Love Shed Abroad

Romans 5:5 says, “And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.” Times were bad. Food was almost nonexistent. Four dirty, unclean, outcast men of society were about to die. It was a time of war. These men were …

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The Hand of the Lord

Joshua 4:24 says, “That the people of the earth might know the hand of the Lord, that it is mighty: that ye might fear the Lord your God for ever.” In The Story of Hans Brinker, by Alex de Wolf, we see a little Dutch boy holding his finger in the dike all night to …

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God’s Trumpet

Revelation 1:10 says, “I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet.” My dad was a Navy man in WWII. I presided at his funeral many years later. The Navy sent out a couple of sailors to present a flag to our family on …

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The Imagination

Deuteronomy 29:19 says, “And it shall come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:” Imagination can be a dangerous thing. It causes us to move from …

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End of the Way

Daniel 12:13 says, “But go thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.” When will the end be? That is a question we like to ignore. The fact of the business is that life as we know it on this earth will …

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AWOL

John 6:66 Staes, “From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.” George Washington had a hard time keeping an army together when fighting the British. A volunteer force of men that had no uniforms, often no shoes or enough food to eat, served for the hope of freedom. …

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Good Works

Ephesians 4:28 says, “Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.” Some have read this verse as follows: “Let him that stole steal, no more working with his hands.” There was a …

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God’s Hornet

Deuteronomy 7:20 says, “Moreover the Lord thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.” While fly fishing along the Naches River, I encountered a lot of brush to battle through. Walking along the road, I would find places to get to the water. …

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My Stubborn Will

Numbers 14:9 says, “Only rebel not ye against the Lord, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defense is departed from them, and the Lord is with us: fear them not.” I was privileged to be with my father-in-law during his last days on earth. I even …

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The Business Man

Luke 2:49 says, “And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father’s business?” One day waiting in my car, in an industrial area of Yakima, Washington, I saw a businessman walk up the cement steps to the office of a warehouse. He …

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