A Thought for Today 31-08-2011

1 Samuel 16:7

God does not see as man sees; man looks at appearances but the Lord looks at the heart.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
(Jean de La Fontaine)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZe6OgBjAFY

A Thought for Today 30-08-2011

1 Thessalonians 5:4-5

It is not as if you live in the dark, my brothers, for that Day to overtake you like a thief. No, you are all sons of light and sons of the day: we do not belong to the night or to darkness.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
(Plato)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om2i4sl_Dk0&feature=related

A Thought for Today 26-08-2011

2 Corinthians 13:4

He was crucified through weakness, but still he lives now through the power of God. So then, we are weak, as he was, but we shall live with him, through the power of God, for your benefit.

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
(Robert Louis Stevenson)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPFiC9GPyJ4&feature=related

Weekly Blessing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmOK4JS46pY&feature=player_embedded

A Thought for Today 25-08-2011

Amos 4:13

He it was who formed the mountains, created the wind, reveals his mind to man, makes both dawn and dark, and walks on the top of the heights of the world; the Lord, the God of Hosts, is his name.

Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.
(Karl Barth)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HIqkVpXZZg&feature=related

A Thought for Today 22-08-2011

Romans 13:8,10

Avoid getting into debt, except the debt of mutual love. If you love your fellow men you have carried out your obligations. Love is the one thing that cannot hurt your neighbour; that is why it is the answer to every one of the commandments.

A man in debt is so far a slave.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkx_rS6hGx4

A Thought for Today 19-08-2011

Romans 12:17,19-20,21

Never repay evil with evil. As scripture says: Vengeance is mine – I will pay them back, says the Lord. But there is more: If your enemy is hungry, you should give him food, and if he is thirsty, let him drink. Resist evil and conquer it with good.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
(Josh Billings)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=3UjjjGBnVjk

Weekly Blessing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZmOK4JS46pY

A Thought for Today 18-08-2011

1 John 3:23-24

His commandments are these: that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and that we love one another as he told us to. Whoever keeps his commandments lives in God and God lives in him. We know that he lives in us by the Spirit that he has given us.

Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai... but he has never improved on God's law.
(Cecil B. DeMille)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73ugyV-f3hA&NR=1

A Thought for Today 17-08-2011

1 John 2:3-6

We can be sure that we know God only by keeping his commandments. Anyone who says, ’I know him’, and does not keep his commandments, is a liar, refusing to admit the truth. But when anyone does obey what he has said, God’s love comes to perfection in him. We can be sure that we are in God only when the one who claims to be living in him is living the same kind of life as Christ lived.

'Thou shalt not get found out' is not one of God's commandments; and no man can be saved by trying to keep it.
(Leonard Bacon)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DgJsp92Vk8