Hey friends! We’ve made it to Friday! Got your coffee (or tea or hot chocolate!)? Let’s see what God has for us today in His Word! 📖🌻☕
We are in 2 Corinthians 6 to finish out this week. Now is the day of salvation. Be saved. Be separate…set apart…sanctified. We finish working on Psalm 103:1-10 as our scripture memory passage. We’ll add verse 11 on Monday and we’ll then be halfway through the Psalm! Our scripture writing passage is Isaiah 11:1-5. The Messiah through His human mother Mary’s line descended from Jesse.
“Strong in Suffering” is the title for our excerpt from Streams in the Desert. Tozer writes about “The Worldly Virus” –negative preaching isn’t a bad thing. Sometimes it is simply the realistic thing. “Peace Whatever Exposure” is what Spurgeon addresses in Faith’s Checkbook this morning. We are safe in the covenant God has made with us, no matter what may come. “The wilderness is not a place to dwell in, but the Lord can make it so…it can become the suburbs of Heaven”.
Our scripture prayer list, Advent: Give Me Jesus from His Mercy Is New finds us considering Psalm 27:1 and John 8:12–both concerning how Jesus is light. I neglected to read our portion from The Valley of Vision today, so here it is (with permission from Banner of Truth):
O GOD, May thy Spirit speak in me that I may speak to thee. I have no merit, let the merit of Jesus stand for me. I am undeserving, but I look to thy tender mercy. I am full of infirmities, wants, sin; thou art full of grace. I confess my sin, my frequent sin, my wilful sin; All my powers of body and soul are defiled: A fountain of pollution is deep within my nature. There are chambers of foul images within my being; I have gone from one odious room to another, walked in a no-man’s-land of dangerous imaginations, pried into the secrets of my fallen nature. I am utterly ashamed that I am what I am in myself; I have no green shoot in me nor fruit, but thorns and thistles; I am a fading leaf that the wind drives away; I live bare and barren as a winter tree, unprofitable, fit to be hewn down and burnt. Lord, dost thou have mercy on me? Thou hast struck a heavy blow at my pride, at the false god of self, and I lie in pieces before thee. But thou hast given me another Master and Lord, thy Son, Jesus, and now my heart is turned towards holiness, my life speeds as an arrow from a bow towards complete obedience to thee. Help me in all my doings to put down sin and to humble pride. Save me from the love of the world and the pride of life, from everything that is natural to fallen man, and let Christ’s nature be seen in me day by day. Grant me grace to bear thy will without repining, and delight to be not only chiselled, squared, or fashioned, but separated from the old rock where I have been embedded so long, and lifted from the quarry to the upper air, where I may be built in Christ for ever.
Listen here: https://anchor.fm/thequietrestpodcast/episodes/Quiet-Time-Corner-December-3–2021-Ep-223-e1b0aj7