Thanks for all

We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good, if bad, because it works in us patience, humility and the contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.
-CS Lewis-

Psalm 34:11 - 22

Psa 34:11 Come, you children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

Psa 34:12 Who is the man who desires life And loves length of days that he may see good?

Psa 34:13 Keep your tongue from evil And your lips from speaking deceit.

Psa 34:14 Depart from evil and do good; Seek peace and pursue it.

Psa 34:15 The eyes of the LORD are toward the righteous And His ears are open to their cry.

Psa 34:16 The face of the LORD is against evildoers, To cut off the memory of them from the earth.

Psa 34:17 The righteous cry, and the LORD hears And delivers them out of all their troubles.

Psa 34:18 The LORD is near to the brokenhearted And saves those who are crushed in spirit.

Psa 34:19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the LORD delivers him out of them all.

Psa 34:20 He keeps all his bones, Not one of them is broken.

Psa 34:21 Evil shall slay the wicked, And those who hate the righteous will be condemned.

Psa 34:22 The LORD redeems the soul of His servants, And none of those who take refuge in Him will be condemned.

The path to peace

The soul which gives itself wholly and without reserve to
God is filled with His own Peace; and inasmuch as we are prone
to grow like that to which we are closely united, the closer
we draw to our God, so much the stronger and more steadfast
and more tranquil shall we become.
- Jean N. Grou (1731-1803) -

God is in control

When we worship the Lord, let’s remember that He is in control. Nothing alarms Him, or takes Him by surprise. Nothing is too big for Him to handle, or so small it escapes His attention. When the winds of my world begin to blow, He remains seated. When raging waves surround me, He governs their temper…I need not be moved … Because the Lord is seated and sovereign…He alone is sovereign.

- Ronald James -

Fully Relying On God

No soul can be really at rest until it has given up all dependence on everything else and has been forced to depend on the Lord alone. As long as our expectation is from other things, nothing but disappointment awaits us. Feelings may change, and will change with our changing circumstances; doctrines and dogmas may be upset; Christian work may come to naught; prayers may seem to lose their fervency; promises may seem to fail; everything that we have believed in or depended upon may seem to be swept away, and only God is left, just God, the bare God, if I may be allowed the expression; simply and only God.

- Hannah Whitall Smith -

The Daily Wardrobe

In heaven we shall appear, not in armour, but in robes of glory. But here these are to be worn night and day; we must walk, work, and sleep in them, or else we are not true soldiers of Christ.

- William Gurnall -

Job 42:1-6

42:1 Then Job answered the LORD and said,

42:2 "I know that You can do all things, And that no purpose of Yours can be thwarted.

42:3 'Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?' "Therefore I have declared that which I did not understand, Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know."

42:4 'Hear, now, and I will speak; I will ask You, and You instruct me.'

42:5 "I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear; But now my eye sees You;

42:6 Therefore I retract, And I repent in dust and ashes."

Eph 3:14 - 21 Prayer for Comprehension

14 For this reason I bow my knees before the Father,

15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name,

16 that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man,

17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,

19 and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.

20 Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us,

21 to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.

Zephaniah 1:7

"Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord GOD: for the day of the LORD is at hand: for the LORD hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid his guests."