

As a Christian, someone who has put faith in trust in the redemptive work of Jesus Christ through His death on the cross and subsequent resurrection, our behavior mirrors, reflects and resembles Christ.

Being gracious and merciful to others is behaving like Christ.

Forgiving, loving and praying for our enemies is Christ-like.

Welcoming and serving the marginalized, the "least" among us, is being like Jesus.

Caring for the sick, needy, underprivileged, widowed, orphaned, poor, abused, and vulnerable—those who are last—mirrors and reflects the Son of Man.

Striving for justice resembles Jesus.

But it’s not simply good works that make someone a Christian. Being a follower and disciple of Jesus extends beyond our outward behavior. It includes the condition of our heart.

28/12/2021

— Romans 8:33

God the Holy Spirit convicts us of sin, whereas Satan accuses us of sin.

When the Holy Spirit convicts us of sin, he does so to bring us to repentance and reconciliation with God. When Satan accuses us, his purpose is to destroy us.

28/12/2021

“This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.”

—1 John 1:5

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28/12/2021

Hope is alive because it is sure, certain and final.

Hope is based on confident prospects. A happy expectation. A favorable anticipation. Hope is built on a solid foundation of faith that is rooted in the facts of the gospel. “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”

—Heb. 11:1

28/12/2021

—Psalm 119:15

There are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than speech. We should be better Christians if we were more alone, waiting upon God, and gathering through meditation on his Word spiritual strength for labour in his service. We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them. Truth is something like the cluster of the vine: if we would have wine from it, we must bruise it; we must press and squeeze it many times. The bruiser’s feet must come down joyfully upon the bunches, or else the juice will not flow; and they must well tread the grapes, or else much of the precious liquid will be wasted. So we must, by meditation, tread the clusters of truth, if we would get the wine of consolation therefrom. Our bodies are not supported by merely taking food into the mouth, but the process which really supplies the muscle, and the nerve, and the sinew, and the bone, is the process of digestion. It is by digestion that the outward food becomes assimilated with the inner life. Our souls are not nourished merely by listening awhile to this, and then to that, and then to the other part of divine truth. Hearing, reading, marking, and learning, all require inwardly digesting to complete their usefulness, and the inward digesting of the truth lies for the most part in meditating upon it. Why is it that some Christians, although they hear many sermons, make but slow advances in the divine life? Because they neglect their closets, and do not thoughtfully meditate on God’s Word. They love the wheat, but they do not grind it; they would have the corn, but they will not go forth into the fields to gather it; the fruit hangs upon the tree, but they will not pluck it; the water flows at their feet, but they will not stoop to drink it. From such folly deliver us, O Lord, and be this our resolve this morning, “I will meditate in thy precepts.”

(Morning and Evening by Spurgeon)

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