Psalms 1:1-2
Today I must ask your forgiveness, It probably will not be the last time either. I was in too much of a hurry and too busy yesterday getting ready for the beginning of this new semester to post this. How much time does it take? How much effort is it to copy/paste an already written devotion into a text box? I humbly come before you and request your forgiveness.
Today's devotional is by FB Meyers, a baptist pastor from England in the early part of last century. Well known as a Godly man, he published a daily devotional that is still used today (at least by me this year). This is his devotional for sunday, the 7th of January.
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Psalms 1:1-2 "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."
OUR LORD lived inside the City of
What is Blessedness? According to our Lord's teaching, it is a condition or state of heart. Outward circumstances are not mentioned, unless it be reproach and persecution, as though they were matters of indifference. Blessedness is altogether independent of our outward lot, whether prosperous or perplexed, rich or poor. Blessedness begins and ends with a contented recognition of the Royalty of Christ's Kingdom; in the power of seeing the good in everything, and so inheriting the earth; in being satisfied, in obtaining mercy, in seeing God and being called His sons and daughters. Is it not worth while to strive to enter in at these wide-open doors? And if you can say that you really do yearn after better things, hungering and thirsting for more likeness to Christ, and more fitness for His Kingdom; if that desire really represents the purpose of your life, you may account yourself as being already admitted within the Gates of the Blessed Life.
We must not suppose that Our Lord allocated the award of Blessedness to the possessors of certain attributes with an arbitrary and royal prerogative. He simply declared what was true in the very nature of things. To be true, pure, merciful, and meek, is to have in your possession the seed-germs of the harvest of Blessedness. If you turn from this wonderful enumeration of Christian qualities to Galatians 5:22, you will find all of them set forth in the list of the fruit of the Spirit. May He work in us and through us a well-balanced and full-orbed Christian character.
PRAYER
“Lord, take my lips, and speak through them; take my mind, and think through it; take my heart, and set it on fire. AMEN.”
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