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At your request, Todays devotion
Topic Started: Dec 7 2004, 01:36 AM (63 Views)
OzarkPreacher
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Sir Lancelot
I had stopped posting the devotion due to lack of interest. However some of you have requated it so as long as there is a little interest I will continue.

“Base things of the world hath God chosen.”
— 1 Corinthians 1:28

Walk the streets by moonlight, if you dare, and you will see sinners then. Watch when the night is dark, and the wind is howling, and the picklock is grating in the door, and you will see sinners then. Go to yon jail, and walk through the wards, and mark the men with heavy over-hanging brows, men whom you would not like to meet at night, and there are sinners there. Go to the Reformatories, and note those who have betrayed a rampant juvenile depravity, and you will see sinners there. Go across the seas to the place where a man will gnaw a bone upon which is reeking human flesh, and there is a sinner there. Go where you will, you need not ransack earth to find sinners, for they are common enough; you may find them in every lane and street of every city, and town, and village, and hamlet. It is for such that Jesus died. If you will select me the grossest specimen of humanity, if he be but born of woman, I will have hope of him yet, because Jesus Christ is come to seek and to save sinners. Electing love has selected some of the worst to be made the best. Pebbles of the brook grace turns into jewels for the crown-royal. Worthless dross he transforms into pure gold. Redeeming love has set apart many of the worst of mankind to be the reward of the Saviour’s passion. Effectual grace calls forth many of the vilest of the vile to sit at the table of mercy, and therefore let none despair.

Reader, by that love looking out of Jesus’ tearful eyes, by that love streaming from those bleeding wounds, by that faithful love, that strong love, that pure, disinterested, and abiding love; by the heart and by the bowels of the Saviour’s compassion, we conjure you turn not away as though it were nothing to you; but believe on him and you shall be saved. Trust your soul with him and he will bring you to his Father’s right hand in glory everlasting.
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Hotrod
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Thanks OP! :thumb
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JackA
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Powerful! Absolutely powerful!

It can and does at times bring a tear to my eye, welling me up with emotion, thinking that Jesus paid such a horrendous paid for a sinner such as me.

Thanks OP.
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Stacy
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Op a lack of response is not a sign of a lack of iinterest. I read these, and absorb them and learn from them, but often there is nothing to say. To speak is almost to bellittle the wonderful point you are teaching us. Sometimes I am speechless because it is speaking straight to me.

Please keep them coming.
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Psycmeistr
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Thank you so much, Rev. Dave--these devotions are truly inspiring and appreciated!

One thing (among others) that I am very proud of in the Catholic tradition, is that they have not lost sight of the importance of the Passion of the Christ. One devotion that I particularly fond of is the Stations of the Cross.
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Stacy
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What are the stations of the cross?
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Silent Angel
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:thanx I've missed reading these!
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Stacy
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See Op, lack of response is not a sign of lack of interest!
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Jack of 32
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Stacy
Dec 7 2004, 11:10 AM
Op a lack of response is not a sign of a lack of iinterest. I read these, and absorb them and learn from them, but often there is nothing to say. To speak is almost to bellittle the wonderful point you are teaching us. Sometimes I am speechless because it is speaking straight to me.

Please keep them coming.

So very well put Stacy. I agree and love reading them also everyday OP. Please continue...... :thanx
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Fr. Mike
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Rev. Dave,

I was just about to PM you about your "sliding" on this tradition here at the Breach.

By the way, that was a heartfelt passage and I needed it today. I need only look in the mirror each morning to find one of those sinners.

Merry Christmas--brother

Fr. Mike :thanx

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OzarkPreacher
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Thank you all for your kind words and I wish I were the one inspired to write these daily devotions. My own words fail in type form. I wish I could convey my thoughts so well in the written word as Spurgeon does.

I have no problem speaking my thoughts clearly in front of 1 or 1000 but somehow they lose something from my brain to my fingertips. My wife syas it is because people can see a person when they are speaking and can see the passion and the tears and hear the heartfelt emotion in the tone. But to convey those feelings into type form is an art I have not yet mastered. Perhaps one day....

In His grip, OP
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