Choice Gleanings

August 6

DAILY READINGS: 1 Samuel 13; Isaiah:52:1-12 [1] Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean. [2] Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion. [3] For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money. [4] For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause. [5] Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed. [6] Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I. [7] How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth! [8] Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again Zion. [9] Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem. [10] The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God. [11] Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD. [12] For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rereward.
See All...; 2 Cor:12:14Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
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Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth... Psalm:60:4Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.
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Solomon tells us that God’s banner is love (Song:2:4He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.
See All...). Jesus taught that love should characterize those that are His. “Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church” (Eph:5:25Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
See All...). “A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another” (John:13:34A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
See All...). “And I have declared unto them thy name...that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them” (John:17:26And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
See All...). Display the banner of God’s love in your life. Let all around you learn something of the love of God through you. May the love of God truly be shed abroad in your heart. —D. Pickup

The love of God is greater far than tongue or pen can ever tell;

It goes beyond the highest star, and reaches to the lowest hell. —F. Lehman

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