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The Daily Devotional for the 21st Century!
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Today's subject: BIBLE MEDITATION
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October 19 |
Never obsolete, Ever up-to-date!
Reading: Philippians 4:7-9
"Your principles have been the music of my life
throughout the years of my pilgrimage" (Psa 119:54)
Spiritual warfare intensifies as this age comes to a close. "For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has a short time" (Rev 12:12). The "Sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God" is the only offensive weapon in the Christian's armour (Eph 6:17).
Making God's people doubt His Word has been the devil's constant attempt since time immemorial (Gen 3:1). With the increase of knowledge he uses science and technology to shake up the simple faith of folks in the Bible. The Bible is not a science book but all true science agrees with it. Man-made theories come and go but the Word of God abides forever (1 Pet 1:24,25).
Young and old everywhere complain of "tension," a word scarcely known earlier when life was simple. Tranquillity comes through the Word of God. The Word is "true...noble...just...pure...lovely...of good report...virtuous...praiseworthy." When we soak our minds in it, the "peace of God" and the "God of peace" are ours! (Phil 4:7-9).
Problems and worries multiply in alarming proportions in all spheres of life. Days are becoming gloomier and gloomier — even before the sun has turned into darkness and the moon into blood! (Acts 2:20). The Psalmist comes with a time-tested remedy for our malady: "Unless Your Law had been my delight, I would then have perished in my affliction...Your statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage" (Psa 119:92,54).
The floods come and the winds blow. Yet once more God is shaking the earth and the heaven that "the things which cannot be shaken may remain." Unless our life and work are founded on the solid rock of God's Word, great will be the fall (Mt 7:24-27; Heb 12:25-27).
The serpent is pouring forth a flood of false doctrines on the earth. The counterattack is by the "Word of God and Prayer" (1 Tim 4:1-5). The time has come when men do not endure sound doctrine but prefer fables to facts (2 Tim 4:1-4). We are to keep on practising and preaching the Word.
The solution to all our problems—spiritual, social or political—is in the Bible. The Bible never grows old. The Bible among books is what Christ is among men. The Bible is not only the Book of God but also the god of books!
Oh! may I love Thy precious Word, may I explore its mine!
May I its fragrant flowers glean, may light upon me shine!
(Edwin Hodder, 1837-1904)
Nov 25