My Daily Meditation

Today’s Reading

The Epistle -to the Hebrews

Chapter 11:8-12

Faithful Patriarch Abraham 

8 By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed God, to go out into a place, which he should afterward receive for inheritance, and he went out, not knowing whither he went. (a)
9 By faith he abode in the land of promise, as in a strange country, as one that dwelt in tents with Isaac and Jacob heirs with him of the same promise.
10 For he looked for a city having a foundation, whose builder and maker is God.
11 Through faith Sarah also received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful which had promised.
12 And therefore sprang thereof one, even of one which was dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand of the sea shore which is innumerable.

(a) Editor’s thought - meditate on the key words of vs 8 faith and obeyed. 

Evening Reflection

“Furthermore, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are worthy love, whatsoever things are of good report, if there be any virtue, or if there be any praise, think on these things.” 

The Epistle of the Apostle Paul to the Philippians Chapter 4:8

Salvation By Faith (Part 2) - John Wesley (Edited by RPW Sr.)

"By Grace are ye saved through faith." Ephesians 2.8

What faith it is through which we are saved?

The faith through which we are saved, in that sense of the word which will hereafter be explained, is not barely that which the Apostles themselves had while Christ was yet upon earth; though they so believed on him as to "leave all and follow him;" although they had then power to work miracles, to "heal all manner of sickness, and all manner of disease;" yea, they had then "power and authority over all devils;" and, which is beyond all this, were sent by their Master to "preach the kingdom of God."

What faith is it then through which we are saved It may be answered, first, in general, it is a faith in Christ: Christ, and God through Christ, are the proper objects of it. It is fully distinguished by this: it is not barely a speculative, rational thing, a cold, lifeless assent, a train of ideas in the head; but also a disposition of the heart. For thus saith the Scripture, "With the heart man believeth unto righteousness;" and, "If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thy heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved."

And herein does it differ from that faith which the Apostles themselves had while our Lord was on earth, that it acknowledges the necessity and merit of his death, and the power of his resurrection. It acknowledges his death as the only sufficient means of redeeming man from death eternal, and his resurrection as the restoration of us all to life and immortality; inasmuch as he "was delivered for our sins, and rose again for our justification." Christian faith is then, not only an assent to the whole gospel of Christ, but also a full reliance on the blood of Christ; a trust in the merits of his life, death, and resurrection; a recumbency upon him as our atonement and our life, as given for us, and living in us; and, in consequence hereof, a closing with him, and cleaving to him, as our "wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption," or, in one word, our salvation.

My Daily Meditation

Today’s Reading

The Epistle to the Hebrews

Chapter 11:4-7

4 By faith Abel offered unto God a greater sacrifice than Cain, by the which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: by the which faith also he being dead, yet speaketh.
5 By faith was Enoch translated, that he should not see death: neither was he found: for God had translated him: for before he was translated, he was reported of, that he had pleased God.
6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God, must believe that God is, and that he is a rewarder of them that seek him. (a)
7 By faith Noah being warned of God of the things which were as yet not seen, moved with reverence, prepared the Ark to the saving of his household, through the which Ark he condemned the world, and was made heir of the righteousness, which is by faith.

(a) Editor’s notation - Re: vs 6 - Read Isaiah 55:5-7; Amos 4:12; Matthew 24:44; 

Evening Reflections

“Furthermore, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are worthy love, whatsoever things are of good report, if there be any virtue, or if there be any praise, think on these things.” 

The Epistle of the Apostle Paul to the Philippians Chapter 4:8

Prepare To Meet Thy God - Part Three 

by Robert G. Lee (1886-1978)

(Edited by RPW Sr.)

