Common Grace and Witness (Common Grace, Part 7)
“Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.” Luke 12.27
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On Guard!
The Law of God for Daily Meditation
Morning Meditation
Deuteronomy 13.1-11
1“If there arises among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams, and he gives you a sign or a wonder, 2and the sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, ‘Let us go after other gods’ – which you have not known – ‘and let us serve them, 3you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams, for the LORDyour God is testing you to know whether you love the LORDyour God with all your heart and with all your soul. 4You shall walk after the LORDyour God and fear Him, and keep His commandments and obey His voice, and you shall serve Him and hold fast to Him. 5But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has spoken in order to turn you away from the LORDyour God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of bondage, to entice you from the way in which the LORDyour God commanded you to walk. So you shall put away the evil from your midst. 6If your brother, the son of your mother, your son or your daughter, the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, secretly entices you, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ which you have not known, neither you nor your fathers, 7of the gods of the people which areall around you, near to you or far off from you, from oneend of the earth to the otherend of the earth, 8you shall not consent to him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him or conceal him; 9but you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. 10And you shall stone him with stones until he dies, because he sought to entice you away from the LORDyour God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. 11So all Israel shall hear and fear, and not again do such wickedness as this among you.”
The Day of Visitation
1 Peter 2.12
12…having your conduct honorable among the Gentiles, that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by your good works which they observe, glorify God in the day of visitation.
Psalm 119:59-60
When I think on my ways, I turn my feet to your testimonies; I hasten and do not delay to keep your commandments. When I think on my ways, when I realize and understand the depths of my sin and willfulness, I am driven to seek Your Law for guidance in the Way. Your righteous […]
