Today's Verse : Romans 1:20

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January 20, 2008

VERSE:
For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities --
his eternal power and divine nature -- have been clearly seen,
being understood from what has been made, so that men are without
excuse.
-- Romans 1:20

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THOUGHT:
What an incredible world we live in! The expanse of space is
humbling. The majesty of the mountain peaks takes away our breath.
On and on we could go, describing all the beautiful, magnificent,
and awe-inspiring wonders of the universe. The variety, the order,
the symmetry, and the unexpected all testify to God, the Genius
behind it all.

PRAYER:
O LORD, Almighty God, your works of creation bedazzle me with
your incredible sense of majesty, grace, wonder, awe, and beauty.
Thank you for making your fingerprints so clearly seen in our
incredible world. In Jesus' name I praise. Amen.

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Today's KJV Verse : Romans 1:20

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VERSE:
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world
are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made,
even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without
excuse:
-- Romans 1:20

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THOUGHT:
What an incredible world we live in! The expanse of space is
humbling. The majesty of the mountain peaks takes away our breath.
On and on we could go, describing all the beautiful, magnificent,
and awe-inspiring wonders of the universe. The variety, the order,
the symmetry, and the unexpected all testify to God, the Genius
behind it all.

PRAYER:
O LORD, Almighty God, your works of creation bedazzle me with
your incredible sense of majesty, grace, wonder, awe, and beauty.
Thank you for making your fingerprints so clearly seen in our
incredible world. In Jesus' name I praise. Amen.

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Daily Wisdom NIV : Proverbs 8:13

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To fear the LORD is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance,
evil behavior and perverse speech.

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The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and
the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.

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Uncluttering, by Patrick D. Odum

Neither do people pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the
skins will burst; the wine will run out, and the wineskins will be
ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are
preserved (Matthew 9:17).

In anticipation of a construction project that will necessitate moving
our church's food pantry, we've been doing a little cleaning at church.
Like a lot of homes -- maybe like your home, in fact -- church
buildings accumulate stuff. And while some of the stuff they accumulate
is important and necessary, a good portion of it is
"we-might-want-to-use-this-again-sometime" stuff. We have a lot of that
kind of stuff lying around, waiting for "sometime." By the look of it,
some of it has been waiting since the Nixon administration.

Anyway, watching people sorting through cabinets and shelves and
throwing out stuff that's no longer useful has me thinking about the
old stuff that one finds lying around church buildings. Old stuff like
hymn books that are no longer used, or leftover Bible class curriculum,
or old sound equipment, or broken furniture. It's got me thinking, as
well, about old stuff like traditions, ways of doing things, values,
and assumptions about the world around us and the community in which we
live. I've been thinking about how most churches could stand to do some
"uncluttering," for lack of a better word. I've been thinking how most
churches need every now and again to look at all the stuff that's lying
around and ask if it's worth keeping.

I wonder if that wasn't what Jesus was getting at with his "new
wineskins" comment. I look at that, I look at where it's located in
Matthew, and it starts to dawn on me what Jesus had in mind. He's
announced to a paralyzed man that his sins are forgiven, and people are
calling it blasphemy because forgiving sins is God's business. He's
invited a hated, traitorous, corrupt tax collector to join his inner
circle. (Imagine, for comparison, if he asked a businessman laundering
drug money for the mafia.) The pious people have called him and his
disciples out for not fasting. He's just about to be touched by a woman
made "unclean" by her constant hemorrhage, and then he'll go on to
touch an "unclean" dead body. He heals the woman and raises the dead
little girl, but clearly he's giving the religious folks plenty of
ammunition.

It happens in churches!

See, I think the folks that criticized Jesus for doing the things he
did needed to clean out their church buildings, if you take my meaning.
They had some stuff lying around that wasn't doing them or the people
God called them to teach and lead and serve much good at all. They had
some assumptions, traditions, and practices that were just taking up
space, causing people to stumble, and getting in the way of the things
that really mattered. But it was stuff that had always been there, and
as far as they were concerned, always would be there. And so they left
it in place and got very grumpy and impatient whenever someone tripped
over it or wondered aloud if it wouldn't be better to toss it out.

