LOVE

Love to God is armour of proof against error. For want of hearts full of love, men have heads full of error; unholy opinions are for want of holy affections. ---- (Thomas Watson).

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. We love because He first loved us. (I John 4:18-19).

A hymn to read, sing, hum, or whistle, to the glory of God: Fountain of Never-Ceasing Grace(Augustus M. Toplady, --1778).

READY

When you are pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen, brush the honey off your nose and spruce yourself up as best you can, so as to look Ready for Anything. (Pooh)

Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come (Matthew 24:42).

Stand firm with the belt of truth...the breastplate of righteousness...your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace...the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God... (Ephesians6:10-23, 14).

A hymn to read, sing, hum, or whistle, to the glory of God: Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending(Charles Wesley, 1758)

LAW & GOSPEL

The law by which God rules us, is as dear to Him as the Gospel by which He saves us. ---- William Secker.

Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. YOU shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. (Deuteronomy 6:4-7).

A hymn to read, sing, hum, or whistle, to the glory of God: Blest Are the Undefiled (Isaac Watts, 1719).

JOY UNDER DURESS

Take a saint, and put him into any condition, and he knows how to rejoice in the Lord. ---- Walter Craddock

For the sake of Christ, then, "I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong (II Corinthians 12:10)

 ...for you received the word in much affliction, with the joy of the Holy Spirit, so that you became an example to all the believers... (I Thessalonians 1:6).

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds; for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness (James 1:6).

But rejoice insofar as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when His glory is revealed (I Peter 4:13).

 

A hymn to read, sing, hum, or whistle, to the glory of God: Be Still My Soul, (Katherina von Schlegel, 1752).

STILL

There are many circumstances in life when to be strong is to sit still (---pgs).

"Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!"(Psalm 46:10)

"Fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the LORD, which He will work for you today. The LORD will fight for you, and you have only to be silent" (Exodus 14:13,14).

A hymn to read, sing, hum, or whistle, to the glory of God: If Thou But Suffer God to Guide Thee(Georg Neumark, 1641).  

GOD'S

God's sovereign love. The whole world is ordered and arranged to match and meet the needs of the people of God. --- J. Alec Motyer

And God placed all things under His feet and appointed Him to be head over everything for the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills everything in every way (Ephesians 1:22-23).

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose. For those God foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those He predestined, He also called; those He called, He also justified; those He justified, He also glorified. What then shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? (Romans 8:28 - 31a).

A hymn to read, sing, hum, or whistle, to the glory of God: Though Troubles Assail Us (John Newton, 1779).

LIGHT

God sometimes leads us through darkness to remind us that He alone is Light.  -- pgs 

 

Again, Jesus spoke unto them saying, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life" (John 8:12).  

 

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet , and a light unto my path (Psalm 119:105).