Monday Memories: Choices Through Faith

From the words of American pastor and Christian evangelist, Vance Havner:  “Life is a series of choices between the bad, the good, and the best.  Everything depends on how we choose.”

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Our daily walk encounters many tests

Life’s decisions shall never be easy

Facing a series of heartfelt choices

Sometimes feeling so alone and uneasy

 

Quality decisions lead life forward

God’s Word and righteousness always shining

Making choices, pleasing to our Father

Our Lord’s love, His sacred silver lining

 

God chooses our Savior—His Holy Son

Jesus becomes our faithful source of life

Bringing lasting redemption to ourselves

Hope-filled Cross saving the foolish from strife

 

Our Father calls many, few are chosen

His chosen, precious cornerstone—Jesus

Believing in Him, never put to shame

Living by faith through our Lord, who frees us

 

Jesus chooses us in His Father’s name

Days ahead offer bounties of treasures

Following His love and wealth of teachings

Therefore, bear lasting fruit through His measures

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From 2 Corinthians 5:6-7:  “So we are always confident; even though we know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord–for we walk by faith, not by sight.”

Originally published May, 2020.

A. W. Tozer Quote

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Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.

From 1 John 2:3:  “Now by this we know that we have come to know Him, if we obey His commandments.”

Charles Swindoll Quote

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Only through faith in Christ do we have the assurance of hope beyond the grave.

From Romans 6:8:  “But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him.”

Faithful Father (Elfchen Series #180)

Blessed Light

Morning’s

Faithful sunrise

Gifted from Father

Love opens another window

Hope

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Living Bread

Prayer’s

Comforting conversation

Father’s faithful presence

Nourishes another hungry heart

Hope

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Forward Looking

Evening’s

Glorious sunset

Created by Father

Faithful tomorrow always waiting

Hope

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This series of poems (written in the German-inspired style of Elfchen or Elevenie) shares a total of eleven words in each poem, with a sequence by line of one, two, three, four, and one words.

George Whitefield Quote

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Be humble, talk little, think and pray much.

From 2 Chronicles 7:14:  “If My people who are called by My name humble themselves, pray, seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”

George Whitefield (1714-1770) was an English-born pastor and Christian evangelist.  He spent the second half of his life in the American colonies.

Max Lucado Quote

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We exist to exhibit God, to display His glory.  We serve as canvases for His brush stroke, papers for His pen, soil for His seeds, glimpses of His image.

From Romans 11:36:  “For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things.  To Him be the glory forever.  Amen.”

Gospel’s Revelations (Elfchen Series #179)

Encouraging

Grace

Unconditionally offered

Father’s timely gift

Propelling faith’s lasting peace

Love

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Fulfilling

Hope

Tomorrow’s destiny

God’s everlasting promises

His faithful, righteous Word

Trust

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Beholding

Courage

Undeniably witnessed

Savior’s steadfast journey

Mercy’s blood spilling over

Faith

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Oswald Chambers Quote

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When the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, Jesus Christ is easily first.

From 2 Peter 1:5-7:  “For this very reason, you must make every effort to support your faith with excellence, and excellence with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with endurance, and endurance with godliness, and godliness with mutual affection, and mutual affection with love.

Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) was a Scottish evangelist and Christian teacher.  Following his death from an illness while in Egypt during World War I, his wife took on the task of transcribing the detailed notes she had written from his lectures and sermons.  Gertrude Hobbs Chambers’ efforts resulted in the publication in 1924 of MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST.  I frequently read from this devotional, and it has greatly deepened my faith and understanding of God’s Word.

Max Lucado Quote

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God grants us an uncommon life to the degree we surrender our common one.

From Matthew 16:24-25:  “Then Jesus told His disciples, ‘If any wish to come after me, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.  For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for My sake will find it.'”

Joel R. Beeke Quote

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We put on God by putting on His armor.  Christ himself wore and made the armor, and the Holy Spirit fits it to us and makes it ours.

From Ephesians 6:10-12:  “Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His power; put on the whole armor of God, so that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil, for our struggle is not against blood and flesh but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.”

Joel R. Beeke (born 1952) is an American pastor and Christian theologian.