It happens in churches. Stuff accumulates over the years. Oh, there's
always a reason that it does, and usually it's a very good reason. At
least at the beginning. Over time, though, the reason fades and what's
left is the tradition, or the practice, or the assumption. I bet you
can think of some stuff at your church like that. A lot of it is
innocuous and harmless enough. I recently conducted an experiment at my
church to try to find out why, after the servers pass the communion
trays, one of them always comes back up to the front to put the lids
from the grape juice trays back on the pedestals that the stacks of
trays start on. The trays aren't there anymore, but someone always
moves those lids. No one seems to know why, but there you are. (The
best answer I got was, "I don't know: so there's room for the offering
plates later?")

A lot of the old stuff that's lying around my church, and yours too, is
like that. It doesn't interfere with anything, and doesn't take up much
space, so why not hang on to it? And some of the old stuff is there for
a really good reason, and shouldn't be thrown out unless it's for an
even better reason. And some of it -- well, it's the equivalent of
walls and columns and floors and ceilings in a building. It's
load-bearing, and to get rid of it would be to forsake the gospel and
cease being the church.

So, really, I'm not advocating throwing out old stuff without
discernment, just getting rid of the clutter!

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(c) 2008 Patrick D. Odum <p.d.odum@gmail.com>.

RELATED LINKS:
* The Clutter of Activity

http://www.heartlight.org/articles/200706/20070626_clutter.html
* Weed, Water, and Share

http://www.heartlight.org/articles/200508/20050824_weed.html
* Cleaning Out!

http://www.heartlight.org/two_minute/2m_990106_cleaningout.html
* Faith Web

http://faithnet.faithsite.com

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Morning & Evening -- Song of Solomon 3:1 and Luke 24:45

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Saturday, January 19, 2008

MORNING:

"I sought him, but I found him not."
-- Song of Solomon 3:1

Tell me where you lost the company of a Christ, and I will tell you the
most likely place to find him. Have you lost Christ in the closet by
restraining prayer? Then it is there you must seek and find him. Did
you lose Christ by sin? You will find Christ in no other way but by the
giving up of the sin, and seeking by the Holy Spirit to mortify the
member in which the lust doth dwell. Did you lose Christ by neglecting
the Scriptures? You must find Christ in the Scriptures. It is a true
proverb, "Look for a thing where you dropped it, it is there." So look
for Christ where you lost him, for he has not gone away. But it is hard
work to go back for Christ. Bunyan tells us, the pilgrim found the
piece of the road back to the Arbour of Ease, where he lost his roll,
the hardest he had ever travelled. Twenty miles onward is easier than
to go one mile back for the lost evidence.

Take care, then, when you find your Master, to cling close to him. But
how is it you have lost him? One would have thought you would never
have parted with such a precious friend, whose presence is so sweet,
whose words are so comforting, and whose company is so dear to you! How
is it that you did not watch him every moment for fear of losing sight
of him? Yet, since you have let him go, what a mercy that you are
seeking him, even though you mournfully groan, "O that I knew where I
might find him!" Go on seeking, for it is dangerous to be without thy
Lord. Without Christ you are like a sheep without its shepherd; like a
tree without water at its roots; like a sere leaf in the tempest-not
bound to the tree of life. With thine whole heart seek him, and he will
be found of thee: only give thyself thoroughly up to the search, and
verily, thou shalt yet discover him to thy joy and gladness.

EVENING:

"Then opened he their understanding, that they might
understand the Scriptures."
-- Luke 24:45

