Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.
Thus the Lord has done for me in the days when he looked on me, to take away my reproach among people.
He is our God; we are the people he cares for, the flock for which he provides.
“This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel after that time, declares […]
Question 1: do you want to live forever? If “no”, then you can skip this quiet […]
To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their minds and their consciences are defiled.
For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.
I concluded yesterday's quiet time by saying that we can die with Christ and effectively lose the bonds of the law that hold us slaves to death and sin.
Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.
So, I have this recurring nightmare-- it's that when I die, I go to the place of judgment and I fail to fully account for what I did while I was alive and I am thrown to the place where people gnash their teeth.