Common Grace to Humankind (Common Grace, Part 4)
“But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.” Matthew 5.44, 45
In your face
In his 1903 novella, “The Beast in the Jungle,” Henry James tells the story of John Marcher, a young man persuaded that something amazing or catastrophic lay ahead for him in life. One day it would leap out at him, like a beast in the jungle, and he would either wrestle it into submission or be overwhelmed and destroyed by it.
Things Devoted to the Lord
The Law of God for Daily Meditation
Morning Meditation
Leviticus 27.28, 29
27“Nevertheless no devoted offeringthat a man may devote to the LORD, of all that he has, bothman and beast, or the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed; every devoted offeringis most holy to the LORD. 29 No person under the ban, who may become doomed to destruction among men, shall be ransomed, butshall surely be put to death.”
But You…
1 Peter 2.9
9But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light…
Psalm 106:4-5
Remember me, O LORD, when you show favor to your people; help me when you save them, that I may look upon the prosperity of your chosen ones, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory with your inheritance. Show me all the ways, all the circumstances, all the […]
