Hebrews 4:12 – For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
The New Day Mercies Daily Nugget is a daily devotional written by Jim Sole; a retired pastor of QBC. We hope you find encouragement, guidance, and conviction unto holiness through the scriptures and commentary.
When something is common, tolerated, and not dealt with for what it is, it simply becomes an acceptable “flaw” and chalked up as just being human. That is very dangerous.
It could have happened like this. I mean, we find other accounts in scripture of God’s messengers, angels, visiting His people at night so maybe it was so with Mary.
We are going to go someplace. We are going to make a decision where to run when we encounter the inevitable drowning circumstances in life.
Here is a quick one question Bible quiz. Of the Ten Commandments which one stands out and leads to a breaking of all the other nine? Which one is the door, that if disobeyed and allowed, opens us to all other kinds of sin?
Today’s scripture is one of those places we feel like taking our shoes off; for this is holy ground. It is a sacred time and place. It is one causing us to pause and reflect.
PSALM 31:9-10 – Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am in distress; my eye is wasted from grief; my soul and my body also. For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away.” Go back up to the scripture and identify the types and levels…