Verse of the Day

Author: David Short

  • April 17, 2020

    HATE EVIL


    Psalms 96:10 (97:10)

    You who love the Lord, hate evil;
    The Lord keeps the souls of His saints;
    He shall deliver them from the hand of sinners.


    Personal Challenge

    Jesus charged us with two commandments. They are to love God and love our neighbor. Everything that we do is supposed to be couched in these two commandments and every other rule or guidance that we are given needs to be based on this love. So when we see the statement, “hate evil”, it does not mean that we hate the person who is doing evil. We hate evil, but we are to love the person. This can definitely be a challenge. Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, the sinner!

  • April 16, 2020

    ENCOURAGEMENTS


    Psalms 93:19 (94:19)

    O Lord, according to the abundance of grief in my heart,
    Your encouragements consoled my soul.

    Encouraging Words

    One of the beautiful things about our God is that He is not all about rules and regulations. He is about relationships. He loves us. That is the bottom line and the whole story. He loves us. In that love, He is there to console our soul through His encouragements. Glory be to God!

  • April 15, 2020

    NO WRONGDOING IN GOD


    Psalms 91:16 (92:15)

    So as to proclaim, “The Lord my God is upright,
    And there is no wrongdoing in Him.”

    Encouraging Words

    We believe in, and worship, a God who has always been righteous and upright. He has always been pure and without blemish. He is the One who created us in His image and it was us that spoiled that image. And yet, He still loves us and is constantly wiping the mud of sin off of His precious children, His diamonds in the rough. Glory be to God!

  • April 14, 2020

    GOD WILL…


    Psalms 90:14-16 (91:14-16)

    “For he hoped in Me, and I will deliver him;
    I will shelter him, because he knew My name.
    He shall call upon Me, and I will hear him;
    I am with him in affliction,
    And I will deliver and glorify him.

    With length of days I will satisfy him,
    And show him My salvation.”

    Encouraging Words

    What a blessing, what rewards, we receive for putting our hope in God. He promises to deliver us, to shelter us, to hear us, to be with us in our affliction, to deliver and glorify us, to give us length of days, and to be our salvation, when we put our hope in Him. Glory be to God!

  • April 13, 2020

    OVERSHADOWED


    Psalms 90:4 (91:4)

    He shall overshadow you with His shoulders,
    And under His wings you shall hope;
    His truth shall encircle you with a shield.

    Encouraging Words

    I am so thankful that I was blessed with the opportunity to grow up in a rural community, with farm animals, gardens, and orchards to tend. These life experiences have made it so much easier to understand so much of the imagery in the scriptures. When you see a mother cow overshadowing her young calf and protecting that precious offspring with all of her being you see the love of God in this portion of the verse toward His children, us. When you see a mother hen collect her chicks under her wings to guard and protect them, you see God’s desire to protect us and care for us. God is the one who loves and protects us with His shield. Glory be to God!

  • April 12, 2020

    GOD’S HELP


    Psalms 90:1 (91:1)

    He who dwells in the help of the Most High
    Shall lodge in the shelter of the God of heaven.

    Personal Challenge

    Once again, we are reminded that we are to put our trust, our hope, in our Lord, the Most High. It is so easy to abandon this and put our hope in ourselves, or the government, or anyone or thing else other than God. Putting our trust and hope in God alone is what it means to dwell in the help of the Most High. When we truly do this, our lodging will be His shelter, which nothing can prevail against. Lord, have mercy! Lord, have mercy! Lord, have mercy!

  • April 11, 2020

    Saint of the Week

    St. Anthony the Great

  • April 10, 2020

    REMEMBER ME, O LORD


    Psalms 88:48-49 (89:47-48)

    Let my substance be remembered, as to what sort it is,
    For did You create all the sons of men in vain?
    What kind of man is there who will live and not see death?
    Will he deliver his soul from the hand of Hades?

    Personal Challenge

    The Psalmist knows that there is no one who can escape death except God alone. He knows that because of our sinfulness we are destined for Hades. That is why he pleads to God to remember him, to remember that he was created by God and that God does not create anything in vain. That is why he, and we like him, can call out to our Lord to remember us, o Lord when we die. We also plea that God remembers the work His Son did to deliver our souls from the hand of Hades. Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, the sinner and remember me!

  • April 9, 2020

    BUT YOU, O LORD…


    Psalms 85:15 (86:15)

    But You, O Lord, are compassionate and merciful,
    Longsuffering and very merciful and truthful.

    Encouraging Words

    I feel sorrow and compassion for many of my western Christian friends who have embraced the doctrine that our Lord is an angry and judgmental God. The teaching goes so far as to say that He had to kill His only Son in order to pay off His anger toward us. I am so appreciative that in our eastern Christian teaching we see our Lord as loving, compassionate, and merciful. We are taught that Jesus became incarnate and died for us so that He could put eternal death, or separation from God to death. He broke the bonds of death that were the result of Adam and Eve’s sin so that we could all have life, abundant and eternal life. Glory be to God!

  • April 7, 2020

    GIVE THANKS


    Psalms 85:12 (84:12)

    I will give thanks to You, O Lord my God, with my whole heart,
    And I shall glorify Your name forever;

    Personal Challenge

    What do we have to give thanks to God for? Everything! We have nothing in our lives that does not originate from Him. Even the very breath that we take and the beat that our heart produces comes from Him. I shall glorify His name forever!