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The scripture for today, March 20, is Revelation 3:20 as found in the New Testament of the Bible:

New Testament Parchment”Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me.”

A couple days ago we read how the love of Christ is everywhere. But he will not force himself on you. He calls to you and knocks on the door of your heart and mind. If you have too much noise going on in your life ~ coming and going to work, coming and going to clubs, coming and going to education and training and hobbies, you cannot hear him. If the radio and television and telephone and movies are blaring all the time with no silence, you cannot hear him.

Stop what you are doing right now. If there is any background noise, turn it off. Sit in silence a moment. Read a scripture about the life of Christ (Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John) if you have a Bible, and let him knock on the door of your heart. In such silence you will be able to hear him.

He’s calling you! Do you hear?

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The scripture for today, February 1, is Mark 2:1 as found in the New Testament of the Bible:

jesusface“A few days later, when Jesus again entered Capernaum, the people heard that he had come home.”

Just think of it. Jesus coming home. The place where his family lives. The familiar places he’d seen walking around town in earlier years. The familiar faces. Hearing a voice in a crowd and recognizing it and automatically knowing s/he is a neighbor. Being able to walk through a market almost blind folded because the same shops are in their same places selling their same goods.

Has Jesus come home to your heart? Is it familiar to him? Does he recognize you? When he hears your prayers, does he automatically know who you are? Can he walk beside you as you walk through life, knowing the places you will be visiting? Does he live with you? When he is in your heart, is he home?

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The scripture for today, July 10 (7/10), is Psalm 7:10 as found in the Old Testament of the Bible:

“My shield is God Most High, who saves the upright in heart.”

We wouldn’t need a shield if everything on earth was good.  But God gave us free will to love Him or not, to follow Him or not.  He did not want robots to love and follow Him, for that is not true love or true commitment.

And so each of us has an assignment in life:  To bloom where we are planted.  To be strong in the Lord when others want to tear us away from Him.  To be an example.  And when sometimes things get too difficult for us (and they do from time to time), God stands ready to shield us while we rest.

He loves us so.

The scripture for today, June 20 (6/20), is Matthew 6:20f as found in the New Testament of the Bible:

“But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”

In describing heaven, terms are used like pearls, diamonds, emeralds, gold, and so on.  So certainly God is not against riches.  Otherwise he would not have described heaven with those terms.

So what is the problem?  We must ask ourselves, “If I lost everything tomorrow, could I face life?”  We may say yes, but what about friends who are now unsure they want to associate with someone with nothing?  So, it is not only a greed problem, but a social problem.  It is a problem of losing both our possessions and our friends.

Some have solved this problem by moving out into the country where possessions and social status don’t mean so much. Or we could stay where we are and just change our choice of friends.  Our new friends may be truer friends than we ever had before and may need us. 

Lastly, if we lost our job, our car, our home ~ our identity ~ would we be so devastated that we would contemplate suicide as some have done?  Or would we be able to look around us and see what we can do without having possessions and without having a job to occupy our time?  

There are always things we can do for others.  Is that truly where our heart is?  In that case, loss of everything will not bring catastrophe. Rather, it would give opportunity to reveal what stuff we are made of deep down inside where our true treasure is ~ in our heart.

 

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The scripture for today, May 19 (5/19), is Ephesians 5:19 as found in the New Testament of the Bible:

“Speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs.  Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord.”

What is so interesting about this scripture is how we are to make music to the Lord.  In the original Greek the New Testament of the Bible was written in, the term “make music” means to play on strings.  But put with the rest of the verse, we see that it means to play on the strings of our heart.

How beautiful!  In God’s ears, the strings of our heart are far superior to any musical instrument we can contrive.  So, why would we want to use them as a substitute?  Shall we not please the One we are worshiping? Let us be attuned, not to what we love, but to what God loves.

And so, let us sing!  And in the process, let our singing by accompanied by the beautiful strings of our worshiping heart.

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The scripture for today, May 6 (5/6), is Song of Solomon 5:6 as found in the Old Testament of the Bible:

“I opened [the door] for my lover, but my lover had left; he was gone.  My heart sank at his departure.  I looked for him but did not find him.  I called him but he did not answer.”

Jesus is the lover of your soul.  He opens the door for you, but perhaps you’re spending all your time thinking about material things.  His heart sinks when you run away from him.  Oh, how his heart aches with loneliness for you.

So Jesus goes out looking for you.  He looks everywhere you go.  He calls you by name.  But perhaps your life is so full of the noise of doing and going and accomplishing, that you do not hear him.

Stop!  Allow some quietness into your life.  Then listen.  Jesus is calling for you….

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The scripture for today, April 29 (4/29), is Deuteronomy 4:29 as found in the Old Testament of the Bible:

“But if from there you seek the Lord your God, you will find him if you look for him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

God is always nearby, but we do not always acknowledge it.  He will not force himself on us.  So he waits.

There is an old expression, “To know him is to love him.”  This is true also of God.  God is talking to you in his Bible, explaining what he is like and how he reacts to every possible situation in life.  Seek him there.  He is talking to you.

The conversation turns the other way when we talk to him in prayer in response to what we have read, or what we are trying to apply to our lives, or our concern for others.   This mutual conversation with God is the with-all-your-heart-and-soul kind.

And it is good.