He whom we viewed last evening as opening Scripture, we here perceive
opening the understanding. In the first work he has many
fellow-labourers, but in the second he stands alone; many can bring the
Scriptures to the mind, but the Lord alone can prepare the mind to
receive the Scriptures. Our Lord Jesus differs from all other teachers;
they reach the ear, but he instructs the heart; they deal with the
outward letter, but he imparts an inward taste for the truth, by which
we perceive its savour and spirit. The most unlearned of men become
ripe scholars in the school of grace when the Lord Jesus by his Holy
Spirit unfolds the mysteries of the kingdom to them, and grants the
divine anointing by which they are enabled to behold the invisible.
Happy are we if we have had our understandings cleared and strengthened
by the Master! How many men of profound learning are ignorant of
eternal things! They know the killing letter of revelation, but its
killing spirit they cannot discern; they have a veil upon their hearts
which the eyes of carnal reason cannot penetrate. Such was our case a
little time ago; we who now see were once utterly blind; truth was to
us as beauty in the dark, a thing unnoticed and neglected. Had it not
been for the love of Jesus we should have remained to this moment in
utter ignorance, for without his gracious opening of our understanding,
we could no more have attained to spiritual knowledge than an infant
can climb the Pyramids, or an ostrich fly up to the stars. Jesus'
College is the only one in which God's truth can be really learned;
other schools may teach us what is to be believed, but Christ's alone
can show us how to believe it. Let us sit at the feet of Jesus, and by
earnest prayer call in his blessed aid that our dull wits may grow
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My Utmost For His Highest : "Vision And Darkness"

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VISION AND DARKNESS

An horror of great darkness fell upon him.

Genesis 15:1

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Whenever God gives a vision to a saint, He puts him, as it were, in
the shadow of His hand, and the saint's duty is to be still and
listen. There is a darkness which comes from excess of light, and
then is the time to listen. Genesis 16 is an illustration of
listening to good advice when it is dark instead of waiting for God
to send the light. When God gives a vision and darkness follows,
wait. God will make you in accordance with the vision He has given if
you will wait His time. Never try and help God fulfil His word.
Abraham went through thirteen years of silence, but in those years
all self-sufficiency was destroyed; there was no possibility left of
relying on common-sense ways. Those years of silence were a time of
discipline, not of displeasure. Never pump up joy and confidence, but
stay upon God (cf. Isaiah 1:10,11).

Have I any confidence in the flesh? Or have I got beyond all
confidence in myself and in men and women of God; in books and
prayers and ecstasies; and is my confidence placed now in God
Himself, not in His blessings? "I am the Almighty God" - El-Shaddai,
the All-Powerful God. The one thing for which we are all being
disciplined is to know that God is real. As soon as God becomes real,
other people become shadows. Nothing that other saints do or say can
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Praying with Paul : "My Faith"

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MY FAITH

Romans 4:22-25

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Dear Father, our Savior,

Thank you for Abraham's example of a faith credited as
righteousness. And thank you that these words are written not only
for Abraham's sake, but for ours as well - that faith will be
credited as righteousness to those who believe in you, the God who
raised from the dead Jesus our Lord, who was put to death for our
misdeeds and was raised for our justification.

Thank you for so wonderful a salvation, precious God.

In the name of Jesus I ask this and by his authority I lift up my
faith as the only thing I have to offer you. Amen.

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WJD! -- Gone in an Instant -- Mark 1:29-31

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Saturday, January 19, 2008

Gone in an Instant

Jesus and the followers left the synagogue. They all went
with James and John to the home of Simon and Andrew. Simon's
mother-in-law was very sick. She was in bed and had fever.
The people there told Jesus about her. So Jesus went to her
bed. Jesus held her hand and helped her stand up. The fever
left her, and she was healed. Then she began serving them.

-- Mark 1:29-31 (ERV)

KEY THOUGHT:
Jesus leaves no doubt in his power over illness; he sees the illness
and cures it. It is gone in an instant. With the touch of Jesus' hand
and the power of his grace, Peter's mother-in-law goes from bedridden
to healthy hostess preparing a meal. As impressive as this kind of
miracle is, think about the change that same grace has in our spiritual
lives. Salvation is a great miracle in each life God's grace and Jesus'
love touches. Our sin is gone in an instant. Our future is changed for
the better in an instant. Our hopes are raised in an instant. While our
lives as disciples will be gradual progressions of transformation to
become more like Christ, our lives are changed in an instant. Such is
the power, love, and grace of our Lord!

TODAY'S PRAYER:
Father in heaven, thank you for the life-changing power of your grace
demonstrated to me in the sacrifice of Jesus and the work of your Holy
Spirit. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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