BibleForums Christian Message Board - Devotions http://bibleforums.org/ Read the word before you read the forums. en Sat, 25 May 2013 11:23:10 GMT vBulletin 60 http://bibleforums.org/images/misc/rss.png BibleForums Christian Message Board - Devotions http://bibleforums.org/ Morning Meditation Psalm 107:7 http://bibleforums.org/showthread.php/247453-Morning-Meditation-Psalm-107-7?goto=newpost Wed, 22 May 2013 22:27:32 GMT

"He led them forth by the right way."—Psalm 107:7.


HANGEFUL experience often leads the anxious believer to enquire "Why is it thus with me?"

I looked for light, but lo, darkness came; for peace, but behold trouble.

I said in my heart, my mountain standeth firm, I shall never be moved.

Lord, thou dost hide Thy face, and I am troubled.

It was but yesterday that I could read my title clear; to-day my evidences are bedimmed, and my hopes are clouded.

Yesterday I could climb to Pisgah's top, and view the landscape o'er, and rejoice with confidence in my future inheritance;

To-day, my spirit has no hopes, but many fears; no joys, but much distress.

Is this part of God's plan with me? Can this be the way in which God would bring me to heaven? Yes, it is even so.
The eclipse of your faith, the darkness of your mind, the fainting of your hope, all these things are but parts of God's method of making you ripe for the great inheritance upon which you shall soon enter.

These trials are for the testing and strengthening of your faith—they are waves that wash you further upon the rock—they are winds which waft your ship the more swiftly towards the desired haven.
According to David's words, so it might be said of you, "so He bringeth them to their desired haven."

By honour and dishonour, by evil report and by good report, by plenty and by poverty, by joy and by distress, by persecution and by peace, by all these things is the life of your souls maintained, and by each of these are you helped on your way.

Oh, think not, believer, that your sorrows are out of God's plan; they are necessary parts of it.

"We must, through much tribulation, enter the kingdom."
Learn, then, even to "count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations."

"O let my trembling soul be still,
And wait Thy wise, Thy holy will!
I cannot, Lord, Thy purpose see,
Yet all is well since ruled by Thee."

Charles Spurgeon ]]> Devotions Scooby_Snacks http://bibleforums.org/showthread.php/247453-Morning-Meditation-Psalm-107-7 Gen 4:15 http://bibleforums.org/showthread.php/247274-Gen-4-15?goto=newpost Mon, 13 May 2013 22:11:59 GMT Today's New International Version (2005)

Genesis 4:15

4:15 But the LORD said to him, "Not so ; anyone who kills Cain will suffer vengeance seven times over." Then the LORD put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him.


My thoughts
The Lord shows mercy even though no one deserves it.
]]> Devotions clarkthompson http://bibleforums.org/showthread.php/247274-Gen-4-15 Gen 4:13-14 http://bibleforums.org/showthread.php/247155-Gen-4-13-14?goto=newpost Mon, 06 May 2013 21:42:51 GMT Today's New International Version (2005)

Genesis 4:13-14

4:13 Cain said to the LORD, "My punishment is more than I can bear.
4:14 Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me."

My thoughts
God's punishment is always just. ]]> Devotions clarkthompson http://bibleforums.org/showthread.php/247155-Gen-4-13-14