My Daily Pause

Author: Butch Adams

  • Proverbs 20:27 – Lamp of God

    The Lord looks deep inside people and searches through their thoughts. – Proverbs 20:27 NCV

    The spirit of man is the lamp of Jehovah, Searching all his innermost parts. – Proverbs 20:27 ASV

    I include the NCV rendering of this verse for consistency with the rest of the articles on this blog, but the ASV is closer to the original language. The Spirit read here is the same “breath of life” given to Adam in Genesis 2:7. It is our soul, our consciousness, the intrinsic knowledge that God is in us.

    Philosophers from the beginning have reasoned correctly that there is a God – even before they were introduced to Him. Those who have reasoned against God’s existence were never truly happy or settled in this life. That is our spirit at work.

  • Proverbs 19:14 – My Wife

    Proverbs 19:14 – My Wife

    Houses and wealth are inherited from parents, but a wise wife is a gift from the Lord. – Proverbs 19:14 NCV

    The wife I was blessed with could have only come from God.

  • Proverbs 15:14 – Fertile Fields

    Proverbs 15:14 – Fertile Fields

    People with understanding want more knowledge, but fools just want more foolishness. – Proverbs 15:14 NCV

    This Proverb reminds me of the idea of the mind being like a fertile field that will return anything you plant in it. If you plant corn you get corn, if you plant nightshade, you get a deadly poison. You can’t get something from the harvest you did not plant. You cannot harvest understanding from feeding the mind the foolishness we have access to today.

  • 5 Adverbs to Describe How We Should Give

    Liberally – Luke 6:38

    Sacrificially – Hebrews 13:16

    Cheerfully – 2 Corinthians 9:7

    Purposefully – 2 Corinthians 9:7

    Secretly – Matthew 6:3-4

  • 5 Presidential Quotes About the Bible

    1. GEORGE WASHINGTON: It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible…. He is worse than an infidel who does not read his Bible and acknowledge his obligation to God.
    2. JOHN ADAMS: The Bible is the best Book in the world.
    3. THOMAS JEFFERSON: I have always said and always will say that the studious perusal of the Sacred Volume will make better citizens, better fathers, better husbands…. The Bible makes the best people in the world.
    4. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS: My custom is to read four or five chapters of the Bible every morning immediately after rising…. It seems to me the most suitable manner of beginning the day…. It is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue.
    5. ABRAHAM LINCOLN: I am profitably engaged in reading the Bible. Take all of this Book upon reason that you can, and the balance by faith and you will live and die a better man.

  • Do “Things” Make Happiness?

    Today I’ll simply point to an article by Dr Thomas Stanley (The Millionaire Next Door) describing how one millionaire family lives.

    http://www.thomasjstanley.com/blog-articles/131/A_Millionaire_Profile.html

    I don’t know their religious backgrounds but they seem to bring us a living example of “Godliness with contentment is great gain.”  1 Timothy 6:6