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Old Paths Musings (Page 38)

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.

Proud Men Become Hereticks

This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men. But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.…

Revival is the Only Answer to America’s Problems

Psalms 37:7 – Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass. 2 Corinthians 11:26 – In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in…

He Laid Down His Life

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Jn 15:13 We must remember that Christ went to the cross voluntarily. No one forced him. He laid down his life. He gave his hands to the Roman soldiers willingly to be nailed. It was likely the first…

Living By Faith – Getting the Details Right

Then Manoah intreated the Lord, and said, O my Lord, let the man of God which thou didst send come again unto us, and teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born. Judges 13:8 Manoah was a man of God. He was concerned about doing what it took to raise…

Friend of God

Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God. Deut 7:9 A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. Prov 17:17 And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of…

Self-Confidence or God-Confidence

Zechariah 4:6 – … Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts. Ephesians 6:10 – Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Nothing betrays so much weakness of understanding as not to perceive the misery of man without God. Nothing…

Right Joy

Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice. Phil 4:4 See that you first settle the peace of your souls upon solid grounds, and get such evidences of your special interest in Christ and heaven, as will rationally warrant you to rejoice; and then make it the business of your lives to rejoice…

Zeal Without Knowledge

Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness…

Pluto, Pleiades and Planets

Genesis 1:6 – And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. Job 9:9 – Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south. Isaiah 40:22 – It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth,…

Human Nature – The Enemy of God

Ephesians 2:3 – Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. Nature would do anything to be saved, rather than go to Christ, or close…

Patient Possession of Your Soul

Luke 21:19 – In your patience possess ye your souls. When the Lord said “in your patience possess ye your souls”, he was trying to say you are going to go through some rough times in the great tribulation but you can still maintain walk with me. America might be going down the tubes fast. …

The Mind and Modern Psychology

Isaiah 26:3 – Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary, the definition of psychology is “the science of mind and behavior.” The Webster’s 1828 Dictionary defines psychology a little differently as “A discourse or treatise on the human soul;…

Titanic Going Down – Are You Lost or Saved

John 3:18 – He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. When the great oceanliner, the Titanic, went down in 1912 two lists were posted in the ship’s home offices. One list…

Growth in Distress

Psalms 4:1 – Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer. Psalms 23:4 – Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and…