Over the last twenty-eight years our devotional publication has gone through many changes. The first issue, in May of 1996, was a simple, one-page, text-only devotional published weekly via e-mail to subscribers. It is now full-color, multi-page, and published monthly—on the 15th—at our web site. It is available in three formats: two PDFs, one in portrait, for printing, and one in landscape, for easier viewing on screen.
November 2024 Issue
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There is nothing else left, nothing that will satisfy our longing, except to be broken. So before the cross of Christ, before the open tomb, before the Father’s throne we remove the crown that sits atop our head—that glorious crown that represents every gift we have ever received from above, every talent instilled, every act we have ever performed—and we carefully place it at His feet. As part of our worship we agree with the Lord that He owns us completely. We are not our own. We are His to use as He pleases.
We will now spend the remainder of our days living for Him. Our talents belong to Him. Our will has been subjected to His. Our desires will be aligned with His. Everything of our lives will be subsumed in His.
And thus we will spend the rest of our lives thanks-living.
The two-fold purpose of Reflections by the Pond is to, first of all, bring glory and honor to God the Father and His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, and then to build up believers into a higher—and deeper—level of sanctification.
And by His grace we will.
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