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

 DAY 31

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 2 Timothy 3:16

Q: What is the BIBLE?

A:  It is a book that begins & ends the same---

In the 1st story- God leans over and breathes the breath of life into Adam
In the last story- God leans over and wipes away all tears from their eyes
--It begins & ends with God leaning over & touching us----& the pages in between He is trying to tell us what He thinks of us.....that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. James 5:11

 

*A WARNING Given*

....even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; 

 in which are some things hard to be understood, 

which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, 

as they do also the other scriptures,

 unto their own destruction.

But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies,....For certain individuals whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into a license for immorality....

2 Peter 3:15,16/2:1/Jude 1:4 NIV

 

 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

 

 

"It is a law both of the intellectual and the spiritual nature that by

beholding we become changed. The mind gradually adapts itself to the subjects upon which it is allowed to dwell. It becomes assimilated to that which it is accustomed to love and reverence.

But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. 2 Corinthians 3:18." 

 The Great Controversy p.555 E.G.W.

 

  Closing Thought for the Day

Beloved,

      I wish above all things

       * that thou mayest prosper (personal well being)

       * and be in health, (physical well being)

       * even as thy soul prospereth. (spiritual well being)

I have no greater joy 

than to hear that my children walk in truth.

 

But I trust I shall shortly see thee,

and we shall speak face to face.

 

Let the wicked forsake his way, 

and the unrighteous man his thoughts: 

  and let him return unto the Lord, 

     and He will have mercy upon him; 

        and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.

3 John 1:2,4,14/Isaiah 55:7