DAY 95 Read Judges 9 and 10.
Today's reading: Shakespare has Mark Antony say of Julius Caesar, "The evil that men do lives after them." This was certainly true of Gideon. The evil he introduced into Israel bore fruit in the foul deeds of Abimelech and the men of Shechem.
Memory gem: "Evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the Lord, they shall inherit the earth" (Psalm 37:9).
Thought for today:
If we reject, ignore, or forget the divine law, we must receive the consequences. As men sow, they shall reap--always. It is the law of life.
An old but true story is told about the influence a teacher has over a child. One day a Sunday School meeting was in progress. A ragged man was noticed sitting in a pew in the rear. Finally, at the testimony meeting, he rose and said:
"Look at me; I am a lost man. If the officers of the law knew where I was, they would be after me. I was one of five boys who attended Sunday School here, and our teacher, to make it more interesting for us in Sunday School, taught us to play cards. After a while, with us, it was more cards and less Bible, and finally, all cards and no Bible; and soon we had a system of our own, and went to gambling. We went from that to worse and at last committed crimes to make money. Two of the boys are in prison now, one was executed, and two of us are fugitives from justice. The police would be here for me if they knew I was here!"
He paused a moment, overcome by deep emotion, and added: "My father was the minister in this church, and our family sat in this very pew."
He left the church and was gone. As he left the building, a tall woman dressed in black arose in the front row and cried, "I was that boy's teacher!" And she fell to the floor unconscious. What an influence a sheep has on the lambs!
Today's reading: Shakespare has Mark Antony say of Julius Caesar, "The evil that men do lives after them." This was certainly true of Gideon. The evil he introduced into Israel bore fruit in the foul deeds of Abimelech and the men of Shechem.
Memory gem: "Evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the Lord, they shall inherit the earth" (Psalm 37:9).
Thought for today:
If we reject, ignore, or forget the divine law, we must receive the consequences. As men sow, they shall reap--always. It is the law of life.
An old but true story is told about the influence a teacher has over a child. One day a Sunday School meeting was in progress. A ragged man was noticed sitting in a pew in the rear. Finally, at the testimony meeting, he rose and said:
"Look at me; I am a lost man. If the officers of the law knew where I was, they would be after me. I was one of five boys who attended Sunday School here, and our teacher, to make it more interesting for us in Sunday School, taught us to play cards. After a while, with us, it was more cards and less Bible, and finally, all cards and no Bible; and soon we had a system of our own, and went to gambling. We went from that to worse and at last committed crimes to make money. Two of the boys are in prison now, one was executed, and two of us are fugitives from justice. The police would be here for me if they knew I was here!"
He paused a moment, overcome by deep emotion, and added: "My father was the minister in this church, and our family sat in this very pew."
He left the church and was gone. As he left the building, a tall woman dressed in black arose in the front row and cried, "I was that boy's teacher!" And she fell to the floor unconscious. What an influence a sheep has on the lambs!
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