<p><span class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold">For Reading and Meditation:</span><br><span class="italic">     <span class="scriptRef" ref="joh+10:1-18">John 10:1-18</span></span></p><p>I said yesterday that I subscribe to the supervisal inspiration of the Bible. I believe God led the minds and hearts of the writers of Scripture to go to the right sources for information, to come up with the required data, and in the process protected them from exposure to error, deceit, or imposture. He supervised them in their research, in their reporting, and when He spoke directly to them He was there also to make sure that they received clearly the message He wanted to convey. Ian Macpherson puts this truth most powerfully in his book The Faith Once Delivered when he says: "As in the mystery of the Incarnation, God linked Himself to humanity, so in the mystery of the inspiration of Holy Scripture, God made use of human channels, yet He never surrendered His Divine authorship or permitted the Book to become the word of man rather than the word of God." Another writer, H. O. Mackey, put it like this: "Who built St. Paul's Cathedral? So many masons, carpenters, iron-workers, carvers, painters - and then there was Wren. He was not a mason, or a carpenter ... and never laid a stone. What did he do? He did it all. He planned it, inspired it with his thought." Mackey does not intend to dishonor the workmen who toiled hard and long, but simply to make the point that in the final analysis St. Paul's Cathedral is Sir Christopher Wren's masterpiece. Who wrote the Bible? Moses, David, Isaiah, Jeremiah, John, Peter, Paul, and many others. But whose book is it really? It is God's. </p><p class="center-it italic bold mlr40 mtb20">O God, it is the entrance of Your Word that brings light and the neglect of Your Word that brings darkness. Help me to expose myself more and more to that light, so that I may walk through life with a sure and steady tread. In Jesus' Name. Amen.</p><div class="tl-lightgrey mt20 pt20 flexbox-row-wrap jc-around"><div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">AdditionalVerses</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="re+22:12-21">Revelation 22:12-21</span></li><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="de+4:2">Deuteronomy 4:2</span></li><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="de+12:32">Deuteronomy 12:32</span></li><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="pr+30:5-6">Proverbs 30:5-6</span></li></ul></div>

<div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">Questions to Consider</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li>What was the conclusion of the writer of Proverbs?</li><li>What was John's warning?</li></ul></div></div>

Let a little light into your soul every day with this wonderful devotional from English pastor Selwyn Hughes.

Every Day Light with Selwyn Hughes

"... and the Scripture cannot be broken ..." (v. 35) 

<p>JESUS is the first and the last. He began He carries on, and He will complete the great work of our eternal salvation. He was the first object to which we were directed to look, and He will be the last we shall wish to see. He was the first subject we began to learn, and we shall be learning Him to all eternity. He is first with us in every trial and trouble, and will never leave us nor forsake us. He is the foundation on which we build, and He will be for a covering. We should look to Him first in every trouble, and go to Him first with every want. He includes all that is good, great, and glorious. He that hath Jesus hath all things. Let us begin with Jesus, and then go on with Jesus, so shall we end with Jesus, and a blessed ending it will be. He is our great lesson, and we have learned nothing to purpose until we know Him. Oh, to know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, and to be made conformable to His death! Let us endeavor to learn the happy art of looking to Jesus, expecting from Jesus, and glorifying Jesus as our ALPHA and OMEGA from day to day.</p><p class="mlr40 italic">Christ is my hope, my strength, my guide,<br> For me He groan'd, and bled, and died;<br> Christ is the source of all my bliss,<br> My wisdom, and my righteousness:<br> My Saviour, Brother, faithful Friend,<br> Oh Him alone I now depend.</p>

Written by James Smith for his own flock around 1840, but such was the demand that by 1846 over thirty thousand copies where in circulation.

The Believer's Daily Remembrancer

"I am Alpha and Omega" Revelation 22:13

<p>With this blessing resting over us, shall we not hasten now under its bright wings? It will be a blessed shelter for us! A traveler plodded on, weary and hungry, not knowing where to turn to find food and rest. A storm broke upon him, and he fled under a wide-spreading tree for shelter. Here he found not only <span class="italic ">refuge </span>from the storm - but <span class="italic ">food </span>also, for the tree gave him of its fruits to eat; and<span class="italic "> rest, </span>too, for his weariness. Just so, the weary people who will flee under this blessing, shall find shelter, rest and bread!</p>

A unique type of devotional from the writings of James Russell Miller, published between 1908 and 1913.

Devotional Hours Within the Bible

Revelation 22:11-21

The Great Invitation

<p><span class="bible-text "> <sup class="verse-num ">13 </sup><woj>I am the Alpha and the Omega,   the First and the Last,   the Beginning and the End.  </woj> </span></p>

<woj>I am the Alpha and the Omega,<cr>1</cr>  the First and the Last,<cr>2</cr>  the Beginning and the End.<cr>3</cr> </woj>

Revelation 22:13

 13 I am the Alpha and the Omega,   the First and the Last,   the Beginning and the End.  

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 I am the Alpha and the Omega,  the First and the Last,  the Beginning and the End. 

<p><span class="bible-text "><woj>I am the Alpha and the Omega,   the First and the Last,   the Beginning and the End.  </woj> </span></p>

 I am the Alpha and the Omega,   the First and the Last,   the Beginning and the End.  

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Revelation 22:13 NIV

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