GOD’S WORD FOR  MAY 27

We are reading from a daily devotional  called “Running To Win” written by Erwin Lutzer  and the late, great D.L. Moody.   Erwin Lutzer is a light in our day as D.L. Moody was in his.  Besides his many ministries, and many books, Pastor Lutzer was Senior Pastor at Moody Church in Chicago for 36 years and now serves as Pastor Emeritus there.  He is Chancelor and a former professor at Moody Bible Institute, where he taught Theology and Ministry, and now has numerous radio teachings.

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John 6:67-68

“Do you want to go away as well?”    “Lord, to whom shall we go?”

D.L. MOODY

The sun is thousands of years old, but gasoline is new.  Shall we then use only gasoline in place of the sun?  Block up all the windows of your houses and have nothing to do with the sun?  You might as well do that as give up the Bible.  Outgrown it!  Why, there is no book to be compared with it.  No other book will lift up the world.  If you could go into a town where men were trying to love without that good book, you would flee from it as they who left Sodom and Gomorrah.  Have infidels ever produced a Knox, a Bunyan, or a Milton?

ERWIN LUTZER

I once read a story about a young man who, in a fit of anger, threw the Bible his mother had given him from a train into a passing field.  Weeks later, he repented of the sin of desecrating God’s Word and returned to the spot, hoping to find his discarded Bible.  The story goes that he met a young man who had found the Bible and, as a result, had come to saving faith in Christ.

My point:  Moody was right, there is no other book like the Bible.  “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.” (Psalm 119:105 KJV).  Someone has said that the Ten commandments are like ten lanterns that guard us from wandering into evil.  As warning lights, they say to us, “don’t slip into the ditch!    Stay on the path.”  “Moreover, by them is your servant warned; in keeping them there is great reward.”  (Psalm 19:11).

The Bible warns us and instructs us, and yet, our appetite for God’s Word is diluted by our addictions to technology and the struggles of life.  We don’t take time to let the Word of God feed us, encourage us, and rebuke us.  Blessed are those who meditate in the law of God “day and night.”  (See Psalm 1 below).

PRAYER

 Father, please help me hide Your word in my heart so I might not sin against You.

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Psalm 1

Blessed is the person who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked,

Nor stand in the path of sinners,

Nor sit in the seat of scoffers!

But his delight is in the Law of the Lord,

And on His Law he meditates day and night.

He will be like a tree planted by streams of water,

Which yields its fruit in its season,

And its leaf does not wither;

And in whatever he does, he prospers

The wicked are not so,

But they are like chaff which the wind blows away.

Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,

Nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

For the Lord knows the way of the righteous,

But the way of the wicked will perish.

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Isaiah 40:8

The grass withers, the flower fades,  but the word of our God stands forever.

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Luke 11:28

But He said, “More than that, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”

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Proverbs 30:5

Every word of God is pure;   He is a shield to those who put their trust in Him.

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Psalm 119:105

Your word is a lamp to my feet  and a light to my path.

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Psalm 119:11

Your word I have hidden in my heart,  that I might not sin against You.

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Psalm 119:9

How can a young man cleanse his way?  By taking heed according to Your word.

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James 1:22

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

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Psalm 107:20

He sent His word and healed them,

And delivered them from their destructions.

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John 15:3

You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.

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