Serve the Lord With Gladness

Thought For Today - November 5
Serve the Lord with gladness.
By: Robert A. Searles

Serve the Lord with gladness! We who are saved ought to love to serve the Lord. To know that we bring joy to the heart of God when we love him and serve him with a willing spirit ought to make us happy and complete. What better way to spend a life than to faithfully and joyfully be in the service of the King of Kings and Lord of Lords? He loved us so much that while we were contemptible sinners, God gave his only begotten son to die for us, but praise the Lord he arose and is now at the Father's right hand interceding for us and one day will come again to planet earth and rule and reign in righteousness.

"Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands. Serve the Lord with gladness, come before his presence with singing. Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves, we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with Praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name. for the Lord is good, his mercy is everlasting, and his truth endureth to all generations." Psalm 100

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What Are We Doing For the Lord?

Thought For Today - October 31
What Are We Doing For The Lord?
By: Robert A. Searles

Are we using the resources and gifts which God has bestowed upon us for his glory and honor, or are we misusing them for our own glory, or are we hiding them in the ground as did the servant mentioned by Christ in the gospel of Matthew Chapter 25: 14-30 ?

We have all been given talents and abilities, all differing according to the will of God. Some day we will be asked, where is the talent and ability that was given to you? According to what we have done, and how we have trusted and obeyed , and according to our faithfulness or unfaithfulness we will have to answer to our Lord.

How wonderful on that day would it be for our Lord to put his hand on our shoulder and say to us, well done thou good and faithful servant, but how ashamed we will be if we are found empty handed at that day with no crowns to place at our Savior's feet.

Let each of us , therefore: "Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfill it. “Colossians 4: 17.

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Tribute to a Godly Mother

Thought For Today - October 29
Tribute To A Godly Mother!
By: Robert A. Searles

Today, my Father of all creation, I want to thank you for causing me to be born to a godly mother. Not perfect in all her ways to be sure, for all have sinned and come short of the Glory of God; but one whom I believe early in life recognized her need of salvation and to be born again, and reached out by faith to receive the greatest gift that could be offered to her, the Lord Jesus Christ; his life, his shed blood, his death and his glorious resurrection, for the propitiation of her sins.
Consequently, these many years that have passed since she left us, I believe she has been, and is rejoicing in your presence, around your throne with myriads of angels, singing: "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain."

In life she feared God, obeyed the law, and honored her husband. She made her home a haven of rest, a sanctuary from all the tumult and strife that is in the world. She was a friend to all, and her house was like the house by the side of the road, open to all who needed a meal or a shelter. She had but one son, who in her lap and at her knee heard of God for the very first time, who was warned by her to escape hell, that terrible place, and to love and obey God who loves us all. From a tattered old hymn book she taught me to sing: "I am happy in the service of the king, I am happy, oh, so happy."

Not until later years did I realize just how happy I could be in the service of the king, but now my Father, I know that there is no other road to happiness.

I believe that when the trump of God shall sound, when the dead in Christ arise, when time shall be no more, and when the roll is called up yonder, she will be there. Thank you my Father for the Lord Jesus Christ. Thank you for forgiveness of sins. Thank you for eternal life and the hope of heaven, and thank you for a Godly mother


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Safe and Secure

Thought For Today - October 27
Safe And Secure!
By: Robert A. Searles

"They that trust in the Lord shall be as mount Zion which cannot be moved, but abideth forever." Psalm 125: 1.

What a comforting thought this is to the believer. In Christ we are safe and secure . " No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper. and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord." Isaiah 54: 17

"As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his people from henceforth even forever." Psalm 125:2

Oh, how wonderful to have the assurance that the love and protection of our heavenly Father surrounds the child of God for whom Christ died and is risen. He has given his angels charge over us to keep us safe in all our ways, and one day he will guide us to our desired haven, the city which we seek, wherein dwelleth the holiness and righteousness of the King of kings and Lord of lords.

"The rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hand unto iniquity. " Psalm 125:3.

God hath not appointed us, his children, unto wrath, for our judgment is passed, having been placed on our Savior at Calvary ; but he has ordained us to life eternal and everlasting in his heavenly kingdom forever.

O praise the Lord for his goodness, and his mercy to all who will trust in him. Bless his holy name forever.

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May God Be Pleased

Thought For Today - October 19
May God be Pleased!
By: Robert A. Searles

Oh ! That we might live in such a way that God would be pleased with us! If God could say of us - ” This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased," as he said of Jesus our Lord. How wonderful it would be If everywhere we went, and in everything we do, we could glorify God! How wonderful it would be! God is so good to us and his loving kindness and tender mercies are so great toward us.

"Offer unto God thanksgiving, and pay thy vows unto the most high: and call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me." Psalm 50:14,15.
 "Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God." Psalm 50:23.

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Press Forward

Thought For Today - October 18
Press Forward!
By: Robert A. Searles

This is the first day of the rest of our lives. Having come before our Lord this morning in prayer, and according to his faithfulness to cleanse and forgive, having received forgiveness and cleansing, let us begin at the place where we are at this moment, forgetting those things which are behind and reach forward to those things which are before us. We can do nothing about what has passed except to ask God to forgive us for our sins and short coming, but by God's grace and enabling power, we can if we will, take that which we have now and - " Press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." Philippians 3: 14.

What is the prize of the high calling of God? The prize of the high calling of God is - "That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead." Philippians 3:10.

The prize of the high calling of God is our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ - "Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself." Philippians 3: 21


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Light up the World

Thought For Today - October 17
Light Up The World!
By: Robert A. Searles 

Let us Christians who love Christ shine as lights in the world, illuminating the darkness with our presence, and put to shame every evil thing because it is God who worketh in us to perform his good works. We ought to work for God with fear and trembling. We work for earthly employers with fear and trembling, fear of loss of rewards if we fail to perform as we are expected. Much more we ought to work for God with fear of loss of much greater rewards if we fail to perform for him as we as Christians are expected. We who are saved need to be diligent workers for the Lord.

"Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. Do all things without murmurings and disputings: That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation. among whom ye shine as lights in the world; holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither labored in vain." Philippians 2:12-16.

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