Good Words for Today

“The body they may kill: God’s truth abideth still, His kingdom is forever.”

"Right is right even if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong. God does not change the moral law to suit our behavior." Billy Graham

Go as far as you can go, to the end of the known universe and beyond. And when you have gone as far as you can go, look up and smile because God’s love is still going. You will never reach the end of it.

“Finally a convenient time came. On his birthday Herod gave a banquet” (Mark 6:21). When you ignore your conscience repeatedly, a convenient time for sin always comes.  

Do not pray for success. Pray for faithfulness because faithfulness is the surest path to success.

“I was sinking deep in sin, far from the peaceful shore, Very deeply stained within, sinking to rise no more, But the Master of the sea heard my despairing cry, From the waters lifted me, now safe am I.”

Happy are they who find joy in every season of life. God knows where you are today, and he knows where you will be tomorrow. Lord Jesus, you have given me much that I do not deserve. I pray for the gift of contentment so I might enjoy this season of my life because it too is a gift from you. Amen.

People are crazy. Love them anyway.

My God, thank you for hope that death cannot destroy. Thank you for Jesus because his coming changed everything. Amen.

Jesus didn't come to put perfume on the corpse. He came to raise the dead.

“Thou that hast given so much to me, Give one thing more, a grateful heart.” George Herbert (1633)

Following Jesus looks like fun until you find out where he's going.

Can God set a table in the wilderness? Yes, he can. But you'll never know as long as you stay in Egypt.

We would all be wise to build our lives on Jesus Christ. He is the one true firm foundation that can stand the test of time. Build your life on Jesus and when the ground shakes beneath your feet and the things of the earth crumble to the ground, your life will be secure because you have built on the foundation that can never be moved.

Face to face with Christ, my Savior, Face to face—what will it be, When with rapture I behold Him, Jesus Christ who died for me? From the hymn "Face to Face" by Carrie Breck, 1898.

O Lord, when I look back on the last year, give me a good memory of all the good things you have done for me. Amen.

If you decide to follow Christ, you may not be safe but your life will never be dull.

The devil loves an empty heart because he can move right in. Keep your heart filled with Christ today.

The majority is not always right. Often the majority is dead wrong. Remember Joshua and Caleb.  

We think we are going from the land of the living to the land of the dying. But if you know Jesus, you are going from the land of the dying to the land of the living.

Do not complain about circumstances. That changes nothing. Do not complain about difficult people. That changes nothing. Do not complain about hard challenges. That changes nothing. Ask the Lord, "What do you want me to learn from this?" That changes you.

You came to Christ because someone prayed for you. It might have been a godly mother or father or a friend who witnessed to you or a pastor or a Sunday School teacher or a youth pastor or a deacon or a missionary or a fellow student or a coworker. Don’t think you came to Christ on your own. Someone lifted you before the Throne of Grace, and God moved from heaven to draw you to the Savior. If someone prayed for you when you were lost, won’t you do the same for a friend who needs Jesus?

“And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross" (Colossians 2:15). When Jesus died, something stupendous happened in the spiritual realm. Although it was invisible to the naked eye, it was seen by all the angels and the Old Testament saints. They watched as Jesus, like some conquering Old West hero, entered the infernal regions and disarmed the “bad guys” one by one. Then he marched them in full view of his Heavenly Father so that every created being would know that he had won the victory.

If you don't disciple your kids, the world will gladly do it for you.

The world has no quarrel with a compromising Christian.

“The problem in America today is not the presence of darkness. It's the absence of light.” Jason Benham.

Christ didn't die for good people because there aren't any. He died for sinners and rebels and scoundrels. If you qualify in any of those categories, you can be saved.

Lord, please do whatever needs to be done in my life so that others may see Christ in me. Amen.  Rephrase with Ginger (Ctrl+Alt+E)

Lord, help me to love the irritating people I meet, and help me to remember that someone is probably praying this about me today. Amen.

"Heart of my own heart, whatever befall, Still be my Vision, O Ruler of all."

Just in case you were wondering . . . He's got the whole world in his hands He's got the whole wide world in his hands He's got the whole wide world in his hands He's got the whole world in his hands.

Ecclesiastes 3:7 says there is a "a time to be silent and a time to speak." We need wisdom to know the difference. But pay attention to the order of the verse. A time to be silent comes before a time to speak. Better to be silent than to open your mouth and regret it later. That's the good word for today.

Christians don't fit in, and we never will. We can't serve the world by becoming like the world.

Have you prayed for your pastor today?

Fortify our hearts, Lord Jesus, to trust you more and more. Thank you for promises that can never be broken because you are Promise-keeping God. Amen.

Even in the most difficult moments, God’s people can rejoice because he is at work doing something important in them. More than one person has told me, “I wouldn’t trade my pain for the things God has shown me.” If that doesn’t make sense, it is only because you haven’t been there yet.