31 Day Daily Devotional SERIES for the Garden of the Heart: DAY 16

 DAY 16

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.

When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said,  

It is finished: 

 and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.

Luke 23:43/John 19:30

 

Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; 

who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, 

and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

--For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

Hebrews 12:2,3

 

 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 we sin,
    who are the chosen favorites of heaven,
        we sin with an emphasis;
ours is a crying offence, because we are so peculiarly indulged.

If an angel should lay his hand upon us when we are doing evil,

he need not use any other rebuke than the question,

"What thou?  

What dost thou here?" 

Be honest with thine own soul, and make sure that thou art a new creature in Christ Jesus; but when this is sure, walk jealously, lest any should again be able to say, 

"Even thou wast as one of them." (Obadiah 1:11)."

Charles Spurgeon 

 

 Closing Thought for the Day

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, 

---who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; ---but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, 

that ye may be able to bear it.

1 Corinthians 10:13