Tuesday, March 28, 2023
Saturday, March 25, 2023
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Sunday, March 19, 2023
Saturday, March 18, 2023
Friday, March 17, 2023
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
Tuesday, March 14, 2023
Monday, March 13, 2023
Sunday, March 12, 2023
Put on the whole armour of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places... (Ephesians 6:10-12)
Friday, March 10, 2023
Thursday, March 9, 2023
For what shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or hardship, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord... (Romans 8:35; Romans 8:38-39)
Do not judge, or you will be judged. For in the same way you judge, you yourself will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured against you... So Jesus said to him, "Simon, I have something to tell you... A certain lender had two debtors. The one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. When they could not pay, he forgave them both. Which of them therefore will love him most?" Simon answered, "I suppose, to whom he forgave the most." Jesus replied, "You have judged correctly." Turning to the woman, He said, "Do you see this woman? I entered into your house, and you gave Me no water for My feet, but she has washed My feet with her tears, and wiped them with her hair. You gave me no kiss, but she, since the time I entered your house, has not ceased to kiss My feet. You did not anoint My head with oil, but she has anointed My feet with ointment. Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little..." (Matthew 7:1-2; Luke 7:40-46)
Now there was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day. But there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, full of sores, who was laid at his gate, desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table but no one would give him. Moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. Then it came to pass that the poor man died, and he was carried away by the angels into the bosom of Abraham. The rich man also died and was buried. And being in torments in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. “Then he cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.’ But Abraham answered, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus received evil things; but now he is comforted and you are tormented. And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who want to pass from here to you cannot, nor can those from there pass to us.’ “Then he said, ‘I beg you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father’s house, for I have five brothers - so that he might warn them, that they also might not come to this place of torment.' But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them.’ But he said, ‘No, father Abraham, if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent!’ But he said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not believe even if one rises from the dead...’ ” (Luke 16:19-Luke 16:31)
Tuesday, March 7, 2023
Monday, March 6, 2023
“Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness, where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works. Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known My ways. So I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall never enter My rest...’ ” (Hebrews 3:7-11)
Saturday, March 4, 2023
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and always... (Hebrews 13:8)
What shall I give you, Lord, in return for all your kindness?
Glory to you for your love.
Glory to you for your patience.
Glory to you for forgiving us our sins.
Glory to you for saving our souls.
Glory to you for your incarnation in the mother's womb.
Glory to you for your bonds.
Glory to you for receiving the cut on your flesh.
Glory to you for accepting mockery.
Glory to you for your crucifixion.
Glory to you for your burial.
Glory to you for your resurrection.
Glory to you that you were preached to all.
Glory to you in whom they believed.
Ephrem the Syrian (373 AD)
The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the ungodliness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse. For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. Therefore God gave them up to the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonouring of their bodies with one another, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error in due time. Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done... (Romans 1:18-28)
Storing wrath for the day of wrath... (Romans 2:5)
But woe to those who call darkness light and light as darkness... (Isaiah 5:20)
