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Will and Peace

May 9, 2019 jakin7

In His Will, Our Peace.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)

I AM

April 21, 2019 jakin7

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life.”  John 11:25a

Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. ”  John 14:6

Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.   Acts 4:12

I am the Living One; I was dead, and behold, I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades.
Revelation 1:18

The Women

April 21, 2019 jakin7

When they came back from the tomb, they told all these things to the Eleven and to all the others.

It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the others with them who told this to the apostles.

But they did not believe the women, because their words seemed to them like nonsense. Peter, however, got up and ran to the tomb.

Bending over, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he went away, wondering to himself what had happened.

  Luke 24:9-12

It Is Finished

April 19, 2019 jakin7

It was the third hour when they crucified him. The written notice of the charge against him read: The King Of The Jews. Mark 15:25-26

“There could be no mistake about the fact of who was really nailed to the cross, for he was crucified in broad daylight. We are fully assured that it was Jesus of Nazareth, for both friends and foes were eyewitnesses of his agonies. For three long hours the Jews sat down and watched him on the cross, making jest of his miseries. I feel thankful for those three hours of light or else the enemies of our faith would have questioned whether in very deed the blessed body of our Master was nailed to the tree” (preached on April 18th, 1886 at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, London). Charles H. Spurgeon

  It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour, for the sun stopped shining.   Luke 23: 45a    

Later, knowing that all was now completed, and so that the Scripture
would be fulfilled, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.” A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it to Jesus’ lips.  When he had received the drink,  Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.   John 19:28-30

 At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. Matthew 27:51a

The earth shook and the rocks split.  Matthew 27:51b

The tombs broke open and the bodies of many holy people who had died where raised to life. Matthew 27:52

They came out of the tombs, and after Jesus’ resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many people. Matthew 27:53

When the centurion and those with him who were guarding Jesus saw the earthquake and all that had happened, they were terrified, and exclaimed, “Surely he was the Son of God!”            Matthew 27:54

 

Artistry and Wisdom

April 18, 2019 jakin7

God humbles his people before he elevates them.

 

He kills  in order to bring them back to life.

He devastates them before honoring them.

He knocks them down in order to pick them up.

God’s methods show the highest  artistry and wisdom.

We cannot understand how events like these are a part of God’s plan until we see his plan completed. When these events are happening, they can’t be understood, except through faith alone… But God does everything in secret. We have to be patient while God hides his intentions from us… God sees everything as if it has all taken place already. Everything he wants to happen will certainly happen.

Martin Luther 1483-1546 (excerpt from Faith Alone A Daily Devotional March 24th)

The Cellar

April 14, 2019 jakin7

 

 

 

When I am in the cellar of affliction, there I found my Lord’s choicest wine.

Samuel Rutherford (1600-1661)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not From Us

March 31, 2019 jakin7

 But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.

We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.

 

 

We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body…

 

Therefore do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.

 

For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweights them all.

 

So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

 

 2 Corinthians 4:7-10,16-18

An Instrument

March 30, 2019 jakin7

                                         Thou hast made man for the glory of thyself,

and when not an instrument
of that glory,

he is a thing nought;  …

excerpt from  The Valley of Vision (A Collection of  Puritan Prayers and Devotions) p.36

I See

March 29, 2019 jakin7

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen,

not only because I see it,

 

but because by it I see everything else.”

C.S. Lewis (1898-1963)

Take Time

February 28, 2019 jakin7

“Take time. Give God time to reveal Himself to you. Give yourself time to be silent and quiet before Him, waiting to receive, through the Spirit, the assurance of His presence with you, His power working in you.

 

 

 

Take time to read His Word as in His presence, that from it you may know what He asks of you and what He promises you.

 

                                       

Let the Word create around you, create within you a holy atmosphere, a holy heavenly light, in which your soul will be refreshed and strengthened for the work of daily life.

From The Secret of Adoration – Andrew Murray (1828-1917)