A Good Habit

“Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” (2 Timothy 2: 15 KJV)

Are you a daily Bible reader?  How much time do you spend each day reading the Bible? An hour?  Half hour?  Five minutes?  A minute?  No time?

Woodrow Wilson once said, “A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the world who has deprived himself of a knowledge of the Bible.”  A man who does not read God’s Word has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

THE RIGHT SONG; THE WRONG SIDE

Having encamped on the shore of the Red Sea following their deliverance from Egypt and looking back seeing Pharaoh and his army “marching after them,” the  Israelites “were terrified and cried out to the Lord.” (Exodus 14:10)  They submitted this question   to Moses, ”What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?” (verse 11)  “Didn’t we say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone; let us serve the Egyptians?’ It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert,” they said. (verse 12)

Have they so soon forgotten God’s power manifested in the plagues, including the fact

DUTY, HONOR, GOD

“So you also, when you have done everything you were told to do, should say, ‘we are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.’” (Luke 17: 10)

“Duty,” said Robert E. Lee, “is the most precious word in the English language.”  Douglas MacArthur, another great military leader, summed up three great motivations for the soldier in his stirring speech, “Duty, Honor, Country.”  Solomon gave this summation of life in Ecclesiastes 12: 13, “…Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.”  We might well rephrase the title of MacArthur’s speech, 
“Duty, Honor,

Unshakable

Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. Hebrews 12: 26-27, Haggai 2:6

One day when the “earth and the heavens will be shaken,” only “what cannot be shaken will remain.” Here the “Hebrews” writer is speaking of the “seen” and the “unseen,” the “visible” and the “invisible,” the “temporary” and the “eternal.”

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Grumbling

We are often unhappy becauswe we choose to be. Let’s think about our outlook for a bit.