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Mark 16:1-8 reminds weary hearts that God is near and grace meets us here.
John 17:20-26 names what we avoid: neutrality in injustice is still a choice—today, not someday.
Mark 16:1-8 confronts comfortable faith—obedience delayed is obedience denied.
Psalm 15 Luke 16:1-13, Christ stands at the center: promise fulfilled, mercy embodied, kingdom revealed—today, not someday.
Haggai 1:15b-2:9 19:1-10 invites us to look again at Christ until fear loosens its grip—today, not someday.
Ephesians 1:15-23 1:4-10 insists that faith means following Jesus, even when it costs—today, not someday.
Malachi 3: By prevenient grace, it meets us gently—invites a real response that grows into holy love.
Psalm 72:1-7, 10-14 66:1-12 is a steady hand on the shoulder: God is near, and you are not alone in obedience.
In 1 Timothy 2:1-7, we remember: trouble can’t cancel God’s promises—today, not someday.
Isaiah 64:1-9 14:25-33 magnifies sovereign grace—God saves, sustains, and secures His people for His glory—today, not someday.
Numbers 6:22-27 14 gives Law and Gospel: God exposes our need, then gives Christ as our righteousness.
In 1 Kings 19:1-4, 8-15a, orthodoxy becomes obedience—truth received becomes truth lived—today, not someday.
1 Kings 18: Within the deposit of faith, it meets us gently—draws us into grace through the Church’s sacramental life.
The latter we enjoy now through faith and hope; but the former is present with us, the certain consequence and necessary attendant upon a mind truly virtuous and religious.
Love proves far more effective than logic in attaining the best ends.
Yet Christians must judge timidity differently than the world does.
Propriety demands three conditions: first, that things be done in their proper time; second, that they be kept to their proper use; third, that they be put in their proper place.
Consider two grave consequences: First, pride subjects a man to the imputation of folly.
Exell observes that science itself demonstrates this principle: the passions of grief, disappointment, anger, jealousy, and revenge derange the bodily system in proportion to their strength, while pleasurable emotions rooted in moral virtue give buoyancy and vigor to the body.
The ruined city in Solomon's metaphor depicts precisely this condition.
The *peripateo* (walking) denotes chosen motion—not forced proximity, but intentional association.
One Victorian writer imagined hours passing like solemn virgins in silent procession, their faces veiled, carrying caskets filled with treasures: brilliant diadems, ripe fruits, faded flowers.
Exell notes the critical distinction: it is not the place itself, but the way to it.
While all persons possess some sense of duty rooted deeply in the human heart, the constant strife between inclination and principle generates contradiction in conduct.