"Treasure"

Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure; Where your treasure is, there is your heart; Where your heart is, there is your happiness. 

[Augustine]

Matthew 6:19-21 ... Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

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Feel My Bleeding Heart

What a miracle of love it is that God should love us,  when there was nothing lovely in us. We were rather  fit to be loathed than loved! We had something in us  to provoke God's fury but nothing to excite His love.

What love, passing understanding, was it that Christ should die for sinners! Augustine says, "The cross is a  pulpit and the lesson Christ preached on it is LOVE."

Oh the wondrous love of a dying Savior! I think I hear  Christ say to us, "Put your hand into the wound in  My side. Feel My bleeding heart. See if I do not  love you! And will you not bestow your love upon Me?  Will you love the world more than Me? Did the world  appease the wrath of God for you? Have I not done  all this? And will you not love Me?"

[Thomas Watson]

1 John 3:1... Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

1 John 4:19 ... We love him, because he first loved us.

Ephesians 3:19 ... And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.❤

Rest in Jesus

Our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee, Oh Lord.

[Augustine]

Exodus 33:14 ... And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.

Isaiah 32:18 ... And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;

Matthew 11:28 ... Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. ❤

Trust God

Trust the past to God’s mercy, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.

[Augustine]

Psalm 55:16 ... As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me.

Proverbs 3:5-6 ... Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.  In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

1 Peter 5:7 ... Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you. ❤

Above All

Christ is not valued at all unless He is valued above all.

[Augustine]

John 3:30 ... He must increase, but I must decrease.

Matthew 16:25-4-25 ... Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.

1 Chronicles 16:25 ... For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised: he also is to be feared above all gods.

Matthew 6:33 ... But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Philippians 2:9-11 ... Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.❤

Touching Jesus

Few are they who by faith touch Him; multitudes are they who throng about Him.

[Augustine]

Luke 8:42-44 ... For he had one only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she lay a dying. But as he went the people thronged him. And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any, Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched.

Mark 5:30-34 ... And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes? And his disciples said unto him, Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me? And he looked round about to see her that had done this thing. But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth. And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague. ❤

Be Holy

Breath in me, O Holy Spirit, that my thoughts may all be holy.

Act in me, O Holy Spirit, that my work, too, may be holy.

Draw my heart, O Holy Spirit, that I love but what is holy.

Strengthen me, O Holy Spirit, to defend all that is holy.

Guard me, then, O Holy Spirit, that I always may be holy.

[Augustine]

Romans 11:16 ... For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.

Ephesians 5:15-16 ... See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

1 Peter 1:16 ... Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy. 🕊

Enlighten Us

O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.

[Augustine]

Job 3:20 ... Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;

Psalm 18:28 ... For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.

Psalm 36:9 ... For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.

John 8:12 ... Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. ♥