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Bible verse for the day
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Bible Thoughts
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‘‘...And Moses said unto them, this is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat. And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.’’ (Exodus 16:15&21.)
The manna was gathered before the sun was up, just as the believers heart is to be stored with Christ before the demands of the day begin. If your soul has been fed with Christ for the day, it is sufficient for the day. The day’s provision was given before the days troubles or opportunities came on.
“And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue, knowledge; and to knowledge, temperance; and to temperance, patience; and to patience, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.”
(2nd Peter Chapter 1; Verses 5-9)
In the things of God there can be no standing still. Not to be growing, is to be declining. Like Lot who lived in Sodom who vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds, who prospered in their world and became a great man, but had leanness in his soul. He that lacketh these things is blind; like Samson after he had lain in Delilah’s lap. First, the eyes are dimmed wilfully to Gods truth; evil is condoned; trifled with; then the conscience loses its sensitiveness; and the backslider practically forgets the cleansing from his old sins. Things he would have shuddered at doing just after his conversion, when the cross and sufferings of his Saviour was full in view and his conscience keen, he can do now, yes and probably defend them too: for when one goes wrong in practise , he must alter his doctrine to suit his ways. Only by walking in the fear of God and obedience to his ways for us, can we maintain a conscience sensitive to evil, and be saved from becoming blind to Gods truth.
