Tag: forgiveness
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Dealing With Regrets
Isaiah 1:18 “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.” Regrets: do you have any? I can tell you that I surely do. From time to time my mind goes to how I…
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Two Great Themes
Isaiah 55:7 “Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.” The Bible is a collection of 66 books written by over 35 different authors. Yet, there are only a few…
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Earnest Love
1 Peter 4:8 “Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.” How earnestly do you love? What’s the extent of it? How far does your love stretch before it breaks? What’s its “tensile strength,” if you will? We can get some insight into this from the verse above. In essence…
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Judgment Day
2 Corinthians 5:10 “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.” As I was thinking about the state of our world at this moment, the verse above suddenly popped into my head. Don’t…
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The Rest of the Time
1 Peter 4:2 “So . . . live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God.” One of my greatest regrets in life as I look back over the years is how I wasted so much time in my youth living not for…
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God’s Great Grace
Hebrews 11:31 “By faith Rahab the prostitute did not perish with those who were disobedient.” One of the things that I am very thankful for is how the Bible doesn’t hide the faults of the saints. It presents their lives warts and all, and it does this for a very specific reason. God wants us…
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The Three Rs
1 Peter 3:10-12 “Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit; let him turn away from evil and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it. For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are…
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So What’s Reasonable?
Romans 12:1 “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.” Some things make no sense. On the other hand, some things make all the sense in the world. It’s to this dichotomy that the passage above…
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Debt
Romans 13:8 “Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.” One of the most uncomfortable feelings in the world is to have a debt hanging over our heads. While we are in such a condition, there’s that constant awareness that we’re under obligation. We…
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Fed Up?
Psalm 136:1 “. . . his mercy endures forever.” Have you ever said or at least had the thought about a person, “That’s it! I’ve had enough!” Maybe you’ve tried to be kind and understanding to that person. Perhaps you’ve done things for them, even over and over again, but it didn’t seem to matter.…
To Encourage You 