more from Hope For Each Day

okay so i love Hope For Each Day ALOT!! so you are going to be getting alot of the days that i read and want to share with you all. this books makes me think and see how the day that i am reading pertains to me. i see it and ask the Lord to change that in my life and help me work to keep that an ongoing part of my life. hopefully you see something in one of these days that pertains to you and you also change it. but remember you need the Lord's help to change it. remember from Ichthus; you are totally depraved! you can do nothing without Christ.

June 27
Trust and Obey
Blessed is the man who makes the Lord his trust
Psalm 40:4

Some years ago someone gave my little boy a dollar. He brought it to me and said, "Daddy, keep this for me." But in a few minutes he came back and said, "Daddy, I'd better keep my own dollar." He tucked it in his pocket and went out to play. In a few minutes he came back tears in his eyes, saying, "Daddy, I lost my dollar. Help me find it."
How often we commit our burdens to the Lord and then fail to trust Him by taking matters into our own hands. Then, when we have messed things up, we pray, "Oh, Lord, help me, I'm in trouble."
The choice is yours. Do you want to trust your life in God's "pocket" or keep it in your own? The Bible's promise is true: "Blessed is the man who makes the Lord his trust."


June 29
Peace, Perfect Peace
I will give you assured peace in this place.
Jeremiah 14:13

"Worry," says Vance Harvner, "is like sitting in a rocking chair. It will give you something to do, but it won't take you anywhere." Worry and anxiety have hounded the human race since the beginning of time, and modern man with all his innovations has not found the cure for the plague of worry.
What is the answer? Imagine in your mind a ferocious ocean storm beating against a rocky shore. The lightning flashes, the thunder roars, the waves lash the rocks. But then imagine that you see a crevice in the rocky cliff-and inside is a little bird, its head serenely tucked under its wing, fast asleep. It knows the rock will protect it, and thus it sleeps in peace.
God promised Moses, "I will put you in the cleft of the rock, and will cover you with My hand" (Exodus 33:22). That is God's promise to us. Christ is our Rock, and we are secure in His hands forever. The storm rages, but our hearts are at rest.


July 2
The Call of Christ
The wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.
1 Corinthians 3:19

Some may contend that the way for the Church to make the world a better place is to become like it. But whenever the Church does this, it ends up compromising its spiritual authority and losing its influence. Instead of changing the world, the world changes it.
God doesn't want us to isolate ourselves. In praying for His disciples Jesus said,"As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world" (John 17:18). If we isolate ourselves from others, we have no impact and demonstrate a lack of love.
But neither does God want us to become like the unbelieving world. We are to be separate, refusing to adopt its motives, attitudes, and patterns of behavior. The Bible warns, "All this is in the world-the lust of flessh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life-is not of the Father but of the world" (1 John 2:16). Let Christ fill your life, and there won't be room for the world.