The best,in my opinion, and of many others,daily devotional book for Christians is "My Utmost for His Highest" by the late Oswald Chambers.
Here is a link to today"s reading for the last day of the year,
http://utmost.org/classic/today/
I have also taken the liberty to include the text in full.
As we go forward in the new year 2017 we would do well to heed these words and step forward in Faith.
Here is a link to today"s reading for the last day of the year,
http://utmost.org/classic/today/
I have also taken the liberty to include the text in full.
As we go forward in the new year 2017 we would do well to heed these words and step forward in Faith.
Yesterday
Security from Yesterday. “God requireth that
which is past.” At the end of the year we turn with eagerness to all
that God has for the future, and yet anxiety is apt to arise from
remembering the yesterdays. Our present enjoyment of God’s grace is apt
to be checked by the memory of yesterday’s sins and blunders. But God is
the God of our yesterdays, and He allows the memory of them in order to
turn the past into a ministry of spiritual culture for the future. God
reminds us of the past lest we get into a shallow security in the
present.
Security for To-morrow. “For the Lord will go before you.” This is a gracious revelation, that God will garrison where we have failed to. He will watch lest things trip us up again into like failure, as they assuredly would do if He were not our rereward. God’s hand reaches back to the past and makes a clearing-house for conscience.
Security for To-day. “For ye shall not go out with haste.” As we go forth into the coming year, let it not be in the haste of impetuous, unremembering delight, nor with the flight of impulsive thoughtlessness, but with the patient power of knowing that the God of Israel will go before us. Our yesterdays present irreparable things to us; it is true that we have lost opportunities which will never return, but God can transform this destructive anxiety into a constructive thoughtfulness for the future. Let the past sleep, but let it sleep on the bosom of Christ.
Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.
Security for To-morrow. “For the Lord will go before you.” This is a gracious revelation, that God will garrison where we have failed to. He will watch lest things trip us up again into like failure, as they assuredly would do if He were not our rereward. God’s hand reaches back to the past and makes a clearing-house for conscience.
Security for To-day. “For ye shall not go out with haste.” As we go forth into the coming year, let it not be in the haste of impetuous, unremembering delight, nor with the flight of impulsive thoughtlessness, but with the patient power of knowing that the God of Israel will go before us. Our yesterdays present irreparable things to us; it is true that we have lost opportunities which will never return, but God can transform this destructive anxiety into a constructive thoughtfulness for the future. Let the past sleep, but let it sleep on the bosom of Christ.
Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.
Wisdom From Oswald Chambers
Christianity is not consistency to conscience or to convictions; Christianity is being true to Jesus Christ. Biblical Ethics, 111 L
"Let the past sleep, but let it sleep on the bosom of Christ.
Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him."
"Let the past sleep, but let it sleep on the bosom of Christ.
Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him."
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