O Lord, you have searched me,
and you know me.
You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar.
You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways.
Before a word is on my tongue
You know it completely, O Lord.
You hem me in – behind and before;
you have laid your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too lofty for me to attain.
Psalm 139:1-6
Patience is not indifference; patience conveys the idea of an
immensely strong rock withstanding all onslaughts. The vision
of God is the source of patience, because it imparts a moral
inspiration. Moses endured, not because he had an ideal of
right and duty, but because he had a vision of God. He “endured,
as seeing Him Who is invisible.” A man with the vision of God is
not devoted to a cause or to any particular issue; he is devoted
to God Himself.
My Utmost For His Highest (May 2nd) by Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
Though it linger, wait for it; it will certainly come and will not delay.
Habakkuk 2:3b
He said:
“The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer;
my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge,
my shield and the horn of my salvation.
He is my stronghold, my refuge and my savior—
from violent men you save me.
I call to the Lord, who is worthy of praise,
and I am saved from my enemies.
The waves of death swirled about me; the torrents
of destruction overwhelmed me.
The cords of the grave coiled around me;
the snares of death confronted me.
In my distress I called to the Lord;
I called out to my God.
From his temple he heard my voice;
my cry came to his ears.
2 Samuel 22: 2-7
There was a man who was sent from God; his name was John. He came as a witness to testify
concerning that light, so that through him all might believe. He himself was not
the light; he came only as a witness to the light.
The true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world. He was in
the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize
him. He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.
Yet to
all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to
become children of God— children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision
or a husband’s will, but born of God.
John 1:6-13
let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in the full assurance
of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty
conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water.
Let us hold unswerving to the hope we profess, for he who promised
is faithful.
And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and
good deeds.
Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of
doing, but let us encourage one another—and all the more as you see the
Day approaching.
Hebrews 10:22-25
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,
neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth,
nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love
of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:38,39
“What about supernatural forces?
What about people and power and demons and strange forces?” …
“There is nothing left out of that list, is there? Everything
is there – demons and dark powers, black magic and angels,
truth and error, death and life – whether in this creation
or any other creation. Paul takes everything in and says that
nothing, no being or force, is capable of separating us from
the love of Jesus Christ our Lord.
So we love God when we
say,” If God be for us, who can be against us?” We love God
because of what he himself has done on our behalf, and the
nature of that commitment is that he loves us. Nothing can
separate us from that.”
Expository Studies in Romans 1-8 From Guilt to Glory Vol 1
by Ray C. Stedman P.258
