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Ärende: Home Blessings
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From: "Bob Hoffman" <bhoffman@fmlynet.org>

Home Blessings
Faith's Checkbook

March 5

Home Blessings

"He blesseth the habitation of the just" (Proverbs 3:33).

He fears the LORD, and therefore he comes under the divine protection even as
to the roof which covers himself and his family. His home is an abode of love,
a school of holy training, and a place of heavenly light. In it there is a
family altar where the name of the LORD is daily had in reverence. Therefore
the LORD blesses his habitation. It may be a humble cottage or a lordly
mansion; but the LORD's blessing comes because of the character of the
inhabitant and not because of the size of the dwelling.

That house is most blest in which the master and mistress are God fearing
people; but a son or daughter or even a servant may bring a blessing on a whole
household. The LORD often preserves, prospers, and provides for a family for
the sake of one or two in it, who are "just" persons in His esteem, because His
grace has made them so. Beloved, let us have Jesus for our constant guest even
as the sisters of Bethany had, and then we shall be blessed indeed.

Let us look to it that in all things we are just -- in our trade, in our
judgment of others, in our treatment of neighbors, and in our own personal
character. A just God cannot bless unjust transactions.
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The one, precious, all absorbing theme!

from "The Precious Things of God" by Octavius Winslow

The Word of God must ever be transcendently precious to the believer. The Bible
is, from its commencement to its close, a record of the Lord Jesus. Around Him
the divine and glorious Word centers; all its wondrous types, prophecies, and
facts gather. His Promise and Foreshadowing, His holy Incarnation, Nativity,
and Baptism, His Obedience and Passion, His Death, Burial, and Resurrection,
His Ascension to heaven, His Second Coming to judge the world, are the grand
and touching, the sublime and tender, the priceless and precious truths
interwoven with the whole texture of the Bible, to which the Two Witnesses of
Revelation, the Old and the New Testaments bear their harmonious and solemn
testimony.

Beloved, let this be the one and chief object in your study of the Bible-
the knowledge of Jesus.

The Bible is not a history, a book of science, or a poem; it is a record of
Christ. Study it to know more of Him, His nature, His love, His work. With the
magnanimous Paul, "count all things but loss for the excellency of the
knowledge of Christ Jesus your Lord."

Then will God's Word become increasingly precious to your soul, and its truths
unfold.

In every page you will,
trace the history of Jesus,
see the glory of Jesus,
admire the work of Jesus,
learn the love of Jesus, and
hear the voice of Jesus.

The whole volume will be redolent of His name, and luminous with His beauty.

Oh, what is the Bible to us apart from its revelation of a Savior! Is there not
great danger of studying it merely intellectually and scientifically, of
reveling among its literary beauties and its grandeur, blind to its true value,
and without any desire to know that precious Savior who died for sinners, that
Divine Redeemer who
purchased the ransom of His Church
with His own blood; that Friend who loves us; that Brother who sympathizes with
us, that enthroned High Priest who intercedes for us within the veil?

Do we study the "Word of Christ" spiritually and honestly, as those whose souls
hunger and thirst for this the bread and water of life?

Do we search it diligently and earnestly as for hidden treasure; treasure
beyond all price? Can we say with David, "O how love I your law! it is my
meditation all the day."

Do we read it with a child like mind, receive it with a believing heart, bow to
its teaching with reverence of soul, and receive its decisions in all questions
of faith and practice as decisive and ultimate?

In a word, do we search the Scriptures humbly, prayerfully, depending upon the
guidance of the Spirit, to find Jesus in them?

Of these Scriptures He is the Alpha and the Omega, the substance, the
sweetness, the glory, the one, precious, all absorbing theme.

Yes, Lord! Your word is precious to our souls, because it reveals to us Your
glory, and tells us of Your love!

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