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Post by elizabeth on Mar 12, 2014 19:10:29 GMT
1-20 SATISFYING PORTION "God is the strength of my heart, and my portion forever" (Psalm 73.26) Finally, when all else fails us, we find that God is enough. That which we most need in life; love, unfailing love; is abundantly and satisfyingly ours in the Lord Jesus. But we so often seek it elsewhere. "Nothing can be sweeter than the repose in divine love when it is known and the heart is free to rest in it. The soul may have a long journey to reach it experientially; there may be many needs and exercises to be met and removed on the way; self and the world will have to be learned; but the great end of all our exercises; and, I may add, of all our deliverances; is that we rest in the thoughts of divine love, and that love becomes in a very real way the portion of our hearts. If our hearts are not in the circle of divine love they have really got nothing, for as Christians we have no portion on earth. Thank God! it is a blessed and satisfying portion." -C.A.C. "There is no reserve in God's love; He has given the best in heaven for the worst on earth, and in this way has rebuked distrust and established confidence, so that 'the works of the devil' might be undone in our hearts. If we only want what God gives us we shall be perfectly happy. Nothing is of real value to us that we cannot take from our Father's hand and thank Him for." "And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God" (2 Thessalonians 3:5) Miles Stanford The Complete Green Letters click here
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Post by LS on Mar 12, 2014 19:17:37 GMT
I enjoyed this, Elizabeth, thank you. Here's a statement that caught my eye ... made me ponder:
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Post by elizabeth on Mar 12, 2014 20:30:27 GMT
That's interesting. I loved the whole devotional except for that one sentence, I didn't understand it, other than that we should be thankful for everything God gives us.
I thought this gives much to think about:
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Post by LS on Mar 12, 2014 23:23:16 GMT
That's interesting, Elizabeth, because I think those two statements are pretty much saying the same thing
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Post by shiloh on Mar 13, 2014 6:17:41 GMT
This goes so well with The Loneliness of the Christian excerpt by A.W. Tozer. I have that taped inside of the cover of my Bible.
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