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By long patience is a prince persuaded, and a gentle tongue breaks the bone. (Prov 25:15) Patience and a gentle tongue go together. Both these virtues can turn minds and win wars.
If the world hates you, you know that it hated me before it hated you. (John 15:18) There is a sign that shows that we are of Christ. It is revealed through hatred by the world. And who is the world? All the lust of the world, pride, arrogance and strife. We are not of … Read more
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like unto whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outwardly but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so you also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. (Matt 23:27-28) There is a saying … Read more
Let love be without hypocrisy. (Rom 12:9) In this letter of Paul to the church in Rome, he provides instruction. During the time, Nero, emperor of Rome took to the task of murdering Christians in the cruelest ways imagined. Yet, Paul charges the Christians to love with a godly love. This godly love is without … Read more
Fret not yourself because of evildoers, neither be you envious of the workers of iniquity. For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb. (Ps37:1-2) Within these lines from David, God instructs us not to fret. This world is full of many injustices. There are many injustices that … Read more
For the Lord loves justice, and forsakes not his saints; they are preserved forever: but the descendants of the wicked shall be cut off. (Ps 37:28) Within these words of David, we get to know the Father’s heart of God. He loves justice. Justice is a principle grounded in His infinitive love. Love without justice … Read more
Say not, I will repay evil; but wait on the Lord, and he shall save you. (Prov 20:22) Within these verses, we find that God instructs us. We need to trust His working. Let us leave it to Him to judge and to repay. We are being set free from grudges. We can remain at … Read more
Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart; wait, I say, on the Lord. (Ps 27:14) Within these verses of David, he shares with us a great secret. We should wait on God and have good courage. To wait requires discipline. To wait is attached to a promise. Abraham … Read more
