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Monday, April 8, 2024 |
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Today God says:
"Keep your heart with all diligence"
He promises me:
"Keep your heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life". (Prov. 4:23)
My response to the word:
It is my responsibility to keep my heart pure. Jesus said, "Blessed are the pure in heart; for they shall see God". I want to see God - in my life in the here-and-now and throughout eternity. Someone once said, "When God measures a man, He puts the tape around the heart instead of his head". Therefore, I will endeavour to keep my heart with all diligence throughout this day.
My prayer:
Father, thank you for your Word. Help me to keep my heart with all diligence throughout this day. I realize that the issues of my life stem from the attitudes of my heart.
Today's scriptures:
"Create a clean heart in me, O God, and renew a faithful spirit within me". (Ps. 51:10 GW) "My heart is confident. I want to sing and make music". (Ps. 57:7 GW) "Blessed our those whose thoughts are pure. They will see God". (Matt. 5:8 GW)
Quote for today:
A child of God should be a visible beatitude for joy and happiness, and a living doxology for gratitude and adoration. (Charles Spurgeon)
On this day:
"Scriptures are taken from the King James Bible or those marked (GW) are from the God's Word Translation, used with permission".
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On 8th April 1546, at its fourth session, the Council of Trent adopted Jerome's "Latin Vulgate" as the official Bible of the Roman Catholic Church. Included in the Vulgate O.T. were the 15 apocryphal books which Protestants reject in their biblical canon.
On 8th April 1901. after nearly 30 years of successful church planting in New Guinea, Presbyterian missionary James Chalmers (accompanied by missionary Oliver Tomkins, who had just arrived in the field) sets out to explore a new part of the islands. No one ever saw the two again.