Aug 26, 2022 | 2022, Daily Devotion
“Do not judge thy neighbour until thou comest into his place.” – Hillell
“What is forbidden is the censorious judging temper, eager to find faults and condemn men for them, suspicious of motives, detecting, let us say, for example, in controversy, and denouncing, the faintest shade of heresy. No mere rules can guide us as to the limits of our judgments. What we need is to have “our senses exercised to discern between good and evil,” to cultivate the sensitiveness of conscience and the clearness of self-knowledge.” – Ellicott;s Commentary for English Readers
Aug 25, 2022 | 2022, Daily Devotion
“…it is the will and command of the Lord Jesus, that by daily prayers we may get strength to bear us up under our daily troubles, and to arm us against the temptations that attend them, and then let none of these things move us. Happy are those who take the Lord for their God, and make full proof of it by trusting themselves wholly to his wise disposal.” – Matthew Henry
Aug 24, 2022 | 2022, Daily Devotion
What Christ therefore here forbids is… such an anxious care, as arises from want of faith in the being, perfections, and providence of God, and in the declarations and promises of his word, and therefore such an anxious solicitude as engrosses the thoughts and desires of the soul, so as either utterly to exclude or greatly damp and hinder spiritual affections, pursuits, and labours; or which prevents our receiving or our retaining and increasing in the love of God, and the true religion connected therewith. – Benson Commentary“God gave the life and the body; will He not give the smaller gifts of food and clothing?” – Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges“Be not anxious for the future, how you shall live next year, or when you are old, or what you shall leave behind you. As we must not boast of tomorrow, so we must not care for to-morrow, or the events of it. God has given us life, and has given us the body. And what can he not do for us, who did that?” – Matthew Henry
Aug 23, 2022 | 2022, Daily Devotion
“God requires the whole heart, and will not share it with the world. When two masters oppose each other, no man can serve both. He who holds to the world and loves it, must despise God; he who loves God, must give up the friendship of the world.” – Matthew Henry
Aug 22, 2022 | 2022, Daily Devotion
“Do not exhaust your strength and spend your days in providing for the life here, but let your chief anxiety be to be prepared for eternity.” –Barnes Notes on the Bible“To have treasure in heaven is to possess evidence that its purity and joys will be ours. It is to be heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ, to an inheritance incorruptible, undefiled, and that fadeth not away,” – Barnes Notes on the Bible
