January 25 ~

... the anger of man does not work the righteousness of God ... He who trusts in his own mind is a fool; but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered ... the heart is deceitful above all things ... He that committeth sin is of the devil ... "I speak to them in parables; for they look without seeing, and listen without hearing or understanding" ... The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them ... Butter and curds and wild honey shall he eat, when he knows to refuse the evil and choose the good ...
Js.1:20 (RSV); Prov.28:26 (RSV); Jer.17:9 (NIV); 1 Jn.3:8 (KJV); Matt.13:13 (Beck): Prov.20:12 (KJV); Is.7:15 (Amp)

A fool am I to listen to, agree
with my own angry arguments, complaints ...
Their apperceptions of reality
cannot be true! They are my enemy --
the thoughts themselves! Alas, among the saints
who truly comprehends, amidst the press
of daily life, that God all things doth send
- both good and ill - then doth the saint address
with Still Small Voice: "Choose Good! Choose Love! Confess
to Me thy failures, and thy heart I'll mend.
Not what thou do for Me, but what thou think:
the way thou art: what's in thy heart -- these count
above all! Art thou of Me - or sin? Drink
of Me! To high places thy soul will mount!"

For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things ... "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink" ... "He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life ... He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him" ... As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: Rooted and built up in him ... live in Him ... abide in Him ... He maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and setteth me upon my high places ...
Rom.11:36 (NAS); Jn.7:37 (KJV); 6:54,56 (NAS); Col.2:6,7 (KJV); 2:6 (Beck); 1 Jn.2:28 (NAS); Ps.18:33 (KJV).

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