Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life;

 Starry night sky

John 5.39

 

Every few years or so, when I put my head on my pillow at night, I ask myself, “Where will I go if I die tonight in my sleep?”

 

“If I die tonight, do I know for sure where I will go?  Am I saved?”  I try to imagine that I do not know for sure.  I think about who I really am, as a sinner.  I face myself in all my sin.  The sin easy to see and the sins of my heart – are they gone?  Are they forgiven?

 

Then I ask myself again, “Am I really saved?”  “Do I know for sure?”

 

...quiet from fear...

Woman in peace

“...quiet from fear...”

Proverbs 1.33

 

“Knock knock.”  “Who’s there?”  “Fear!”  When was the last time “Fear” knocked on our door?  Who did we send to answer?  Was it Fear’s best mate, Worry?  Or Fear’s brother, Self-Centered?  The next time Fear knocks on our door let’s send this “quiet” little verse to answer the door!

“But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely,

and shall be quiet from fear of evil.”

 

...and enjoy it...

green grass with sunlight

Some people would never believe the word “enjoy” was in the Bible!

 

Some people believe the Bible is only about the “don’t’s” of life.  You know, “Don’t do this”, and “Don’t do that”.  Some think the Bible is all about the “can’t’s”.  “Can’t this”, and “Can’t that” and “Can’t the other!”

 

Impossible that the Bible would use the word “enjoy”!

 

…yet trouble came.

Woman in despair

“…yet trouble came.”

Job 3.26

Somehow that doesn’t sound very good

                                                                                     “…yet trouble came.”

 

Here Job says that he is struggling.  He says -

that his life is difficult and he is seriously and honestly trying to understand why it is so.  

 

Thy word have I hid...

Hammer and anvil

The Anvil of God's Word

 

“Last eve I paused beside the blacksmith’s door,
And heard the anvil ring the vesper chime;
Then looking in, I saw upon the floor,
Old hammers, worn with beating years of time.

“‘How many anvils have you had,’ said I,
‘To wear and batter all these hammers so?’
‘Just one,’ said he, and then with twinkling eye,
‘The anvil wears the hammers out, you know.’

Ye shall be...

Earth

“Ye shall be…”

Acts1.8

I love the way the above verse gives us a promise as well as a mission!

  “Ye shall be…”

When it is God’s will, things can move very quickly.

Adoniram Judson was an unsaved, unconverted man when he enrolled in Andover Theological Seminary.  Later that year, in September 1808, he was born-again and his study of the Word of God took on a new nature.

Neither pray I for these alone...

Hands folded on Bible

“Neither pray I for these alone...”

John 17.20

In John chapter 17 we see the Prayer of our Lord Jesus Christ which He prayed just moments before He was betrayed and taken to be crucified.

He was specifically praying for His disciples, that first church, but in the prayer we see our Lord often praying for us when He said such things as, “Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;”.

Jesus was praying for me?

What do these feeble Jews?

Man looking out of window

“But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that 

we builded

the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation,

and mocked the Jews.

And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews?

Nehemiah 4.1-2a

 

And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man...

young man's eyes

"And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man..."

2 Kings 6.17

Deadly Poison

“...full of deadly poison.” - The Bible

 

The Bible says that something is... “full of deadly poison”!

 

What?

 

What would the Bible say is “full of deadly poison”?

 

The way the Bible says it is pretty descriptive:

 

full

 

of deadly...

 

poiiissssssoonnn.

                                                (Emphasis mine)

 

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