Wednesday, December 31, 2003

Morning by Morning Devotional: John 7:37 "In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, if any man thirst, let him come unto Me and drink." No other distinction is made but that of thirst. Whether it be the thirst of avarice, ambition, pleasure, knowledge, or rest, he who suffers from it is invited. The thirst may be bad in itself, and be no sign of grace, but rather a mark of inordinate sin longing to be gratified with deeper draughts of lust; but it is not goodness in the creature which brings him the invitation, the Lord Jesus sends it freely, and without respect of persons. -- C. H. Spurgeon 6:23:56 AM    comment

Daily Devotional: Isaiah 52:12 You shall not go out with haste, . . . for the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rear guard Our present enjoyment of God's grace tends to be lessened by the memory of yesterday's sins and blunders. But God is the God of our yesterdays, and He allows the memory of them to turn the past into a ministry of spiritual growth for our future. -- Oswald Chambers 5:46:02 AM    comment

Memory verse: 1 John 3:8 He who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil's work. 5:17:41 AM    comment