I think of young men and women who may be listening to me today. I think of business men, rich men, poor men, I think of many kinds of people who may be listening to me at this time, and I am saying to you, don't you be slow in accepting the Lord Jesus Christ. If you say, "Well, I'll put it off, I'll wait until some mere convenient season," I am saying to you that you are too slow. The devils in hell, if they talked to you and told you the truth, would say that if you are delaying for one hour you are being too slow. And if you are delaying for one day the angels of heaven would say, "You are being too slow." Loved ones over there in the Glory looking for you and waiting for you, if you are still putting this thing off are saying to you, "You are too slow." And this Book says that you are too slow if you are putting it off and waiting; the Holy Spirit says that you are too slow. Oh, be not too slow! Let this be the day when  you say "I can, I will, I do believe, today; here today by my radio, here today in my car, here today in my kitchen, here today in my business office, here today, I bow the knee, I lift my hand to high heaven and say,

"My life my love I give to thee,  
Oh, Lamb of God who died for me."

Somebody went to Napoleon on one occasion and said, "Oh, sire, you've gained the victory!" Napoleon said, "Yes, yes, I've gained the victory. But another such victory will cost me my kingdom." Oh, man, oh, woman, someone here today has gained a victory, haven't you? Victory over your mother's prayers, yes, some of you have gained victory over tears, you have gained victory over the loss of little ones, little tender hands which have been placed upon your cheek in years gone by. And maybe even today you have gained victory over the pleadings of the preacher; you have gained the victory, you say, over the wooings of the Holy Spirit, victory over the tender pleadings of our great God. But if you win another such victory, I say to you, it may cost' you your soul. Oh, say to Him, "All to Jesus I surrender," today. There where you are, by the radio, t h e re in your room, out in some shop, there in your car speeding on the highway, maybe up in some airplane, oh, say to Christ, "All to Jesus I surrender, all to Thee I surrender, my self, my sin, my all," and He will take your sins away, and He will save your soul. If you are a backslider, come back to Him today. And if you have been wandering far, come back, and He will no more turn you away than your mother would if she were living and you were starving for bread. Let Him have His way with you. Prepare to meet Him! 

This concludes this sermon. I hope and pray that it was uplifting, but more importantly, I hope and pray that it has inspired you to give your life over to Christ. 

28 Come unto me, all ye that are weary and laden, and I will ease you. 

29 Take my yoke on you, and learn of me that I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. 

30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden light.

The Gospel According to Matthew Chapter 11:28-30

My Daily Meditation

Today’s Reading

The Epistle to the Hebrews

Chapter 11:1-3

By Faith We Understand

1 Now faith is the grounds of things which are hoped for, and the evidence of things which are not seen. (a)
2 For by it our elders were well reported of. (b)
3 Through faith we understand that the world was ordained by the word of God, so that the things which we see, are not made of things which did appear. (c)

(a) Editor's thought - Faith is the belief in things that we cannot see, but we know to exist because of the Holy Spirit that lives and speaks within us. 
(b) Editor’s thought - God’s word is a true and testifying witness of the things that are unseen by the human eye. Without our faith in His Word we cannot please Him. 
(c) Editor’s notation - Re: vs 3 - The NKJV uses the word framed in the place of ordained. Both sum up the fact that our Creator has made all things by design. 
Framed - Fitted and united in due form; made; composed; devised 
Ordained -Appointed; instituted; established; settled 
Source Webster’s Dictionary Edition 1828

Evening Reflections

“Furthermore, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are worthy love, whatsoever things are of good report, if there be any virtue, or if there be any praise, think on these things.” 

The Epistle of the Apostle Paul to the Philippians 4:8

Prepare To Meet Thy God - Part Two  

by Robert G. Lee (1886-1978)

(Edited by RPW Sr.)

Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel; and because I will do this 

unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel." Amos 4:12

"Therefore be ye also ready; for in such an hour as ye 

think not the Son of man cometh." Matt. 24:44

You need to get ready. Prepare to meet thy God! And for a Christian to meet God, it must be a wonderful, thrilling thing, a sweet ex- perience, to come face to face with One who died for you, and face to face with One in whom you have trusted. But, oh to meet God, having rejected Jesus Christ, there to stand face to face with God saying, "Yes, Lord, I trampled under my feet the shed blood of Jesus Christ." How terrible a thing that must be and it is a terrible meeting that people have, that is a meeting with God if they have not put their trust in the Christ who died for them.Any man listening to me in this world today who stands face to face with Christ and says, "Yes, I knew he died for me. The preacher told me about it, the Bible recorded it, but I said no, and I trampled under my dirty feet His holy blood." God will say to you "Depart from me, you worker of iniquity, into the hell-fire prepared for the devil and his angels." God help people. God help men and women to prepare to meet God. It is the only sensible way in this world for men and women to live. Every hearse says it is the only sensible way. Every obituary column testifies that it is the only sensible way for people to live, and every hearse and every cemetery and every white tomb-stone and every vacant chair in your household, says to you, "Prepare to meet 
God." It may be your time next.

A young girl down in my church came by me one night after the preaching and she said, "Oh, after hearing a sermon like that I am so glad I am a Christian." She said, "My sweetheart and I want to see you in just a few weeks to get you to marry us." I said, "Well, Mary, I am glad that you are a Christian, too." About an hour after that my telephone rang and somebody said, "Oh, something awful has happened. Mary and her sweetheart went out riding on Highway 51, ran into a truck of logs and Mary is dead." When I saw her, and saw her all mangled and bruised, when I rushed over to the home that night, I said, "Thank God that Mary was ready to meet God." With all our high- ways where death comes so quickly, I wonder why it is that we have to preach so hard, and pray so much, and be so insistent with men and women, who seem to have good sense about other things and no sense about this thing of meeting God and of the uncertainty of life and of the certainty of death. It's the only lovely life that people can live in this world, the only life that's worth while, the life of constant preparation to meet God through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Then I bring this question that I want to ask and answer for you. Somebody says, "Well, when should I get ready to meet God?" You know when. When should you get ready? You know when. You don't know when you are going to have to meet Him, but you know this— you know when you should get ready to meet Him. Right now. Every thing in God's Book, every- thing in the wooing of the Holy Spirit, everything that pertains to common sense, everything of human experience, everything that we know anything about that is worth remembering about God an humanity, says N-O-W! NOW! NOW! NOW! Today is the wise man's day; tomorrow is the fool's day. Oh, if you have some kind words to say to somebody, maybe a mother somewhere, maybe you had better say it today—you may not have the chance tomorrow. If you have something you need to make right, make it right now. If your soul is out of the ark of redemption and salvation, now is the time to enter. Right now! "Just now, come into my heart, Lord Jesus — now." N-O-W, NOW! Yes, today is the wise man's day, and tomorrow is the fool's day; and yet so many people let tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creep in from day to day.

My Daily Meditation

Today’s Reading

The Epistle to the Hebrews

Chapter 10:26-39

Greetings in the name of our mighty Savior Jesus Christ

The Just Live by Faith

26 For if we sin willingly after that we have received and acknowledged that truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
27 But a fearful looking for of judgment, and violent fire, which shall devour the adversaries.
28 He that despiseth Moses’ Law, dieth without mercy under two, or three witnesses:
29 Of how much sorer punishment suppose ye shall he be worthy, which treadeth under foot the Son of God, and counteth the blood of the Testament as an unholy thing, wherewith he was sanctified, and doeth despite the Spirit of grace?
30 For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me: I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.
31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
32 Now call to remembrance the days that are passed, in the which, after ye had received light ye endured a great fight in afflictions,
33 Partly while ye were made a gazing stock both by reproaches and afflictions, and partly while ye became companions of them which were so tossed to and fro.
34 For both ye sorrowed with me for my bonds, and suffered with joy the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves how that ye have in heaven a better, and an enduring substance.
35 Cast not away therefore your confidence which hath great recompense of reward.
36 For ye have need of patience, that after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
37 For yet a very little while, and he that shall come, will come, and will not tarry.
38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any withdraw himself, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
39 But we are not they which withdraw ourselves unto perdition, but follow faith unto the conservation of the soul.