Tuesday, April 7, 2020
Know the Bible
Search the Book of the Lord . . .
Isaiah 34:16---Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of
these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth, it hath commanded, and
his spirit it hath gathered them.
Knowledge of the Bible is essential to a rich and meaningful life.
For the words of this Book have a way of filling in the missing pieces,
of bridging the gaps, of turning the tarnished colors of our life to jewel-like
brilliance.
Learn to take every problem to the Bible.
Within its pages, you will find the correct answer.
But most of all, the Bible is a revelation of the nature of God.
The philosophers of the centuries have struggled with the problem of a
Supreme Being. Who is He?
What is He?
Where is He?
If there is such a Person, is He interested in me?
If so, how can I know Him?
These and a thousand other questions about God are answered in this
Holy Book we call the Bible.
By, Dr. Billy Graham
Monday, April 6, 2020
What a Savior!
Luke 24:46---And said unto them, Thus
it is written, and thus it behooved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead
the third day:
What was the power and influence that changed the cross from the instrument of bloody torture into the most glorious and beloved of all symbols?
The Romans crucified thousands of people before and after Calvary.
If Jesus had not risen from the dead, no right-minded person would have
glorified anything as hideous and repulsive as a cross stained with the blood
of Jesus.
By the miracle of His rising from the grave, Jesus placed the seal of
assurance upon the forgiveness of our sins.
A dead Christ could not have been our Savior.
An unopened grave would never have opened heaven.
By bursting the chains of the tomb, Jesus proved Himself to all ages
the conqueror of sin.
The sacrifice on Calvary had fulfilled its purpose; the ransom price
paid for your sins and mine had been accepted by God. Hallelujah, what a
Savior!
Sunday, April 5, 2020
Empty Self Of Self
Psalm 34:18---
The LORD is nigh unto them that
are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
In God’s
economy, you must go down into the valley of grief before you can scale the
heights of spiritual glory.
You must
become tired and weary of living alone before you seek and find the fellowship
of Christ.
You must
come to the end of self before you begin to live.
The mourning
of inadequacy is a weeping that catches the attention of God.
The Bible
says, “The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart, and saveth such
as be of a contrite spirit.”
The happiest
day of my life was when I realized that my own ability, my own goodness, and my
own morality was insufficient in the sight of God, and I publicly and openly
acknowledged my need for Christ as a boy, just 15 years old.
I am not
exaggerating when I say that my mourning was turned to joy and my sighing into
singing that day.
Saturday, April 4, 2020
Not Just a Man
Colossians
1:17---And he is before all things, and by him, all things consist.
Napoleon was right when he said, “I know men, and I tell you, Jesus is
more than a man. Comparison is impossible between Him and any other human being
who ever lived because He was the Son of God.”
Emerson was right when he replied to those who asked him why he did not
include Jesus among his Representative Men, “Jesus was not just a man.”
Arnold Toynbee was right when he said, “As we stand and gaze with our
eyes fixed upon the farther shore, a simple figure rises from the flood and
straightway fills the whole horizon of history.
There is the Savior.”
By Dr. Billy Graham
Friday, April 3, 2020
Use Your Mind
Mark 12:30---And
thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and
with all thy mind . . .
Christ touches every area of our lives. He touches our minds and we are
transformed by the renewing of our minds. God invites people to use their
minds, “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord” (Isaiah 1:18). We
are told in Scripture not to be like the horse or mule, “which have no
understanding” (Psalm 32:9). Christ declared that we are to love the Lord our
God with all our heart, soul, strength, and mind. We are told to fear God, to
love Christ, and to hate sin. Fear, love, and hate are emotions. Dr. Leslie
Weatherhead, preaching at the City Temple in London, said, “What is wrong with
emotion? Christianity is falling in love with Christ. Has anyone ever fallen in
love without emotion?”
By Dr. Billy Graham
Thursday, April 2, 2020
Glory in the Cross
Galatians 6:14---But
God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by
whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.
What glory is there in the cross?
It was an instrument of torture and shame.
Why did Paul glory in it?
He gloried in it because the most selfless act ever performed by men or
angels took place upon it.
He saw-emanating from that rough, unartistic beam upon which the Son of
God had been crucified the radiant hope of the world, the end of the believer’s
bondage to sin and the love of God shed abroad in the hearts of men.
A lone man dying on a cross did more to restore man’s lost harmony with
God, his fellowman, and himself than the combined genius and power of earth’s
mighty.
With my finite limitations, I cannot fully comprehend the mystery of
Christ’s atonement.
I only know that all who come to the cross in simple, trusting faith
lose all their guilty stains and find peace with God.
By Dr. Billy Graham
Wednesday, April 1, 2020
Die to Yourself
Psalm 34:18---The
LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a
contrite spirit.
In God’s economy, you must go down into the valley of grief before you
can scale the heights of spiritual glory.
You must become tired and weary of living alone before you seek and
find the fellowship of Christ.
You must come to the end of self before you begin to live.
The mourning of inadequacy is a weeping that catches the attention of
God.
The Bible says, “The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart;
and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.”
The happiest day of my life was when I realized that my own ability, my
own goodness and my own morality was insufficient in the sight of God, and I
publicly and openly acknowledged my need for Christ.
I am not exaggerating when I say that my mourning was turned to joy,
and my sighing into singing.
By Dr. Billy Graham
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