“The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace.” (Psalms 29:11; all scripture quoted is from the King James Version) “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let [...]
“When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.” Proverbs 29:2 (KJV) Any reader of this devotion with prior military experience will know, without doubt, that there is a cardinal rule of leadership that declares, “Authority can be delegated, but not responsibility.” Nothing could be more [...]
“ And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs. And they talked together of all these things which had happened. And it came to pass, that, while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them. (Luke 24:13-15: [...]
“Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.” (Ecclesiastes 12:7; all scripture quoted is from the king James Version) “When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.” (John [...]
“My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: 2 For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee. 3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: 4 So shalt thou find favour [...]
“ In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre. 2 And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from [...]
“Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.” (Luke 23:34; all scripture quoted is from the King James Version) For most of my life from the age of my Christian accountability I have heard it preached that Jesus forgave even those men who were crucifying Him on the cross at Calvary. But I [...]
“And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God: For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood [...]
The textual basis for this hymn is the account of given in Luke 4:1-13 of the beginning of the ministry of Jesus in which our Lord spent forty days in the Wilderness being tempted by Satan. It may surprise many readers to learn that this great old Lenten hymn was first intended as a children’s [...]