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Daily readings for 08/02/2025: To Be Like Jesus — Day 200 of 350

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To Be Like Jesus — Day 200 of 350 God's Wisdom and Love Revealed in Nature, August 3 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” Genesis 1:28 , NKJV. The holy pair looked upon nature as a picture of unsurpassed loveliness. The brown earth was clothed with a carpet of living green, diversified with an endless variety of self-propagating, self-perpetuating flowers. Shrubs, fl...

Daily readings for 08/01/2025: To Be Like Jesus — Day 199 of 350

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To Be Like Jesus — Day 199 of 350 All Nature Entrusted to Adam and Eve, August 2 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” Genesis 1:26 , NKJV. While they remained true to God, Adam and his companion were to bear rule over the earth. Unlimited control was given them over every living thing. The lion and the lamb sported peacefully around them or lay down...

Daily readings for 07/31/2025: To Be Like Jesus — Day 198 of 350

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To Be Like Jesus — Day 198 of 350 August—Relating to the Natural World Happiness to Be Found in Natural Surroundings, August 1 And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas. And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:10 , NKJV. The father and the Son engaged in the mighty, wondrous work they had contemplated, of creating the world. The earth came forth from the hand of the Creator exceedingly beautiful. There were mountains and hills and plains; and interspersed among them were rivers and other bodies of water. The e...

Daily readings for 07/30/2025: To Be Like Jesus — Day 197 of 350

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To Be Like Jesus — Day 197 of 350 Be Used by the Spirit in Christ's Service, July 31 Great and marvelous are Your works, Lord God Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the saints! Who shall not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy. For all nations shall come and worship before You. Revelation 15:3, 4 , NKJV. God will move upon those in humble positions to declare the message of present truth. Many such will be seen hastening hither and thither, constrained by the Spirit of God to give the light to those in darkness. The tru...

Daily readings for 07/29/2025: To Be Like Jesus — Day 196 of 350

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To Be Like Jesus — Day 196 of 350 Study Christ's Words, Not Human Opinions, July 30 For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. John 1:17 , NKJV. Jesus was the light of the world. He came forth from God with a message of hope and salvation to the fallen children of Adam. If men and women would but receive Him as their personal Savior, He promised to restore to them the image of God, and to redeem all that had been lost through sin. He presented to human beings the truth, without one thread of interwoven error. When He tau...

Daily readings for 07/28/2025: To Be Like Jesus — Day 195 of 350

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To Be Like Jesus — Day 195 of 350 Take Time for Prayer and the Word, July 29 These are the ones sown among thorns; they are the ones who hear the word, and the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful. Mark 4:18, 19 , NKJV. Christ specified the things that are dangerous to the soul. As recorded by Mark, He mentions the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things. Luke specifies the cares, riches, and pleasures of this life. These are wh...

Daily readings for 07/27/2025: To Be Like Jesus — Day 194 of 350

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To Be Like Jesus — Day 194 of 350 We Should Give Hope to the Fallen, July 28 And to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to clothe yourselves with the new self, created according to the likeness of God, in true righteousness and holiness. Ephesians 4:23, 24 , NRSV. Christ was a faithful reprover. Never lived there another who so hated evil; never another whose denunciation of it was so fearless. To all things untrue and base His very presence was a rebuke. In the light of His purity, people saw themselves unclean, their life's aims mean and false. Yet He...