I pray God will encourage others to continue the tradition by posting devotions or meditations, Scriptures or prayers, Bible studies or hymns.
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Why not start over then?
"This ends my year’s posting of the Chambers devotion"
You have blessed many, including me, with your faithful service.
H U G S ! !
"Do You See Your Calling?"
"" . . . separated to the gospel of God. . . ""
"—Romans 1:1"
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Aptly titled devotional for today.
Alamo Girl, your diligence and devotion to the Oswald Chamber's daily thread is truly a gift of love. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
It is amazing how at the end of the year we start over on the devotions; and each time we are in a different state of understanding and connection and being.
It is the unending wonder of God's word that makes it so. It is supernatural.
I read once that Andrew Carnegie, and Edgar Cassey read through the Bible every year of their life. A worthy goal.
One which requires discipline, dedication, devotion, diligence and determined perseverance.
May God strengthen those attributes in us. We serve a risen Savior that says "go and tell thy brethren." Love is the way, showing love, serving in love, being love. Let the mind be in us that is in Christ Jesus, our Lord. Amen.
Alamo-Girl, I went looking for some Christian writing that spoke of devotion and dedication, as you have shown in posting these devotions, day after day. I found nothing exact, but I did find the following by Charles Spurgeon, which I really liked though I'm not sure it's relevant to today's devotional. Still, your devotion was a well chosen path, and speaks to keeping your gaze on God, and I offer this too you bearing all that in mind.
Running is not everything, there is much in the way which we select: a swift foot over hill and down dale will not keep pace with a slower traveller upon level ground. How is it with my spiritual journey, am I labouring up the hill of my own works and down into the ravines of my own humiliations and resolutions, or do I run by the plain way of "Believe and live"? How blessed is it to wait upon the Lord by faith! The soul runs without weariness, and walks without fainting, in the way of believing. Christ Jesus is the way of life, and He is a plain way, a pleasant way, a way suitable for the tottering feet and feeble knees of trembling sinners: am I found in this way, or am I hunting after another track such as priestcraft or metaphysics may promise me? I read of the way of holiness, that the wayfaring man, though a fool, shall not err therein: have I been delivered from proud reason and been brought as a little child to rest in Jesus' love and blood? If so, by God's grace I shall outrun the strongest runner who chooses any other path. This truth I may remember to my profit in my daily cares and needs. It will be my wisest course to go at once to my God, and not to wander in a roundabout manner to this friend and that. He knows my wants and can relieve them, to whom should I repair but to Himself by the direct appeal of prayer, and the plain argument of the promise. "Straightforward makes the best runner." I will not parlay with the servants, but hasten to their master."Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain, and overran Cushi."-2 Samuel 18:23
I thank you. All His finest blessings in peace and righteousness be thine forever through our Savior Jesus Christ. Amen.