Latest Thoughts of the Day

Exodus 3:7

9/18/2026

The Lord said, "I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering."

God is moved by the present suffering of His people, but His vision includes that astonishingly complex real problem that His people have. He will direct Moses and Aaron to address the immediate manifestation of His people’s problem, but it will all be part of His dealing with the entire issue of sin and a redemption that will touch those in bondage to sin throughout the whole Earth. He will be teaching and forming a people for Himself, even as He deals with their enemies. Egypt will pass away, but His people will not pass away, as they are united to His Son who will reign over them forever. Even then He has in mind Jesus.

Genesis 2: 23

9/17/2026

The man said, "this is now bone of my ones and flesh of my flesh. She shall be caled "woman:, for whe was taken out of men."

The task of naming all the animals had brought Adam to the realization that, unlike all the animals God had made male and female, he was alone without a counterpart. God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and God took one of his ribs and fashioned a woman as a companion f=or him. “Man” was “ish” in Hebrew, and Adam called his wife “Isha. God always intended a mate for Adam, but He did not want to create her before Adam recognized his need. Are there not time when God does not do what He intends to do until we ask Him to do it? Did He not wait until we asked Him to give us His Savior Jesus?

Revelation 11:10

9/16/2026

The inhabitants of the earth will gloat and will celebrate by sending each other gifts, because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth.

Unrepentant men had so hated the prophets who had rebuked their sins that they made the death of the prophets a time to rejoice and celebrate. People all joined in by making it a gift-giving occasion and thereby put pressure on one another to participate. Of course, all of them will be horrified to see God raise these prophets from the dead and take them to heaven, but they will probably try to shrug off this occurrence and still enjoy the gifts they gave. Men will be hardened in their sin and simply manage to prepare themselves for God’s final blow. And we would all be with them, but for the Spirit of God opening our eyes to Jesus.

Jude 14

9/15/2026

Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men: "See, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones..."

Very early in the history of mankind the coming judgment of God upon the wicked was clearly revealed. A yearning for that judgment is in all men by nature, since every person wants the wicked person to get what is coming to him. Enoch appears to quote a revelation that God gave very early in the history of man. In the New Testament we are told that Jesus will bring with Him the multitude that have died in Christ as He returns to call forth all bodies from graves and unite bodies with their spirits. The joy of victory and the terror of judgment have been joined in the purpose of God from all eternity. We face it awestruck but unafraid because of You, Lord Jesus.

3 John 6

9/14/2026

They have told the church about your love/ You will do well to send them on their way in a manner worthy of God.

Our hospitality should have the mark of God on it—generosity, abundance, thoughtfulness. God deals with us in such a way, and it will be well for us to treat visiting ministers in such a way. It will also be well for us to send them on their way with something that helps them with travelling needs. God knows our needs before we ask, and grants them out of the riches of His grace. God does not want our giving to impoverish us, but is aware of what is appropriate. “Worthy of God” means “appropriate”, considering how God has dealt with us. These are people we do not know very well and may never see again. We give for the sake of Jesus.

2 John 6

9/13/2026

And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his commnd is that you walk in love.

There are commands in the Bible that involve ceremonial and cultural things that do not touch our lives in a personal way. But John here refers to those commands that affect our relationships with other people. We are to love them. We are to want them to be treated the way we ourselves want to be treated. We are sincerely to desire peace and safety and fulfillment to them in their lives. We are to want God to be as gracious to them as He has been to us. We are not commanded to regard them as appealing people and so to like them. Lord, help us to bear with others because the One who bears with us is Jesus.

1 John 3:12

9/12/2026

Do not be like Cain who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother's were righteous.

The devil would desire to tempt any of us to bitterness, envy and hatred, and we must resist the devil if we would have him flee. Let us be watchful lest any of these creep into our hearts and minds. We can see adversaries as enemies and attribute to them the wickedness that is actually growing in our own hearts. Cain is the one who hated, and the one who killed. Revenge on a righteous brother is the reason, according to God. Someone has pointed out to all of us that when we point one finger at another person, we point three at ourselves. Lord, help us to be not like Cain, but like Jesus.

2 Peter 2:11

9/11/2026

...yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not bring slanderous accusations against suhc beings in the presence of the Lord.

The angels that will bring the ultimate judgment of God upon wicked, arrogant men do not bring their own personal resentment into the picture. There is no wickedness or arrogance in them, so they remain personally aloof, even in the execution of God’s judgment. How different we often are! We positively enjoy putting in our two cents when we are denouncing sin and exposing wickedness. We even kind of pride ourselves on a personal zeal so wonderfully in line with God’s zeal against ungodliness. But the battle is the Lord’s and He doesn’t need our nastiness and pride to accomplish His goal. Our concern, in all our zeal must be to love and serve God. Not reviling was in the character of Jesus.