Psalm 119:143 Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.
Think about these questions as you meditate on the verse. What does this verse teach me? How does this verse apply to my Life?
The Bent Knee Time – April 27
UNCONSCIOUS GREATNESS
Luke 22:24-30
True greatness never finds out that it is great. It is too much taken up thinking of others. When it finds out that it is great it ceases to be great. If you have discovered that you’re humble, then you may know that you’re not humble. For humility is so absorbed with the dear God, and with others, that it never knows it is humble. But we’ll never understand this till we’ve seen the face of Jesus.
Daily Memory Verse – April 26
The Bent Knee Time – April 26
LOVE IN THE FIRE
Matthew 20:20-28
Human love needs seasoning and tempering, refining and broadening, by the higher, deeper original love, the love of the heart of God. The stronger the human love, like a mother’s, the truer this is. So it gets the clearer vision, the stronger purpose, the finer sacrificial traits of the God-love. And so whatever selfishness may have crept in, sometimes unconsciously, is burned out, and the love is sweeter yet when it gives instead of asking.
Daily Memory Verse – April 25
The Bent Knee Time – April 25
THE ONLY CURE FOR SELFISHNESS
Mark 9:43-50
Selfishness is so ingrained in the human fiber that its cure takes fourfold treatment: a knife, a fluid, a fire, and salt. The knife of a strong purpose to cut it out; the blood of Jesus to wash it out; the fire of the Holy Spirit to burn it out; and the salt of the Book brooded over, and of the Spirit’s indwelling, to spoil the soil so it has a hard time sprouting again.
Daily Memory Verse – April 24
The Bent Knee Time – April 24
A ROUGH SPELLING-LESSON
Mark 9:30-42
Selfishness is the smoother way of spelling Satan. That sounds a bit rough; but it’s true. The inner core of Satan is preferring himself to yes, even to God; wanting everything for himself. Selfishness may be cultured and scholarly and polished (it’s surprising how a coarse thing takes a high polish). Or, it may be coarse and brazen and open. But scratch it; and you always find underneath the hooked Satan fingers reaching and holding.
Daily Memory Verse – April 21
The Bent Knee Time – April 21
LIVING A PRAYER
2King 4:27-37
When prayer takes hold of all there is of you, you can take hold of all you will through prayer. But prayer isn’t saying religious words with your eyes shut and a terminal “amen” attached. Real prayer is a life. It begins as an act. It grows into a habit, then into a mental attitude. Then it becomes your very life. Then the man becomes the prayer. Such prayer can raise the dead, even now, into real life.