Post-o-Matic 3.16

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. Posted on Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:01:00 -0500 at http://www.gnpcb.org/esv/search/?passage=James+1%3A19-20

MorningHaving been set free from sin, [you] have become slaves of righteousness. “You cannot serve God and money.”—When you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? The end of those things is death. But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life.—Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.“If anyone serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there will my servant be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.”—“Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”“O LORD our God, other lords besides you have ruled over us, but your name alone we bring to remembrance.”—I will run in the way of your commandments when you enlarge my heart!Rom. 6:18; Matt. 6:24; Rom. 6:20-22; Rom. 10:4; John 12:26; Matt. 11:29, 30; Isa. 26:13; Ps. 119:32 (Read full verses...) Evening“Everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” Manasseh . . . did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to the despicable practices of the nations. . . . He erected altars for Baal. . . . And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD. And he burned his son as an offering and used fortune-telling and omens and dealt with mediums and with wizards. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger.—And when he was in distress, he entreated the favor of the LORD his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. He prayed to him, and God was moved by his entreaty and heard his plea.“Come now, let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.”—The Lord is . . . patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish.Acts 2:21; 2 Kings 21:1-3, 5, 6; 2 Chron. 33:12, 13; Isa. 1:18; 2 Pet. 3:9 (Read full verses...) << Nov 24 | Nov 25 | Nov 26 >>Excerpted from Daily Light on the Daily Path ©2002 Crossway Books, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Posted on Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:01:00 -0500 at http://www.gnpcb.org/esv/devotions/daily.light/

For if, because of one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ. Posted on Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:01:00 -0500 at http://www.gnpcb.org/esv/search/?passage=Romans+5%3A17

Morning“My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it.” He who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one origin. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers, saying, “I will tell of your name to my brothers; in the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise.”—In Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.—“You are my friends if you do what I command you.”—“Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.”—“My food is to do the will of him who sent me.”If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.—Whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may be sure that we are in him.Luke 8:21; Heb. 2:11, 12; Gal. 5:6; John 15:14; Luke 11:28; Matt. 7:21; John 4:34; 1 John 1:6; 1 John 2:5 (Read full verses...) Evening“What are you doing here, Elijah?” “He knows the way that I take.”—O LORD, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. . . . Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? . . . If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.Elijah was a man with a nature like ours.—The fear of man lays a snare, but whoever trusts in the LORD is safe.—Though he fall, he shall not be cast headlong, for the LORD upholds his hand.—The righteous falls seven times and rises again.—Let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.—“The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”—As a father shows compassion to his children, so the LORD shows compassion to those who fear him.1 Kings 19:9; Job 23:10; Ps. 139:1-3, 7, 9, 10; Jas. 5:17; Prov. 29:25; Ps. 37:24; Prov. 24:16; Gal. 6:9; Matt. 26:41; Ps. 103:13 (Read full verses...) << Nov 23 | Nov 24 | Nov 25 >>Excerpted from Daily Light on the Daily Path ©2002 Crossway Books, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Posted on Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:01:00 -0500 at http://www.gnpcb.org/esv/devotions/daily.light/