Pathway in the Sea

Ever see a butterfly flutter by? John 3:7-8


Psalm 77:19

Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.



"The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick along side it."

-D. L. Moody

Saturday, February 11, 2012

A Timely Message from "Our Daily Bread":

 Covenant With My Eyes

February 11, 2012 — by Jennifer Benson Schuldt

Our Daily Bread Radio is hosted by Les Lamborn
Read: Job 31:1-4
I have made a covenant with my eyes. —Job 31:1
Bible in a year:
Numbers 21-24
Our friend is a computer “techie.” One night when our family was at his house, I noticed a verse taped to his monitor: “I have made a covenant with my eyes” (Job 31:1). Evidently, he understood the potential danger of spending hours alone in front of a computer with easy access to indecent images.
Our friend’s “reminder verse” is a quote from Job, and it continues, “Why then should I look upon a young woman?” Like many of us, Job had promised himself to stay free of lust. Reflecting on that oath, he said, “Does [God] not see my ways, and count all my steps?” (v.4). The Bible assures us that God does (Heb. 4:13), and that we are accountable to Him. This is why believers must “abstain from sexual immorality” (1 Thess. 4:3). While some want to debate the boundaries of morality, the Bible says, “Whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart” (Matt. 5:28).
If you have made a covenant with your eyes, consider how Scripture might help you keep this pledge. Post a verse on your computer screen, television, or the dashboard of your car, and remember, “God did not call us to uncleanness” but to holiness (1 Thess. 4:7).

When lustful thoughts assail your mind
To play with immorality,
Remember that God’s will for you
Is holiness and purity. —Sper

A look that lingers can lead to lust.

(Rather than posting verses in conspicuous places in your environment, however, do the scriptural thing and hide them in your heart, that you might not sin against Him. If you are caught up in pornography, Jesus Christ is your Way out. Fallen people get their jollies exposing and looking at and condemning you for YOUR nakedness, and they will be properly rewarded, but people who really know Jesus clothe the socially and spiritually naked.)

Job 31

 1I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?

 2For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?

 3Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?

 4Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?

 5If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;

 6Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine integrity.

 7If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;

 8Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.

 9If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door;

 10Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.

 11For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.

 12For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.


 As Kyle Idleman said on a recent "Life Today" broadcast, we tend to make our relationship with God a "Snuggie" religion, that is, we reduce it to terms which are comfortable for us.


Psalm 119

 5O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!

 6Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.

 7I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.

 8I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.

 9Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.

(It's not too late to turn back! If God wanted to condemn you, you wouldn't be reading this right now, BELIEVE me!)

 10With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.

 11Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

 12Blessed art thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes.

Don't say the "sinner's prayer". Scream your lungs out for Jesus to save you, and don't let complacent "churchians" dissuade you until you are satisfied that you KNOW that the Living God has heard and responded to your cries for mercy. Accept NO substitutes nor counterfeits!


The Present Immanuel by C.H. Spurgeon
"He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you for ever."
--John 14:16
Great Father revealed Himself to believers of old before the coming of His Son, and was known to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as the God Almighty. Then Jesus came, and the ever-blessed Son in His own proper person, was the delight of His people's eyes. At the time of the Redeemer's ascension, the Holy Spirit became the head of the present dispensation, and His power was gloriously manifested in and after Pentecost. He remains at this hour the present Immanuel--God with us, dwelling in and with His people, quickening, guiding, and ruling in their midst. Is His presence recognized as it ought to be? We cannot control His working; He is most sovereign in all His operations, but are we sufficiently anxious to obtain His help, or sufficiently watchful lest we provoke Him to withdraw His aid? Without Him we can do nothing, but by His almighty energy the most extraordinary results can be produced: everything depends upon his manifesting or concealing His power.

Do we always look up to Him both for our inner life and our outward service with the respectful dependence which is fitting? Do we not too often run before His call and act independently of His aid? Let us humble ourselves this evening for past neglects, and now entreat the heavenly dew to rest upon us, the sacred oil to anoint us, the celestial flame to burn within us. The Holy Ghost is no temporary gift, He abides with the saints. We have but to seek Him aright, and He will be found of us. He is jealous, but He is pitiful; if He leaves in anger, He returns in mercy. Condescending and tender, He does not weary of us, but awaits to be gracious still.

Sin has been hammering my heart
Unto a hardness, void of love,
Let supplying grace to cross his art
Drop from above.

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