Day 187

Day 187

Biblical Principle - Absolute truth from God’s Word:

Truth:

The law of the LORD is perfect; nothing else is needed to point one to their need of salvation.

The testimony of the LORD is sure; no other word is needed to trust in Lord to give one wisdom.

The statutes (principles) of the Lord are right;  nothing extra is needed and the absolute truths of Biblical principles should be followed and will always bring joy.

The commandments of the Lord are pure; will always bring clear understanding of truth.

The fear of the Lord is clean; a permanent making whole those who fear Him giving eternal life.

The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous: we can always trust the Lord’s way.

We are then given the truth that these things are greater than anything the world can offer and a warning that great reward comes to those who do; implying the opposite to be true if we do not follow them.

Psalms 19:7-11 The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.

 The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.

 The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.

 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

 Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.

Practical - Works that apply Biblical Principle:

This section is for you to find a way to apply the truth in your life. I will try to give only one as example; there may be other practical ways. This is what makes the Christian walk so important and makes it important to have a deliberate purpose in everything we do.

Where is your reward?  If in heaven than we are following Psalms 19.  If in this world we are not following Psalm 19.

Matthew 6:19-21 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:

 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:

 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Day 186

Day 186

Biblical Principle - Absolute truth from God’s Word

The visible creation is so vast that all will see the glory of God. The vastness of creation leads us to the excitement of a marriage ceremony with all its anticipation of a future.  Also creation gives us strength to run that race of life.   If God can make all these things how much more can He provide for us.

Psalms 19:1-5 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.

 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.

 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.

 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,

 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.

Practical - Works that apply Biblical Principle:

This section is for you to find a way to apply the truth in your life. I will try to give only one as example; there may be other practical ways. This is what makes the Christian walk so important and makes it important to have a deliberate purpose in everything we do.

Though creation can be seen; it is the faith and trust in the God of creation that truly makes the difference.  When we reject the truth of creation we become fools.

Romans 1:20-22 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Day 185

Day 185

Biblical Principle - Absolute truth from God’s Word:

How do you describe the Lord?  All are just a small picture but the direction is always up and farther than we will ever be able to understand completely.  Rock, fortress, deliverer, strength, buckler, horn of salvation, high tower are the basics that lead us to call on the Lord.

Psalms 18:1-3 I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.         

  The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

   I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.

Practical - Works that apply Biblical Principle:

This section is for you to find a way to apply the truth in your life. I will try to give only one as example; there may be other practical ways. This is what makes the Christian walk so important and makes it important to have a deliberate purpose in everything we do.

No matter who we are we all must come to the Lord the same way.  All must call upon Him by faith.  What brings us to calling is the Word of God, which tells us who He is.

Rom 10:12-17 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.

 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?

 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!

 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?

 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Day 184

Day 184

Biblical Principle - Absolute truth from God’s Word:

The fool is one who does not see there is a God.  The reason they do not see is that they have no understanding in their own mind of God.  Human reasoning will not come to God as the conclusion.  The rejection of the truth of  righteousness always takes us away from God.  The truth comes from the counsel of the “poor”; those who realize they have nothing apart from God.  To know there is a God one must realize they is One who is greater then them.

Psalms 14:1-7 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

 The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.

 They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.

 There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.

 Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.

 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

Practical - Works that apply Biblical Principle:

This section is for you to find a way to apply the truth in your life. I will try to give only one as example; there may be other practical ways. This is what makes the Christian walk so important and makes it important to have a deliberate purpose in everything we do.

To be poor is to realize you have absolutely nothing.  Salvation comes to those who put their complete trust in the Lord.  To be poor is not someone who has less than someone else but someone who has nothing. 

Matthew 5:3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Day 183

Day 183

Biblical Principle - Absolute truth from God’s Word:

The Lord is holy and righteous in all He does.  The Lord is our foundation strong and sure.  The Lord sees all visible and invisible of all people.  The Lord hates the wicked and brings judgment to all.  The Lord loves the righteous and the look on His face shows it.

Psalms 11:1-7 In the LORD put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?

 For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.

 If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?

 The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD's throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.

 The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.

 Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.

 For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright.

Practical - Works that apply Biblical Principle:

This section is for you to find a way to apply the truth in your life. I will try to give only one as example; there may be other practical ways. This is what makes the Christian walk so important and makes it important to have a deliberate purpose in everything we do.

