Grow in the Word of the Lord

THE THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Concentrate on how you can please the Lord today.  Your accomplishments are only the result of God’s glory within you

“Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.  ² Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.”

Proverbs 27:1-2 (KJV)

Song of Solomon 8

To the Daughters of Jerusalem (the Christians unsaved friends)

Showing the tender embracing and the love our Savior has for us

Song of Solomon 8:3 (KJV), “His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.”

Micah 2

God’s warning to Israel, and us if applicable, of eminent danger of evil planning

Micah 2:1-2 (KJV), “Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.  ² And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.”

Woe means “grief, anguish, affliction, wretchedness, calamity, or trouble.” The Dictionary of Bible Themes categorizes the uses of the word woe in the Bible: “Woe as an exclamation of judgment on others.”

Do not allow idle chit chat convince you that your wrong doing will not be repatriated (go unpunished)

Micah 2:11 (KJV), “If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.”

2 Corinthians 1

Depend on God to comfort you in any and all situations where you may encounter tribulations

2 Corinthians 1:3-5 (KJV), “³ Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; ⁴ Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.  ⁵ For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.”

2 Corinthians 1:20 (KJV), “For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.”

Proverbs 27

Concentrate on how you can please the Lord today.  Your accomplishments are only the result of God’s glory within you

Proverbs 27:1-2 (KJV), “Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.  ² Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.”

The jealousy described here is that of immense envy that can destroy a marriage

Proverbs 27:4 (KJV), “Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?”

Envy

Strong’s Concordance (7068) – qinah: ardor, zeal, jealousy.  Brown-Driver-Briggs – 1.  Ardour (ador) of jealousy of husband. 

1828 Webster’s Dictionary – 1. That passion of peculiar uneasiness which arises from the fear that a rival may rob us of the affection of one whom we love, or the suspicion that he has already done it; or it is the uneasiness which arises from the fear that another does or will enjoy some advantage which we desire for ourselves. 

Ador (TWD)

2. Warmth, or heat, applied to the passions and affections; eagerness.

Romans 3

We are all sinners

Romans 3:4 (KJV), “God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.”

Psalm 51:1-4 (KJV), “Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.  ² Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.  ³ For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.  ⁴ Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.”

God created the law so no one can ever be justified and all would be found guilty

Romans 3:19-20 (KJV), “¹⁹ Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.  ²⁰ Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.”

The law or without the law and with the righteousness of faith through Jesus Christ, we all fall short and have sinned

Romans 3:21-23 (KJV), “²¹ But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; ²² Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: ²³ For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.”

Justified by faith, through the law, or justified through faith, through Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ then established the law not voided the law

Romans 3:28-31 (KJV), “²⁸ Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.  ²⁹ Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also: ³⁰ Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.  ³¹ Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.”