Guidelines For Living Devotional

"A tree is best measured when it is down," says Chuck Swindoll.  Michael Powell would agree with that statement.  

Anyone who visits the Middle East will eventually find himself walking on the large weathered and cracked paving stones buried hundreds of years ago by Roman work crews.  

A young man who grabbed a watch in the open market and stuffed it in his jeans was arrested and taken before a judge and charged with theft.  "How do you plead?" asked the judge.

In Russia and Slovak countries, when someone is converted, he doesn’t speak of being saved or even born again. 

Two brothers ran a store where they consistently used weights that were too light. 

Charles Spurgeon called him "The Iron Prophet!" Ahab, the king of Israel, called him "the troubler of Israel" (1 Kings 18:17). His contemporaries called him things even a great deal less complimentary.

"Sing to the LORD a new song," says Psalm 96, but more than a few people today would just as soon sing an old song to the Lord. 

Sir Thomas More used to tell about a friend who was an addicted gambler.  Concerned for him and his family, More used to plead with him to stop his gambling and start supporting his family.

We are quick to rejoice when the blessings are flowing from the storeroom of heaven! 

God made you in such a way that you can survive tremendous ordeals--illness, imprisonment, persecution, and privation.  You can live without food and water--far longer than you might think.