Here we are, back together again on this final week of April. 📖🌻☕
Revelation 18 is our chapter for our reading today as we look toward completing the New Testament this week. Our scripture writing is found in 2 Timothy 4:17-18, reminding us that our times are in His hands (Ps. 31:15). We memorize Matthew 5:3-11 this week, and discuss the persecution that is expected and experienced by those who attempt to live out verses 3-9.
Streams in the Desert finds us “Waiting for the Resurrection”–“Our joys are made better if there be sorrow in the midst of them. And our sorrows are made bright by the joys that God has planted around about them.”
Tozer warns us that “Compromise is Costly”–“When the Church joins up with the world it is the true Church no longer but only a pitiful hybrid thing, an object of smiling contempt to the world, and an abomination to the Lord!”
In Faith’s Checkbook today, we are instructed on “What to Leave Children”–“Our integrity may be God’s means of saving our sons and daughters. If they see the truth of our religion proved by our lives, it may be that they will believe in Jesus for themselves. Lord, fulfill this word to my household!”
We finish with Philippians 2:14 as our prayer scripture this week, teaching us about our heart’s inclination to complain and question the providence of God. Along this theme, we consider the hymn text by Fanny Crosby, “All the Way My Savior Leads Me”, and I share some interesting information from her biography.
Thanks for joining me this morning!