“Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 5:3).
To be poor in spirit seems primarily to connote an attitude of dependence upon, and emptiness without, God. It is a palpable sense of one’s need of God’s grace and strength – the opposite of being proud and self-satisfied (like Laodicea […]
When [Lydia] was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us – Acts 16:15
Lydia is a wonderful, faithful example to every new believer. Many times, after a person becomes a Christian there is […]
Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body – Hebrews 13:3
What a selfless, sacrificial, thoughtful command to service! It is not enough, the writer of Hebrews clearly implies, to merely pity the poor or to pray for the persecuted. We must […]
When Jesus saw the multitudes, “he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd” (Matthew 9:36-38). To have compassion is to have pity, to suffer with and to show kindness. It is easy when we see someone who is in need or going down the […]
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“Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another” (Romans 14:19).
True, lasting, Christ-centered and Christ-exalting peace does not happen naturally. That is why the New Testament is constantly exhorting us to make peace and commending those who supernaturally develop the habit of being “peacemakers.”
In […]
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