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Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quote

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If Jesus returns tomorrow, then tomorrow I’ll rest from my labor.  But today I have work to do.  I must continue the struggle until it’s finished.

From Galatians 6:9:  “So let us not grow weary in doing what is right, for we will reap at harvest time, if we do not give up.”

German-born Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) was a Lutheran pastor, theologian, and anti-Nazi dissident.  Many of his writings express the role of Christianity in mankind’s daily lives.  He paid the ultimate price for his activism against the Nazi regime during World War II.

Monday Memories: Grace from Above

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From Micah 6:8:  “He has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?”

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Filled with mercy and love

God’s Word becoming flesh

Grace and truth, Christ proclaims

Spirit comes to refresh

 

God’s message resonates

Resist dark temptations

Gives grace to the humble

Receive His salvation

 

Believing in Jesus

Saved by “Amazing Grace”

Love transcends from above

Light shines upon each face

 

Doesn’t look for our faults

Our Lord never keeps score

His grace given freely

Loving us, evermore

 

Transformation through faith

Raising life from the dead

Unfathomable love

By grace, and blood Christ shed

 

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From the words of American pastor and Christian author, Charles Swindoll:  “Grace operates apart from the response or the ability of the individual.  Grace is one-sided.  Grace is God giving Himself in full acceptance to someone who does not deserve it and can never earn it and will never be able to repay.”

Originally published October, 2020.

Oswald Chambers Quote

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If you abandon to Jesus, and come when He says “Come,” He will continue to say “Come” through you; you will go into life reproducing the echo of Christ’s “Come.”

From Mark 1:17:  “And Jesus said to them, ‘Follow me, and I will make you fishers of people.'”

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.

New Day (Elfchen Series #245)

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Trusted Voice

Rekindled

Within thee

Spirit of truth

Grace rises with Christ

Encouragement

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Shared Peace

 Devoted

To prayer

Spirit’s daily presence

Reaching out from Christ

Witness

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Enlightened Moment

Nourished

With goodness

Light’s eternal journey

Blessings through Christ’s love

Faith

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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.

Well of Grace

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From Colossians 3:1-2:  “So if you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.  Set your minds on the things that are above, not on the things that are on earth.”

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Experiencing God’s grace

Feeling His generous love

Tasting heavenly goodness

New life found in Christ above

 

Renewing spirit of grace

Casting aside former ways

Escaping darkest trials

Christ’s sunrise erases gray

 

Drinking from God’s well of grace

Reading His Word, laced with hope

Sharing His righteous message

Faith matures, viewed through Christ’s scope

 

Embracing truth in God’s grace

Nourishing faith, now rejoice

Sustaining joy with each step

Christ’s glory in risen voice

 

Harvesting gifts from God’s grace

Setting mind on peace above

Filling heart with blessed hymns

Harmony flows from Christ’s love

 

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From Colossians 3:15:  “And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.”

Faith’s Risen Place

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From Joel 2:12-13:  “Yet even now, says the Lord, return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; rend your hearts and not your clothing.  Return to the Lord your God, for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from punishment.”

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Even in our darkness

Hearing call from God above

Troubled waters’ rising tide

Vanquished by boundless love

 

Caught in sin’s wilderness

Mourning with daily fasting

Come now, embrace repentance

Trusted peace, long-lasting

 

Born in sin’s emptiness

Pursuing redemption’s door

God, create one more clean heart

Wandered away, no more

 

Broken righteous spirit

Escaping evil’s fire pit

Better days waiting ahead

Restored faith now submits

 

Hope’s journey pursues light

Thirsting for faith’s risen place

Glory waits at Calvary

Witnessed in Savior’s grace

 

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From Psalm 51:10-11:  “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me.  Do not cast me away from Your presence, and do not take Your holy spirit from me.”

Redemption’s Trusted Drum

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From the “General Confession” found in the Book of Common Prayer:  “We have left undone those things which we ought to have done.”

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Skeptics whispering with doubts

Tomorrow shall never come

Priorities breathe empty

Hearing enemy’s distant drum

 

Disciples praise God each day

Indeed, His kingdom shall come

Priorities set on Christ

Hearing blessed, heavenly drum

 

Skeptics gather in darkness

Distant worries always come

Priorities ignore light

Hearing only, that hidden drum

 

Disciples find hope in God

Heaven’s light rises to come

Priorities embrace truth

Hearing faith’s righteous, heartfelt drum

 

Skeptic’s voices now wither

Tomorrow will surely come

Priorities flee darkness

Hearing echoes of faithful drum

 

Disciples accept God’s grace

Through Son’s love, sunrise will come

Priorities witness peace

Hearing redemption’s trusted drum

 

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From 2 John 8-9:  “Be on your guard, so that you do not lose what we have worked for but may receive a full reward.  Everyone who does not abide in the teaching of Christ, but goes beyond it, does not have God; whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.”

Oswald Chambers Quote

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The reception of the Holy Spirit is the maintained attitude of the believer.  When we receive the Holy Spirit, we receive quickening life from the ascended Lord.

From Luke 24:49:  “And see, I am sending upon you what My Father promised, so stay here in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”

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.

Richard Baxter Quote

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This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.

From John 6:35:  “Jesus said to them, ‘I am the bread of life.  Whoever comes to Me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in Me will never be thirsty.'”

Richard Baxter (1615-1691) was an English-born, Puritan pastor and Christian theologian.

Charles Swindoll Quote

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Nothing stands the test like solid character.  You can handle the blast like a steer in a blizzard.  You keep standing against the wind and the howling, raging storm because Christ is at work in your spirit.

From Psalm 119:165:  “Great peace have those who love Your law;
    nothing can make them stumble.”

Charles Swindoll (born 1934) is an American pastor and Christian author.