Called

One day while they were offering worship to the Lord and keeping a fast, the Holy Spirit said, ‘I want Barnabas and Saul set apart for the work to which I have called them.’

Acts 13:2

The New Jerusalem Bible (New York: Doubleday, 1985)

It is always amazing to me that the Lord went forth in His ministry and chose those who were considered outcasts and sinners for His followers. Most of them were uneducated and of lowly standing in their day. One of the worst was Saul, who would be known as Paul, a persecutor who oversaw the stoning and persecution of His saints. He would become the saint who proclaimed the word to the known world at that time. Such is the way of the Lord, who sees the heart of everyone. He knows the total person, inside and out. There is no hiding place or secret He does not know. The chosen, those He calls, are set apart for a purpose of His choosing. All are servants of the most high. All are saints in their own right. Are you one who has been called?

May the good Lord bless and keep you safe.

Remember to "Always Love The Details."

From Dust to Life

 

  The Lord God formed man out of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul

        Gen. 2:7

And so this soul of mine is a compound of two worlds—dust and Deity! It touches the boundary line of two hemispheres. It is allied on one side to the divine; on the other, to the beast of the field. Its beginning is from beneath, but its culmination is from above; it is started from the dust of the ground, but it is finished in the breath of God.

My soul, art thou living up to thy twofold origin? Art thou remembering thy double parentage, and therefore thy double duty? Thou hast a duty to thy God, for His breath is in thee; thou hast a duty to the earth, for out of it wast thou taken.

George Matheson

Samuel G. Hardman and Dwight Lyman Moody, Thoughts for the Quiet Hour (Willow Grove, PA: Woodlawn Electronic Publishing, 1997).

May the good Lord bless and Keep you safe.

Remember to"Always Love The Details.

In the early morning

  In the morning came the word of the Lord unto me

        Ezek. 12:8

A quiet hour spent alone with God at the beginning of the day is the best beginning for the toils and cares of active business. A brief season of prayer, looking above for wisdom and grace and strength, and seeking for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit, helps us to carry our religion into the business of the day. It brings joy and peace within the heart. And as we place all our concerns in the care and keeping of the Lord, faithfully striving to do His will, we have a joyful trust that however dark or discouraging events may appear, our Father’s hand is guiding everything, and will give the wisest direction to all our toils.

Selected

Samuel G. Hardman and Dwight Lyman Moody, Thoughts for the Quiet Hour (Willow Grove, PA: Woodlawn Electronic Publishing, 1997).

It is in the early AM hours that I seek the word of the Lord and write these posts. It is in the quiet solitude that we meet. There are no distractions or interruptions, only quiet solitude. Heart and soul are still. Mind and tongue are quiet. The Lord is present.

May thye good Lord bless and keep you safe.

Remember to "Always Love The Details."

Greater things

  The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day

        Prov. 4:18

Have I begun this path of heavenly love and knowledge now? Am I progressing in it? Do I feel some dawnings of the heavenly light, earnests and antepasts of the full day of glory? Let all God’s dealings serve to quicken me in my way. Let every affection it may please Him to send, be as the moving pillar—cloud of old, beckoning me to move my tent onward, saying, “Arise ye and depart, for this is not your rest.” Let me be often standing now on faith’s lofty eminences, looking, for “the day of God”—the rising sun which is to set no more in weeping clouds. Wondrous progression! How will all earth’s learning, its boasted acquirements and eagle-eyed philosophy sink into the lispings of very infancy in comparison with this manhood of knowledge! Heaven will be the true “Excelsior,” its song, “a song of degrees,” Jesus leading His people from height to height of glory, and saying, as He said to Nathaniel, “Thou shall see greater things than these!”

Macduff

Samuel G. Hardman and Dwight Lyman Moody, Thoughts for the Quiet Hour (Willow Grove, PA: Woodlawn Electronic Publishing, 1997).

What in life has the splendor of life forever more in heaven? No one has seen the full glory of heaven while in mortal skin! What is the price of such a sight as this? None but the Lord knows the answer to that question.

May the good Lord bless and keep you safe.

Remember to "Always Love The Details."

It is good

 

  God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness

        Gen. 1:4

No sooner is there a good thing in the world than a division is necessary. Light and darkness have no communion; God has divided them, let us not confound them. Sons of light must not have fellowship with deeds, doctrines, or deceits of darkness. The children of the day must be sober, honest, and bold in their Lord’s work, leaving the works of darkness to those who shall dwell in it forever.

We should by our distinct separation from the world divide the light from the darkness. In judgment, in action, in hearing, in teaching, in association, we must discern between the precious and the vile, and maintain the great distinction which the Lord made upon the world’s first day.

O Lord Jesus, be Thou our light throughout the whole of this day, for Thy light is the light of men.

Spurgeon

Samuel G. Hardman and Dwight Lyman Moody, Thoughts for the Quiet Hour (Willow Grove, PA: Woodlawn Electronic Publishing, 1997).

Yes, this was part of the creation in the book Genesis. It is also what the Lord is doing in the hearts and souls of mankind. Of this He declares "It is good." The light shining from us when we follow Him is the beacon of His presence in us as poof of His spirit in us. It shows the world we do not belong to this world but the world to come.

May the good Lord bless and keep you safe.

Remember to "Always Love The Details."