"My suffering was good for me, for it taught me to pay attention to your decrees." -- Psalm 119:71 (NLT)
"Plow up the hard ground of your hearts! Do not waste your good seed among thorns." -- Jeremiah 4:3 (NLT)
"So you must live as God’s obedient children. Don’t slip back into your old ways of living to satisfy your own desires. You didn’t know any better then." — 1 Peter 1:14 (NLT)
"The Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure that a man discovered hidden in a field. In his excitement, he hid it again and sold everything he owned to get enough money to buy the field." — Matthew 13:44 (NLT)
"You anoint my head with oil; My cup runs over." -- Psalm 23:5b (NKJV)
"I don’t really understand myself, for I want to do what is right, but I don’t do it. Instead, I do what I hate." -- Romans 7:15 NLT
This column originally was published April 3, 2015.
Galatians 3:13: “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written. Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree.”
All who do evil hate the light and refuse to go near it for fear their sins will be exposed. John 3:20 NLT
Dear friends, don’t be surprised at the fiery trials you are going through, as if something strange were happening to you. 1 Peter 4:12 NLT
Have you ever been in a crowded room, surrounded by many faces you know and some you do not, and spot someone you are not sure you recognize? To somebody, this person could be their spouse. To another, perhaps their brother or sister. Yet again, this person could be someone’s co-worker, mayb…
2 Samuel 22:3 KJV says, “The God of my rock: in Him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my savior; thou savest me from violence.”
There is a path before each person that seems right, but it ends in death. Proverbs 14:12 NLT
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