I’ve been having some intellectual fun on the first day of this new year. Christian devotions always give advice for living better. So I checked out the Back to the Bible website to see what some of their devotions discussed. Here’s a good quote from Joy and Strength by Mary Wilder Tileston.
. . .How could I be anything but quite happy
if I believed always that
all the past is forgiven,
and all the present furnished with power,
and all the future bright with hope,. . .
~James Smetham
Key details-
1. past forgiven
2. present power-filled
3. future hope-filled
This Bible verse from the devotion makes a great word picture in your mind about God’s love for His people (good memory verse):
As the mountains are round about Jerusalem,
so the Lord is round about His people
from henceforth even forever.
PSALMS 125:2
Personally, this devotion refers me back to Lamentations 3:22-26
22It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
23They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
24The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
25The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
26It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.