DAILY?READINGS: 1 Samuel 6-7; Isaiah 48; 2 Corinthians 9
They … walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward. Jeremiah 7:24
The business world says there is no such thing as standing still—either we are making progress and moving forward or we are falling behind. Paul reminded Timothy that as we meditate on and give ourselves wholly to the truths of Scripture our profiting (progress) will appear to all (1 Tim. 4:15). As our text suggests, when we “do our own thing” as is currently popular, we are actually going backwards.
—William Gustafson
Marching on, marching on,
For Christ count everything but loss!
And to crown Him King, we’ll toil and sing,
’Neath the banner of the cross! —D. Whittle