Joel is NOT happy!
Posted on 11/21/2014 11:35:30 AM PST by xzins
Ya pushover! ;^)
I split my devotion time between Bible reading and inspirational reading. Bible in the morning, inspirational reading in the evening when my brain is tired.
Be sure to include prayer and meditation time as well.
Joel is NOT happy!
Not from me.
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There are more important things going on in the world that may affect us if there is a pandemic.
I’m in a Bible study. I used to read the workbook first, and then sometimes I wouldn’t get to the actual Scripture. I quit that. Now, I read the actual Word of God first. Then, as time permits, I go back to the supplementary materials. I think “somebody down there” doesn’t want us reading the Bible, and he can sidetrack good people sometimes, even by distracting them with sincerely helpful materials.
Praise God the Father through his Son Jesus I did the same and had the same feeling some time ago. The more I read the Bible the more I crave it, just can’t seem to get enough.
This tiresome schtick has grown old. It grabs us at first, but leaves he hollow with little substance.
Take a break from "upper room." Nobody said you have to read a devotional!
I think Jessica needs a short Spurgeon devotion page instead.
She makes some good points but it seems she saw doing the devotions as a chore.
Also why is it either or? Read the Bible each day and a good devotional too. The daily Spurgeon emails I get are wonderful. They make me dig deeper in my daily reading/study of scriptures.
But just using a devotional will not increase one’s literacy of the Bible.
>> I learned about a former Kamikaze pilot that went on to become a Christian missionary.<<
Wow. Good thing he was a poorly trained Kamikaze and failed his mission.
Don’t leave out Spurgeon. It’s more a daily sermon:)
Especially the widows. (Sorry, an old Clampers joke)
Yeah, the comment could have easily come from someone commenting on this thread by the sounds of it. People are harsh when they don’t need to be.
That too!
Just an Oriental ‘poorly catechized’ dude.
True. We tend to forget there are REAL people behind each and every comment.
Years of yelling at the tv and the news, where they CAN'T hear us, has formed this same response on the web; where they can!
face-to-face we would be a LOT nicer to each other.
This form of communicating leaves much to be desired.
I think she’s saying that a few verses and a cute story leave her dumbed down.
I imagine she would appreciate any in depth thought, reflection, idea, doctrine.
Personally, I like things that are a ‘quick shock’ to the thought process that leave me thinking about it more in depth. Sometimes that can be one of those traditional devotionals. I’ve had it happen with poety, with a song, with the retelling of a bible story, etc.
From a Spurgeon devotional (which comes from his sermons)
Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
Jacob, while expostulating with Laban, thus describes his own toil, "This twenty years have I been with thee. That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee: I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night. Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes." Even more toilsome than this was the life of our Saviour here below. He watched over all His sheep till He gave in as His last account, "Of all those whom Thou hast given me I have lost none." His hair was wet with dew, and His locks with the drops of the night. Sleep departed from His eyes, for all night He was in prayer wrestling for His people. One night Peter must be pleaded for; anon, another claims His tearful intercession. No shepherd sitting beneath the cold skies, looking up to the stars, could ever utter such complaints because of the hardness of his toil as Jesus Christ might have brought, if He had chosen to do so, because of the sternness of His service in order to procure His spouse-
"Cold mountains and the midnight air, Witnessed the fervour of His prayer; The desert His temptations knew, His conflict and His victory too."
It is sweet to dwell upon the spiritual parallel of Laban having required all the sheep at Jacob's hand. If they were torn of beasts, Jacob must make it good; if any of them died, he must stand as surety for the whole. Was not the toil of Jesus for His Church the toil of one who was under suretiship obligations to bring every believing one safe to the hand of Him who had committed them to His charge? Look upon toiling Jacob, and you see a representation of Him of whom we read, "He shall feed His flock like a shepherd."
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