Evening Verse “I sleep, but my heart waketh.” Song 5:2 Paradoxes abound in Christian experience, and here is one—the spouse was asleep, and yet she was awake. He only can read the believer’s riddle who has ploughed with the…
Category: Metropolitan Gleanings
Insights and meditations for the thoughtful Christian life.
Morning Verse September 23: Accepted in the beloved. – Ephesians 1:6
Morning Verse September 23 “Accepted in the beloved.” Ephesians 1:6 What a state of privilege! It includes our justification before God, but the term “acceptance” in the Greek means more than that. It signifies that we are the objects of divine…
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What Are You Trying to Get Away With?
Romans 6:18-21 (KJV) 19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants…
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Look Up & Live
2 Chronicles 16:12 In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa was afflicted with a disease in his feet. Though his disease was severe, even in his illness he did not seek help from the Lord, but only from the…
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Reach for God Instead of Guns
“Break Every Chain (There is Power in the Name of Jesus)” by Tasha Cobbs. (Refresh page if you do not see the video. Stereo sound, best heard with headphones.) Psalm 120:6 Too long have I lived among those who…
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To the Pure All Things Are Pure
Titus 1:15-16 (KJV) 15 Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled. 16 They profess that they know God; but in works…
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Remember Lot’s Wife!
Genesis 18:22 The men turned away and went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before the Lord. There are many times in our lives where we need to turn. The word “turn” used in today’s verse means “to face.” When…
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Wise Man, Foolish Man
21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, Romans 1:21-22 (KJV)…
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Got Faith?
17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith. Romans 1:17 (KJV) Scientists and intellectuals often look askance at faith because they think it is vague and…
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Word Therapy
1 And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. 2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of…
