Read Luke 10:25-37: https://egwwritings.org/read?panels=p1965.51800(1965.51804)&index=0 Among the Jews the question, “Who is my neighbour?” caused endless dispute. They had no doubt as to the heathen and the Samaritans. These were strangers and enemies. But where should the distinction be made among the people of their own nation and among the different classes of society? Whom shouldContinue reading “Who’s Your Neighbor?”
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Lord, Take My Heart
Read Luke 18:9-14 here: https://egwwritings.org/read?panels=p14175.52430&index=0 No man can of himself understand his errors. “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?” Jeremiah 17:9. The lips may express a poverty of soul that the heart does not acknowledge. While speaking to God of poverty of spirit, the heart may be swellingContinue reading “Lord, Take My Heart”
Who’s Your Lord?
“And the Lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light” (Luke 16:8 KJV). The worldly man [“the Lord” in this parable] praised the sharpness of the man who had defrauded him. But the rich man’s commendation wasContinue reading “Who’s Your Lord?”
Thirst
We each need to know our own spiritual state of mind and character. God will show us our heart (mind) if we truly want to know it, and surrender it to Him. Let us seek this thirst for God. “O God, thou art My God; early will I seek thee: My soul thirsteth for thee,Continue reading “Thirst”
Listen: The End Is Near
“Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares” (Luke 21:33, 34 KJV). Sad will be the retrospect in that day whenContinue reading “Listen: The End Is Near”
“But the Father that dwelleth in me, He doeth the works”
“Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receiveContinue reading ““But the Father that dwelleth in me, He doeth the works””
The blessings promised: Conditional
“And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: and all these blessings shall comeContinue reading “The blessings promised: Conditional”