Seeking Truth Meditations

Quote (Oct. 5/6, 2020): "Opportunities multiply as they are seized." (Sun Tzu) 1 Cor. 3:9-13 "For we are co-workers in God's service; you are God's field, God's building. By the grace God has given me...  ...It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each person's work."

Quote (Oct. 4, 2020): "Make your life a mission, not an intermission." (Arnold H. Glasour) Gal. 1:10 "Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ." 

Quote (Oct. 3, 2020): "Every Moment Matters." Eph. 5 v. 8-9 You were a time in darkness, but now are ye in light in the Lord: Walk as children of light: (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) v. 14-16 Awake; and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because t...

Quote (Oct. 2, 2020): "The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection." (Michelangelo) Job 12:7-16 -> "ask the beasts, and they will teach you; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell you: Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.  The hand of the Lord who shall know that in his hand is the soul of EVERY living thing,...

Quote (Oct. 1, 2020): "Make every step count."  Heb. 2:18 -> Christ tempted in all ways as we are. Heb. 5:2 -> He understands our weaknesses, but he overcame. Luke 22:39-46 -> Christ's prayer to overcome temptation. Warns Disciples. 

Quote (Sept. 30, 2020): "Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another." (Walter Elliot) Acts 16 -> Jailer and Lydia Baptisms. Luke 15:7 -> Rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents... Romans 6:16 -> We are slaves of whoever we obey. Whatever we follow after. We make the choice whether it be life or death. Purpose or vanity.

Quote (Sept. 28/29, 2020): "Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers." (Alfred Lord Tennyson) (*1 Peter 2*)

Quote (Sept. 27, 2020): "It is easy to be brave from a safe distance." (Aesop) (*Psa. 147*) "Praise the Lord... He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. He determines the number of the stars and calls them each by name..."

Quote (Sept. 26, 2020): "Although there is no progress without change, not all change is progress." (John Wooden) (*PSALM 73*) v. 1-14 The Psalmist's temptation of Envying the Wicked and Arrogant. v. 15-20 Seeing the Light and Truth. v. 21-28 How he Profited by it.

Quote (Sept. 25, 2020): "A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition." (William Aruther Ward) Psa. 51 -> v. 1 "Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgresions. v. 8 Let me hear joy and gladness, let the bones you have crushed rejoice. v. 10-12 Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a stedgast spirit within me." "D...

Quote (Sept. 24, 2020): "Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life." (Sophia Loren) "If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." (1 John 1:8-9)

Quote (Sept. 23, 2020): "Hello, Autumn."  Ecc. 3 -> v. 1,2 "To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die;" v. 11 "He has made everything beautiful in his time."

Quote (Sept. 21/22, 2020): "Every artist was first an amateur." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Luke 5 v. 8 -> "When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord." v. 10 -> "And so was also James, and John, the sons of Zebedee, which were partners with Simon. And Jesus said unto Simon, Fear not; from henceforth thou shalt catch men."

Quote (Sept. 20, 2020): "You don't have to be great to start. But you have to start to be great." (Zig Ziglar) "...Stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fuly to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labout is not in vain." (1 Cor. 15:58)

Quote (Sept. 19, 2020): "Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment." (Oprah Winfrey). "Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord... since you know you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward..." (Col. 3:23-24) "Do your best to present yourselves to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who c...

Quote (Sept. 18, 2020): "A wise man travels to discover himself." (James Russell Lowell) Joshua 1:9 -> "Be strong and courageous. Don't be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go." John 15:16 -> "You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed YOU so that you might go and bear fruit - fruit that will last - and so that whatever you ask in my...

Quote (Sept. 17, 2020): "Surviving is important. Thriving is Elegant." (Maya Angelou) Ezek. 16:7 -> He made his people thrive like plants of the field, growing up and maturing, becoming very beautiful... they started out as stark naked. Ezek. 17:9-10 -> Will it Thrive? Even in winds and trials? Ezek. 17:24 -> The Lord brings down the tall tree and makes the low tree grow tall. He is the L...

Quote (Sept. 16, 2020): "Go for the journey of a thousand miles."  "Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this: To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world." (James 1:27)

Quote (Sept. 14/15, 2020): "The Future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "..put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator." (Col. 3:10)

Quote (Sept. 13, 2020): "I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom." (Thomas Calyle) "The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace." (Romans 8:6, NIV)

Quote (Sept. 12, 2020): "Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open." (Thomas Dewar) "For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind." (2 Tim. 1:7)

Quote (Sept. 11, 2020): "Let the adventure begin" Psa. 30:4-5 -> "Sing unto the Lord, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness. For his anger endures but a moment; in his favour is life: Weeping may endure for a night, but JOY comes in the morning." 

Quote (Sept. 10, 2020): "I believe the greater the handicap, the greater the triumph." (John H. Johnson) James 1:2-4 -> Consider it pure JOY when faced with trials of many kinds. For the testing of our faith produces perseverance. With patience, perseverance will finish its work so that we may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. 

Quote (Sept. 9, 2020): "Make your dreams happen." Prov. 22:1-4 "A good name is more desirable than great riches; to be esteemed is better than silver or gold. Rich and poor have this in common: The Lord is the Maker of them all. The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty. Humility is the fear of the Lord; its wages are riches and honour and life."

Quote (Sept. 7/8, 2020): "The best way to FIND yourself is to LOSE yourself in the Service of Others." (Mahatma Gandhi) Heb. 10:1 -> The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming - not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship. Psa. 1:1-3 -> Blessed is the man th...