Latest Thoughts of the Day

Exodus 20:1

1/22/2025

And God spoke all these words:

God brought all of creation into being by speaking. He sustains all things by the word of His power. He has ordained that it will be through the medium of words that He will reveal Himself to man. His wisdom and power can be seen by all in the physical realm, but understanding His wisdom and describing His power depends upon words. Angels in heaven have words with which to worship God. Man alone among the creatures of the earth is granted this means whereby he may experience God. God speaks that we may know Him and ourselves. Help us, Lord, to receive and understand the words You speak to us. We want to know You and worship You and live for You. We long for the wonderful words of life. May Your Word speak to our hearts through Your Son, Jesus.

Genesis 25:1

1/21/2025

Abraham took another wife, whose name was Keturah.

Many years before, God had told Abraham that he would be the father of many nations, but that the most important of them would be those descended from Isaac. His taking Keturah as a wife was a part of that very complex picture. Abraham will subsequently give gifts to all who descended from him and send them away, leaving all he possessed to Isaac. God’s promise to Abraham will go beyond all these nations, however, and in Abraham’s Seed, all the nations of the earth will be blessed. The blessing has reached even us. We do not need to prove a connection with Keturah. A connection with Abraham is enough, and God brought that about when we were born again into a living relationship with God. Not through Keturah, but through Sarah, God purposed to send into the world Jesus.

Revelation 22:11

1/20/2025

Let him who does wrong continue to do wrong; let him who is vile continue to be vile; let him who does right continue to do right; and let him who is holy continue to be holy.

What category of person you are in at the coming of our Lord Jesus in power and glory will be set for all eternity. There will be no improvement of the imperfect and no degeneration of the righteous. That’s it! We’re through! In this life there is always hope. It may be that you will repent and be forgiven. Now is the day of salvation. God has said that His Spirit will not always strive with man. God has told us that there is a day when the door will be shut. Help us, Lord, to live today in the light of Your salvation. Help us today to walk with Jesus.

Jude 13

1/19/2025

They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.

There is confusion, error and mistake in much of the theological world, but underneath it all and moving methodically is a spirit of resistance to God that uses every advantage to destroy and overturn. Jude is alarmed at the random hatred and resistance to the truth that works underneath and through the forces of darkness in this world. We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers whose condemnation is already pronounced, and who will never be reconciled to God. Knowing this, we can face most of the opposition we encounter with compassion and concern, knowing that these “enemies” are themselves entrapped by evil. God will destroy the forces behind it all. May He enable us to rescue the perishing, bringing them to Jesus.

3 John 9

1/18/2025

I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first, will have nothing to do with us

Pride and selfishness and wanting to be number one can lead a person to lie and slander, to manipulate others and to reject those who do not agree with us. It can even lead to our resisting and rejecting the word of God given by an Apostle. It did this to Diotrephes, and it made him famous to the end of time as a shame and disgrace in the church of Christ. But those same emotions and inclinations exist is us. We are selfish, and we want things our own way. We are stubborn, and we can see in ourselves a potential rejection even of the word of the Apostles. Deliver us from these things, O Lord, and help us to deliver others for the glory of Jesus.

2 John 7

1/17/2025

Many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh have gone out into the world. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist.

One could almost personify the attacks on Christ as “the deceiver” or as “the antichrist”. Whatever direction they go and whatever particular element they focus upon, the intent is to undermine the delicate truth about Jesus that God has given us in His Word. We do not need to argue against every distortion or correct every error or refute every argument. We simply need to be on guard that we hold fast the truth that has been given by drawing near to the Person of our Lord. He can defend Himself in the minds and hearts of those who are trusting in Him. Our desire and our goal must be to encourage one another to draw near to Jesus.

1 John 5:11

1/16/2025

And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.

God sent His only Son that we should not perish, but should have eternal life. Jesus is God’s gift to us, and eternal life is given as we are joined by faith to Him. This is the theme John reiterates again and again in his wonderful book. Not to have Jesus is the very worst of calamities. Having Him is eternal life. The natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God. But God, by His work in us has opened our eyes to behold and desire to draw near to Him. In Him we have life. In Him we have blessing for all eternity. God has so ordained that all things come together and have their fruition in the Person of His Son, our Lord, Jesus.

2 Peter 3:10

1/15/2025

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar, the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare.

We are told that water is a special bond between hydrogen and oxygen. If God breaks that bond, the oceans themselves will burst into flame. Our lives are balanced precariously on the edge of destruction, and it is God’s purpose alone that keeps us busy and active. Peter will go on to ask us what kind of life we should live if destruction at God’s hand is so easy as to be imminent. We know that the answer is that we should live in the fear of God waiting for the day when the Lord will be done with it all. He has granted us eternal life in His Son, Jesus.