 |
|||
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
Bible verse for the day
Words by the Wayside is a Registered Scottish Charity( SC041290), run entirely by volunteers, whose purpose is to spread the Good News that the Lord Jesus Christ is Real and there is peace with God available for you through Him.
Bible Thoughts
Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 | Page 4 | Page 5 | Page 6
And the Lord God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceedingly glad of the gourd.’’ (Jonah 4:6)
When Jonah sat under the gourd, undisturbed and sheltered, all was bright, and he was pleased and thankful; but destroy the gourd and he is filled with wrath and vexation, a disclosure that his resources are really in want pleased himself, and not in God. For the believer to find them in God, and God alone, the gourd must wither. He must have the pre-eminence in all things.
‘‘...I Have learned in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.’’ (Philippians 4:11)
The believer should always be looking to the Lord, accepting the day and the hour He gives, not longing, not looking, for bright days but using the day He gives as He gives it. The desire to enjoy things below must go, because of the things above casting everything into the shade. The glory of Christ eclipses the most beautiful things here, and what once would have awakened sensations of delight must now have no charm for us.
“So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” (Romans 10:17)
Make the Word your study, and your soul will take the colour of it and know the power of it. For the believer there is nothing so effective for silencing doubts, correcting false imaginations, and establishing the heart, as the Word of God. When we have learning to walk in simple dependence on the Word of God, we can never happily substitute anything else for it. It is the Word of God and the God of The Word who will fill our heart and soul.
