Devotions 9/20/01
In
the hour of my favor I answered you; on the day of deliverance I came to your
aid. This is the hour of favor, this
the day of deliverance. Lest our
ministry be brought into discredit, we avoid giving any offence in
anything. As God’s ministers, we try to
recommend ourselves in all circumstances by our steadfast endurance: in
affliction, hardship, and distress; when flogged, imprisoned, mobbed;
overworked, sleepless, starving. We
recommend ourselves by innocent behavior and grasp of truth, by patience and
kindness, by gifts of the Holy Spirit, by unaffected love, by declaring the
truth, by the power of God. We wield
the weapons of righteousness in right hand and left. Honor and dishonor, praise and blame, are alike our lot: we are
the imposters who speak the truth, the unknown men whom all men know; dying we
still live on; disciplined by suffering, we are not done to death; in our
sorrows we have always cause for joy; poor ourselves, we bring wealth to many;
penniless, we own the world.
2
Corinthians 6:2-10
Revised
English Bible
The
water in his vessels shall overflow, and his seed shall be like great waters…
Num.
24:7 R.E.B.
I
was thinking about us as God’s vessels and “the seed is the Word of God.” Timely words for us during the days and
weeks ahead. He also reminded me of Is.
33:6 “And He shall be the stability of your times….” But as I read the R.E.B.
it is even richer…”Her strength will be in Your unchanging stability, her
deliverance in wisdom and knowledge; her treasure is the fear of the Lord.”
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