The word for today is humility. “He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them his way” (Ps. 25:9). “The Lord sustains the humble but casts the wicked to the ground” (Ps. 147:6). “He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God” (Micah 6:8). “Blessed are the gentle, for they shall...
Continue ReadingThe word for today is legalism. “The Lord says: ‘These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is made up only of rules taught by men’” (Isa. 29:13). “Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh? … For as many as are of the works of the Law are under a curse;...
Continue ReadingThe words for today are potter and clay. “And he shall rule them with a rod of iron, as the vessels of the potter are broken to pieces, as I also have received authority from My Father” (Rev. 2:27). “On the contrary, who are you, o man, who answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder, ‘Why did you make me like this,’ will it? Or does not the potter have a right over ...
Continue Reading“When Jesus therefore saw His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He said to His mother, ‘Woman, behold, your son!’ Then He said to the disciple, ‘Behold, your mother!’ And from that hour the disciple took her into his own household” (John 19:26-27). RESPECT Things have come full circle in our family. Don gave our grandson Ian Anderson t...
Continue ReadingThe word for today is race. “Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance, and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at t...
Continue ReadingThe word for today is relationship. “But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name, who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God” (John 1:12-13). “That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ...
Continue ReadingThe word for today is selfishness. “Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind let each of you regard one another as more important than himself; do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others” (Phil. 2:3-4). “Then one of the twelve, named Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests, and said, ‘What are you willing to...
Continue ReadingThe word for today is work. “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty” (Prov. 14:23). “Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men” (Col. 3:23). “Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes, and look on the fields, that they are white for harvest. Already he ...
Continue ReadingThe word for today is criticism. “Now the people complained about their hardships in the hearing of the Lord, and when he heard them his anger was aroused. Then fire from the Lord burned among them and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp” (Num. 11:1). Nor let us try the Lord, as some of them did, and were destroyed by the serpents. Nor grumble, as some of them did, and were destroyed by...
Continue ReadingThe word for today is pride. “Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall” (Prov. 16:18). “To fear the Lord is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior and perverse speech” (Prov. 8:13). “Though the Lord is on high, he looks upon the lowly, but the proud he knows from afar” (Ps. 138:6). “Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is found in those who tak...
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