The spiritual warfare is evident in the lives of the believers.  The Lord hates the wicked so it should not be a surprise that the wicked hate the Lord and His people. But always remember that the Lord loves His own and commands us to love one another.  It may be that we are to love one another to encourage each other while we are being hated by the wicked. 

1John 3:10-13 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.

 For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

 Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

 Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.

Day 182

Day182:

Biblical Principle - Absolute truth from God’s Word:

What great truth in who God is.  When we view all of creation; all of space, all of time and all of the visible tangible things, we can not imagine how big God really is.  Just imagine how great God is that he would even consider us by coming to us. God is so good.

Psalms 8:1-9 O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.

 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.

 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:

 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;

 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

Practical - Works that apply Biblical Principle:

This section is for you to find a way to apply the truth in your life. I will try to give only one as example; there may be other practical ways. This is what makes the Christian walk so important and makes it important to have a deliberate purpose in everything we do.

The answer to why God came to us is that He would “taste death” for every man.  He came to save us from sin and to live with Him forever.

Hebrews 2:6-9 But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man that thou visitest him?

 Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands:

 Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him.

 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.

Day 181

Day 181

Biblical Principle - Absolute truth from God’s Word:

God is both the defense attorney and judge of the righteous.  God is the judge and executioner of the wicked. 

Psalms 7:10-11 My defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart.

 God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.

Practical - Works that apply Biblical Principle:

This section is for you to find a way to apply the truth in your life. I will try to give only one as example; there may be other practical ways. This is what makes the Christian walk so important and makes it important to have a deliberate purpose in everything we do.

Since God will be judge and executioner of the wicked, those who are righteous should put away those who are wicked.  This may seem like judging on our part and taking away from God’s judgment.   However, we are to make judgments so that we can protect ourselves from falling to the wicked and to protect others as well. 

1Corinthians 5:11-13 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?

 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

Day 180

Day 180

Biblical Principle - Absolute truth from God’s Word:

When we face the troubles of the day, we begin with seeing the forces of evil all around us and a feeling of hopelessness.  But when we see the Lord and call on Him we then see the victory. 

Psalms 3:1-4 Lord, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.

 Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah.

 But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.

 I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.

Practical - Works that apply Biblical Principle:

This section is for you to find a way to apply the truth in your life. I will try to give only one as example; there may be other practical ways. This is what makes the Christian walk so important and makes it important to have a deliberate purpose in everything we do.

When we realize the God is greater than the world we then can know the difference between truth and lies.

1John 4:4-6 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

 They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.

 We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

Day 179

Day 179
Biblical Principle - Absolute truth from God’s Word:
The people of the world believe they know the truth because they can imagine it in their minds.  They set up rules and ways of living that oppose the Lord to convince others to follow their ways.  Those who hold to the truth are not to fall into the trap of those people and their thinking.  All of the worlds thinking and philosophy are laughable to God as they are so small as God is go Great.

Psalms 2:1-5 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,

 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the LORD shall have them in derision.

 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.

Practical - Works that apply Biblical Principle:

This section is for you to find a way to apply the truth in your life. I will try to give only one as example; there may be other practical ways. This is what makes the Christian walk so important and makes it important to have a deliberate purpose in everything we do.

When we try to pick between people we are going to follow it always end in trouble.  The practical to the principle is to always follow Christ and He will always bring us the leaders we need to follow.

We need to be rooted into Christ and established in the faith in order to avoid being spoiled with worldly thinking and philosophy.   

Colosians 2:6-8 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:

 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.

 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

Day 178

Day 178

Biblical Principle - Absolute truth from God’s Word:

Blessed by not following the ungodly counsel, the way of sinners, or become scornful.  Blessed to stand by truth of God’s law, which leads us to he LORD.  Strength and stability for life’s difficulties are granted by standing in the truth.

Psalms 1:1-6 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

 For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

Practical - Works that apply Biblical Principle:

This section is for you to find a way to apply the truth in your life. I will try to give only one as example; there may be other practical ways. This is what makes the Christian walk so important and makes it important to have a deliberate purpose in everything we do.

When we do not follow the counsel of the ungodly, follow the sinners and become like them we are then subject to persecution.  But we can rejoice and be glad for the reward that comes.

Matthew 5:10-12 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.