Quote of the Day

When I see a bird that looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, has webbed feet like a duck, paddles in the water like a duck, and prefers the company of ducks, it is hard for me to resist the conclusion that it must be a duck! “Birds of a feather flock together” and where you feel at home is most likely where you belong. When Peter was released from jail, he headed for a prayer meeting. We gravitate to what lures us most and eventually we show up where we belong. “We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren” (I John 3:14). If we don’t love the brethren, we belong to the other crowd.

Devotion of the Day

God’s Finished Product

The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me.
Psalm 138:8

I have heard of a little boy whose sailor father was coming home to see him. The youngster worked the afternoon long trying to carve a ship model from a block of wood. He fell asleep, with very little success achieved for all his whittling. That night his father came, removed the block of wood and put in its place a real wooden ship exquisitely carved and rigged or perfection.

Your life and mine often bears poor resemblance to the Perfect Model. At our best we are like the carving of the little boy. But one day we shall awake in His likeness and see Him as He is. And we shall find that we bear the image of the heavenly. He who has begun a good work in us in regeneration will perform it in sanctification until the day of Jesus Christ in glorification. We were predestinated to be conformed to the image of God’s Son, and God will make of us a finished product and a perfect creation.

It will be great to awaken in the morning and find that we are just like Jesus!

Cheer up, my brother. He will perfect that which concerneth you!