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.
MATTHEW 22:34-38: But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all…
JOHN 5:39: You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me.” Here is the scene that happens among Christians daily, at least I pray it is so among Christians. We get up early in the morning when stillness abounds in our homes or find a secluded place in…
Today’s nugget is going to be different. It is going to contain two things; a book recommendation and ten questions for a healthy spiritual examination.
Today’s scripture is the riveting account of the woman caught in adultery. The lessons abound in this story, but our focus centers on the lesson of contrast.
Simplify. Focus. Stay on track. Keep a single gaze. Don’t make it complex. Those are all exhortations to the single goal we should strive for each day of the Christian life.
If we try hard we can listen and pick up the steady tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock of the clock of our lives second-by-second, minute-by-minute, and year-by-year moving us to the day it stops and our lives on this earth come to an end.