Greetings-This page will be a very short, approximately two minute daily devotional, of various topics. Graphics, scripture verses, poems, quotes, encouragement, as well as subjects to bring conviction and reflection. Links to music, and more material on the daily subject, if I come across something that fits the topic. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. Rom 13:10 Love Worketh No ill to His Neighbor Love would seek to do him good; of course it would prevent all dishonesty and crime toward others. It would prompt to justice, truth, and benevolence. If this law were engraved on every man’s heart, and practiced in his life, what a change would it immediately produce in society! If all people would at once “abandon” what is suited to “work ill” to others, what an influence would it have on the business and commercial affairs of people. How many plans of fraud and dishonesty would it at once arrest. How many schemes would it crush. It would silence the voice of the slanderer; it would stay the plans of the seducer and the adulterer; it would put an end to cheating, and fraud, and all schemes of dishonest gain. The gambler desires the property of his neighbor without any compensation; and thus works “ill” to him. The dealer in “lotteries” desires property for which he has never toiled, and which must be obtained at the expense and loss of others. And there are many “employments” all whose tendency is to work “ill” to a neighbor. This is pre-eminently true of the traffic in “ardent spirits.” It cannot do him good, and the almost uniform result is to deprive him of his property, health, reputation, peace, and domestic comfort. He that sells his neighbor liquid fire, knowing what must be the result of it, is not pursuing a business which works no ill to him; and love to that neighbor would prompt him to abandon the traffic; see Hab_2:15, “Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, that putteth thy bottle to him, and makest him drink also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness.” (Albert Barnes)
11/28/2024 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name. For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations. Psa 100:4-5 UNIVERSAL PRAISE
11/27/2024 So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to all generations. Psa 79:13 “HELP US, O GOD OF OUR SALVATION”
11/26/2024 Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer. Psa 101:5 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. James 3:6 A World of Iniquity
11/25/2025 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: Pa 103:2 THE LORD’S ABUNDANT MERCIES
11/24/2024 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. Eph 5:11 Influence of Bad Company
11/23/2024 And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water. And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus. But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me. And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt? Mat 14:28-31 His Strength is Perfect
November 22, 2024 Thy mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds. Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast. Psa 36:5-6 His Mercies New Every Morning
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Two minutes daily of devotions and content that hopefully will add a blessing and thoughtfulness to your day. Look To This Day
Look to this day, For it is the very life of life. In its brief course lie all the verities and realities of your existence: The glory of action, The bliss of growth, The splendor of beauty, For yesterday is a dream and tomorrow is only a vision; But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day Anonymous Archives |