In recent days, I have been compelled to work through the list given by the apostle Paul from Gal. 5:22-23. Therefore, I will be working through each of the fruits of the Spirit, looking up various passages, verses, and circumstances in which the particular fruit is highlighted or referenced.
Read MoreFor lack of wood the fire goes out
and where there is no whisperer, quarreling ceases.
Prov. 26:20
The image painted by Solomon in this verse is one that most people would immediately understand. To have a useful fire, it requires fuel. In those days, a fire was usually fueled by wood. In the modern world, fire is also fueled by other means. However, the point is the same. If there is no fuel, a fire cannot continue. Therefore, it must be regularly supplied with fuel to keep going.
Read MoreThe Morning Devotional for February 24, 2023
The Westminster Confession of Faith 6.5
V. This corruption of nature, during this life, doth remain in those that are regenerated;a and although it be through Christ pardoned and mortified, yet both itself and all the motions thereof are truly and properly sin.b
Read MoreThe Morning Devotional for February 23, 2023
The Westminster Confession of Faith 6.4
IV. From this original corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed, disabled, and made opposite to all good,a and wholly inclined to all evil,b do proceed all actual transgressions.c
Read MoreThe Morning Devotional for February 20, 2023
The Westminster Confession of Faith 5.7
VII. As the providence of God doth, in general, reach to all creatures, so, after a most special manner, it taketh care of his Church, and disposeth all things to the good thereof.a
Read MoreThe Morning Devotional for February 17, 2023
The Westminster Confession of Faith 5.6
VI. As for those wicked and ungodly men whom God, as a righteous judge, for former sins, doth blind and harden,a from them he not only withholdeth his grace, whereby they might have been enlightened in their understandings and wrought upon in their hearts,b but sometimes also withdraweth the gifts which they had,c and exposeth them to such objects as their corruption makes occasion of sin;d and withal, gives them over to their own lusts, the temptations of the world, and the power of Satan;e whereby it comes to pass that they harden themselves, even under those means which God useth for the softening of others.f
Read MoreThe Morning Devotional for February 15, 2023
The Westminster Confession of Faith 5.4
V. The most wise, righteous, and gracious God doth oftentimes leave for a season his own children to manifold temptations and the corruption of their own hearts, to chastise them for their former sins, or to discover unto them the hidden strength of corruption and deceitfulness of their hearts, that they be humbled;a and to raise them to a more close and constant dependence for their support unto himself, and to make them more watchful against all future occasions of sin, and for sundry other just and holy ends.b
Read MoreThe Morning Devotional for February 15, 2023
The Westminster Confession of Faith 5.4
IV. The almighty power, unsearchable wisdom, and infinite goodness of God so far manifest themselves in his providence that it extendeth itself even to the first fall, and all other sins of angels and men,a and that not by a bare permission,b but such as hath joined with it a most wise and powerful bounding,c and otherwise ordering and governing of them, in a manifold dispensation, to his own holy ends;d yet so as the sinfulness thereof proceedeth only from the creature, and not from God; who, being most holy and righteous, neither is nor can be the author or approver of sin.e
Read MoreThe Morning Devotional for February 14, 2023
The Westminster Confession of Faith 5.3
III. God, in his ordinary providence, maketh use of means,a yet is free to work without,babove,c and against them,d at his pleasure.
Read MoreThe Morning Devotional for February 13, 2023
The Westminster Confession of Faith 5.2
II. Although in relation to the foreknowledge and decree of God, the first cause, all things come to pass immutably and infallibly,a yet by the same providence he ordereth them to fall out, according to the nature of second causes, either necessarily, freely, or contingently.b
Read MoreThe Morning Devotional for February 10, 2023
The Westminster Confession of Faith 5.1 (Part Two)
I. God, the great Creator of all things, doth uphold,a direct, dispose, and govern all creatures, actions, and things,b from the greatest even to the least,c by his most wise and holy providence,d according to his infallible fore-knowledgee and the free and immutable counsel of his own will,f to the praise of the glory of his wisdom, power, justice, goodness, and mercy.g
Read MoreThe Morning Devotional for February 9, 2023
The Westminster Confession of Faith 5.1
I. God, the great Creator of all things, doth uphold,a direct, dispose, and govern all creatures, actions, and things,b from the greatest even to the least,c by his most wise and holy providence,d according to his infallible fore-knowledgee and the free and immutable counsel of his own will,f to the praise of the glory of his wisdom, power, justice, goodness, and mercy.g
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