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Old Paths Musings is a daily devotional that includes Bible verse, quotes from Christian authors and up to date commentary on the scripture. The primary focus is to help Christians with their walk with God.

Coincidences Or Bad Decisions

Proverbs 16:33 – The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord. Coincidences or bad decisions. A coincidence is a chance event. A decision is a free will choice. Both types of events effect our lives.  Rolling a dice or casting a lot is similar to a coincidence.…

The Contented Man

1 Timothy 6:6 – But godliness with contentment is great gain. “A proud man is never contented; he thinks so highly of himself that small blessings are disdained by him, and under small crosses he is impatient. The humble spirit is the contented spirit; if his cross be light, he reckons it in the inventory…

The Joy of Bitterness

Proverbs 14:10 – The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy. The joy of bitterness. You don’t normally think of it that way but without trials we would not seek the joy of Lord.  This verse kind of personifies the heart.  It gives it chacteristics and feeling.  The person…

Blot It Out

Isaiah 43:25 – I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins. Psalms 103:12 – As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. 1 Peter 4:8 – And above all things have fervent charity…

Fathers Do Not Discourage Your Children

Ephesians 6:4 – And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. Colossians 3:21 – Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged. Provoke – To make angry; to offend; to incense; to enrage. Discourage – To extinguish the courage of;…

The Earth Languisheth

Isaiah 24:4-6 – The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.  The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.  Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that…

How to Stay Content

Philippians 4:11 – Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. Hebrews 13:5 – Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. If…

Abounding Love

Philippians 1:9-11 – And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment; That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ; Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ,…

Keep Out Private Property

1 Corinthians 6:19 – What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? Remember that God is your Lord or Owner: and see that you make an absolute resignation of yourselves, and all that you…

Henceforth

2 Corinthians 5:15 – And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again. Ephesians 4:14 – That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight…

The Works of the Flesh

Galatians 5:19-21 – Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such…