31 Day Daily Devotional SERIES for the Garden of the Heart: DAY 11

DAY 11

And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, 

there they crucified him, and the malefactors, 

one on the right hand, and the other on the left.

   Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them;

for they know not what they do.

Luke 23:33,34

 

-For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; 

-that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. 

-For the wages of sin is death; 

-but the gift of God is eternal life 

through Jesus Christ our Lord.

2 Corinthians 5:21/Romans 6:23 

DAILY REMINDER

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, 

and have not LOVE, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, 

and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, 

and have not LOVE, I am nothing. 

And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not LOVE, it profiteth me nothing.

LOVE suffereth long, and is kind; 

LOVE envieth not; 

LOVE vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 

Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, 

is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; 

And now abideth faith, hope, LOVE, these three; 

but the greatest of these is LOVE.

 And from Jesus Christ, ....Unto him that loved us, 

and washed us from our sins in his own blood,...

1 Corinthians 13:1-5,13/Revelation 1:5

 

"When the Israelites were bitten by the fiery poisonous serpents whose sting was certain death, the brazen serpent was lifted up on a pole, and Jesus, enshrouded in the cloudy pillar, bade Moses tell them, "Look and live."
The same Jesus has bidden -- Look and live.  

Do not climb the pole, but only look. 

I present Christ to you. Look and live.

----You may say, "Oh, I am a great sinner." 

I admit it; Jesus is well acquainted with all this, and He says, "I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance" [Mark 2:17]. 

He has paid the ransom money for your soul... 

Q: Will you allow Satan to triumph? 

---He has unbalanced your mind, so that you are not able to reason calmly and sensibly."

 Letter 85, 1891-Written to J. A. Starr, Sept. 22, 1891 E.G.W.

 

  Closing Thought for the Day

Ye have heard of the patience of Job, 

and have seen the end of the Lord; 

that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.

And rend your heart, and not your garments, 

and turn unto the LORD your God: 

for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, 

and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.

James 5:11/Joel 2:13