Springing Ahead with Hope and a Bible Habit – Purity 1900
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Good morning,
Today’s photo of several patches of spontaneously sprouting daffodils in between a rustic barn and a rustic fence comes to us from yours truly as I captured this spring scene just up the road from my countryside home in Easton, on April 20th, 2025.
Well, it’s Monday, March 2nd, and I am positively overjoyed at the arrival of a new month and the potential for a new season as spring will officially be here in just over 2 weeks, on Friday, March 20th. That’s right, believe it or not, weather permitting and green signs of a new season or not, Spring will be here in 18 days! If you couldn’t tell, winter is not my favorite season, and just knowing that the page has turned on the “uary” months of 2026 for good fills my heart with joy.
When you are going through a trial or a tough season in life, every day you persevere and endure through it is another day closer to freedom and deliverance and even though you may have no guarantees that the days ahead will be markedly better, you at least can celebrate surviving thus far and hold on the hope that things will change for the better further down the road, in about 18 days or so, for instance.
When you are going through hell, keep going, right?
One way we can get from here to there, along the path of Christian discipleship, is to number our days and to check in with the Lord to thank Him for each passing day and to be filled with His love and wisdom through regular spiritual formation practices such as gratitude, prayer, and Bible Study.
Speaking of reading the word, the Turning Point with Dr. David Jeremiah addresses the topic of making Bible Study a habit, and I am sharing it on the blog today to encourage all of us to draw close to the Lord through His word. Dr. David Jeremiah writes:
“THE BIBLE HABIT
Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed in Him, “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” – John 8:31-32
Ovid said, “Nothing is stronger than habit.” Habits are those patterns of daily behavior that make us who we are. For the believer, the habit of daily Bible reading and prayer is the reservoir of our spiritual vitality. George Müller said, “The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts.”
Have the pressures of life disrupted this habit in your life? Sometimes Christians get out of the habit of reading and studying the Scriptures. They miss a day, then another. Eventually, Satan uses this to silently steal away their desire for the Word. Don’t allow that to happen. What we do occasionally may inspire us, but what we do every day shapes us. We must abide in His Word!
If you’ve missed your Bible time recently, start back. Today!” – David Jeremiah
God’s Word is the instrument by which God’s Spirit transforms the Christian. – Robert M. Horn
Amen. As a Christian Life Coach, I often encourage clients to develop good habits to help them to achieve the goals that they wish to accomplish.
When clients have a goal to have a better relationship with God or to grow in their faith, I will often recommend Christian books that quote scripture and summarize the spiritual truths about their identity in Christ or other aspects of Christian living that I feel will be helpful.
As helpful as some of the Christian books I recommend may be, I also try to impress upon them the importance of developing a daily habit of Bible Study and prayer because even though I want to distill what I have learned about living by faith to help them, I know that in many ways, there are no short cuts when it comes to being transformed into the person God made us to be.
Every day they spend seeking the Lord in prayer, Bible study, and by thought and action is another step towards freedom and victory, but I can’t read the word for them.
The Lord will use their time of Bible reading to reveal His mysteries on a very personal level – but it doesn’t happen if they don’t get serious about reading the Bible and making the commitment to apply its wisdom to their lives.
If you are reading the Bible daily, congratulate yourself for being faithful and making a wise decision. Keep reading, pray for revelations, and keep an open ear for what the Lord may be saying to you.
If you haven’t found the time yet to read the Bible, pray to God to help you to establish this important habit, even if it is only a few minutes a day.
The word says we are saved and made new through God’s word, and all you have to do to experience your new life in Christ is to put God’s word in your heart and mind and allow it to move you in the way you should go.
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For those who want more evidence for Christianity than my simple encouragements provide, I offer apologist Frank Turek’s website, https://crossexamined.org/.
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Today’s Bible verse comes to us from “The Quick Scripture Reference for Counseling” By John G. Kruis.
(While Bible verses on various topics of Counseling can be found with a quick Google search, we encourage you to purchase this resource to support the late author’s work. (The Quick Scripture Reference for Counseling By John G. Kruis on Amazon )
This morning’s meditation verse comes from the section on the Providence of God.
Isaiah 45:9–13
Isaiah 45:9–11 (NLT) What sorrow awaits those who argue with their Creator. Does a clay pot argue with its maker? Does the clay dispute with the one who shapes it, saying, “Stop, you’re doing it wrong!” Does the pot exclaim, “How clumsy can you be?” How terrible it would be if a newborn baby said to its father, “Why was I born?” or if it said to its mother, “Why did you make me this way?” This is what the LORD says—the Holy One of Israel and your Creator: “Do you question what I do for my children? Do you give me orders about the work of my hands?”
Today’s verses are the second of two passages of scripture that fall under the seventh point of our counseling reference guide resource section on the Providence of God.
7. God is the potter; we are the clay. Be submissive to him.
Today’s Bible verses highlight our relationship with God and suggest that we express our faith with trust and silence any doubts about what the Lord may be doing with us.
The comments of the pot and newborn baby in these verses are accusatory and express a complaining spirit that is more akin to the devil than they are to children of God.
While it is perfectly acceptable to examine our lives to determine where we are in relation to where we wish to be, we should not look at our state and complain that God has done wrong by us. His ways are higher than our ways, and we should trust that God has made us and put us in the situations that we find our selves in for a higher reason or purpose, and that the difficulties we face will help us to grow in to the people that He made us to be.
So don’t complain to God that He didn’t make you right; instead, ask Him how you can endure until you are shaped into His masterpiece.
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As always, I invite all to go to mt4christ.com, where I always share insights from prominent Christian theologians and counselors to assist my brothers and sisters in Christ with their walk.
Today, we continue sharing from “Pause for Power” By Warren Wiersbe.
As always, I share this information for educational purposes and encourage you all to purchase Wiersbe’s books for your own private study and to support the late author’s work. This resource is available online for less than $20 at many sites.
Day 34 – Surprising Worship – Read Job 1:20–22
The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised. – Job 1:21
The hosts of heaven and of hell watched to see how Job would respond to the loss of his wealth and his children. He expressed his grief in a manner normal for that day, for God expects us to be human (1 Thess. 4:13). After all, even Jesus wept (John 11:35). But then Job worshipped God and uttered a profound statement of faith (Job 1:21).
First, he looked back to his birth: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb.” Then Job looked ahead to his death: “And naked I will depart.” He would not return to his mother’s womb, because that would be impossible. He would go to “Mother Earth,” be buried, and return to dust. Nothing he had acquired between his birth and death would go with him into the next world.
Finally, Job looked up and uttered a magnificent statement of faith: “The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised.” Instead of cursing God, as Satan said Job would do (Job 1:9–11), he praised the Lord! It takes real faith to say in the midst of sorrow and suffering, “May the name of the Lord be praised.”
Something to Ponder – Do you think Job’s worship during his great tragedy suggests that he was in denial of his situation? Explain.[1]
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[1] Warren W. Wiersbe, Pause for Power: A 365-Day Journey through the Scriptures, 2nd Ed., Year in the Word Series (Colorado Springs, CO: David C. Cook, 2010).
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