Verse of the Day: Romans 12 on National Oatmeal Day.

 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. -Romans 12

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National Oatmeal Day and National Cat Day.  If you celebrate either of these, remember who ultimately is the provider of these gifts to mankind, our Lord and His son.

Among today's selections, a blurb about Christ more identifying with our sin nature than actually "loving" us.  Mind, we're told in the Bible that Christ sacrificed himself because of love; however, the nugget of the cause was that man was sinful.  Without Him, where are our hopes?

Only Christ, Only The Cross free man from a lost and dying world.

Hope continues in the cause of Christ and the Cross of Redemption: our hope in glory.

Selections

Every choice reduces a little one’s freedom to choose the next time. There therefore comes a time when the creature is fully built, irrevocably attached either to God or to itself. This irrevocableness is what we call Heaven or Hell. -CS Lewis

We rejoice that our King reigns in providence and shall reign in grace, from the river even to the ends of the earth, and of his dominion there shall be no end. -Charles Haddon Spurgeon

 He is accustomed to walk through the glades of Scripture, and to commune with his people, as the Father did with Adam in the cool of the day, and yet you are in the garden of Scripture, but cannot see him, though he is always there. And why do we not see him? It must be ascribed in our case, as in the disciples', to unbelief. They evidently did not expect to see Jesus, and therefore they did not know him. To a great extent in spiritual things we get what we expect of the Lord. Faith alone can bring us to see Jesus. -Charles Haddon Spurgeon

All of those former heroes of the faith are dead. You are alive in your generation. A Bible proverb says that it is better to be a living dog than a dead lion. You may wish to be Abraham or Isaac or Jacob, but remember that they have been asleep for long centuries, and you are still around! You can witness for your Lord today. You can still pray. You can still give of your substance to help those in need. You can still encourage the depressed.  -AW Tozer

The modern view of the death of Jesus is that He died for our sins out of sympathy for us. Yet the New Testament view is that He took our sin on Himself not because of sympathy, but because of His identification with us. -Oswald Chambers