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The Lord will provide!
(J.R. Miller)
"You have not passed this way before!" Joshua 3:4
"Abraham named the place Jehovah-Jireh (which means 'the LORD will provide')" Genesis 22:14
As you begin meditating on this verse, write deep in your heart this word with the strongest confidence: Jehovah-Jireh. This name tells you . . .
that you can trust God always;
that no promise of His ever fails;
that He does all things well;
that out of all seeming loss and destruction of human hopes, He brings blessing.
You have not passed this way before. There will be both sorrows and joys, both failures and successes. You cannot predict your future experiences. You cannot see the next step before your feet. Yet Jehovah-Jireh calls you to trust Him calmly. He bids you put away all anxieties and foreboding, because the Lord will provide!
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Character
(J.R. Miller)
Reputation is what a man's neighbors and friends think of him.
Character is what the man IS.
Character is personal. It is not a possession we can share with someone else. We can give a hungry person part of our loaf of bread; we can divide our money with one who needs it; but character is something we cannot give away or transmit. The brave soldier cannot share his courage with the trembling recruit who fights by his side in the battle. The pure, gentle woman cannot give part of her purity and gentleness, to the defiled and hardened woman she meets.
Character is our own--a part of our very being. It grows in us over the years. Acts repeated become habits, and character is made up in the long run, of those habits which have been repeated so often, that they become a permanent part of our lives.
Sow a thought--and you will reap an act;
sow an act--and you will reap a habit;
sow a habit--and you will reap a character;
sow character--and you will reap a destiny!
As the tree falls--so must it lie;
As the man lives--so must he die!
As a man dies--such must he be;
All through the ages of eternity!
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Two men look at the same scene:
(J.R. Miller)
"Be joyful always!" 1 Thessalonians 5:16
"In all our affliction, I am overflowing with joy!" 2 Corinthians 7:4
Thankfulness or unthankfulness is largely a matter of the attitude of our heart.
Two men look at the same scene:
one sees the defects and the imperfections;
the other sees the beauty and the brightness.
If you cannot find things to be thankful for today, and every day--the fault is in yourself, and you ought to pray for a changed heart--a heart to see God's goodness and to praise Him.
A joyful heart transfigures all the world around us! It finds something to be thankful for in the barest circumstances, even in the dark night of the soul. Let us train ourselves to see the beauty and the goodness in God's world, and in our own circumstances--and then we shall stop grumbling, and be content and thankful in all situations.
"A happy heart makes the face cheerful!" Proverbs 15:13
"The cheerful heart has a continual feast!" Proverbs 15:15
"A cheerful heart is good medicine--but a crushed spirit dries up the bones." Proverbs 17:22
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