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Recognize and acknowledge the Source of all good!

The recipient didn’t recognize the source of her blessings:

She did not know that I gave her corn.

image of a flower and a verse
from Psalm 30:7

Not knowing — seemingly out of willful ignorance — the recipient didn’t acknowledge. Or give thanks. Or humbly recognize the source. So…

Therefore will I return, and take away my corn.

Lessons for me this morning:

  1. Remember the source from Whom all blessings flow.
  2. Give Him thanks.
  3. Accept His unending ownership of all and everything.
  4. Be a faithful steward of what He has given me.
  5. Presume on it and He will take it back.

Are those accurate, legitimate lessons? What do you say? And what do you have to add?

Oh, and here’s the full reading I engaged last night: Continue reading →

Don't -- live as a child of Light!

Christian, you don’t have to show darkness to win those in it.

If we walk in the Light, where does our darkness come from?

You used to be (in) darkness, but now you are (in) light — the Lord’s light — so live as one who is a child of Light.

You are, aren’t you?

The entrance of thy words giveth light. -Psalm 119:130

This . . . is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. -1 John 1:5

God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. -2 Corinthians 4:6

The Word was God. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. -John 1:1,4

If we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. -1 John 1:7

Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. -Psalm 119:11

Ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. -John 15:3

Ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light. -Ephesians 5:8

Ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light. -1 Peter 2:9

Daily Light on the Daily Path

I don’t do very well at this. 🙁