So this year I decided to branch out a bit...and include several others.
I don't read them every day...
And if I'm only able to do 365 days of one thing,
I know there's no question...
I want to stick with the Bible.
But I really do enjoy getting to know different people
and different types of writing through the brief
excerpts included in 365 day collections.
Tomorrow is February 26:
From 365 days with John Newton: "Nicodemus's example is an encouragement to such as are like him. Perhaps some of you are much in his case. You have heard strange stories about the gospel preaching, much evil and some good...It's a good thing to be enquiring after Jesus, as Nicodemus found it...Do you ask what is preached here? I answer--We preach Christ crucified--Christ the wisdom of God and the power of God; Christ the sinner's friend, Christ the sure foundation, Christ the only hope and refuge for lost man...Should I ask this question: What think you of Christ?--perhaps some of you could give me no answer. But perhaps you have never considered that according to your thoughts of Christ, so will your eternal state prove."
From A Year With C.S. Lewis: (excerpt from Mere Christianity) "Whenever you find a man who says he does not believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later. He may break his promise to you, but if you try breaking one to him he will be complaining, 'It's not fair'...It seems, then, we are forced to believe in a real Right and Wrong. People may be sometimes mistaken about them, just as people sometimes get their sums wrong; but they are not a matter of mere taste and opinion any more than the multiplication table."
From Streams in the Desert Volume I : 2 Cor. 12:9--"My grace is sufficient for thee."
His grace is great enough to meet the great things--
The crashing waves that overwhelm the soul,
The roaring winds that leave us stunned and breathless,
The sudden storms beyond our life's control.
His grace is great enough to meet the small things--
The little pin-prick troubles that annoy,
The insect worries, buzzing and persistent,
The squeaking wheels that grate upon our joy.
~Annie Johnson Flint
Seize the Day with Dietrich Bonhoeffer: " 'Goodness, beauty and truth...and all great accomplishments need time, permanence and memory, or else they will deteriorate'...We need to live for more than short-term goals and quick results. The more useful and lasting things in life usually take time, planning, and hard work."
Streams in the Desert Volume II: " 'You shall weep and lament...and you shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy' (John 16:20). Sorrows are too precious to be wasted...I am sure there are many who can thankfully attest that they were brought nearer to God by some short, sharp sorrow than by long days of prosperity. Take care that you do not waste your sorrows; that you do not let the precious gifts of disappointment, pain, loss, loneliness, ill health, or similar afflictions that come into your daily life mar you instead of mending you. See that they send you nearer to God..."
