Evening, March 25
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Those who love your instructions have great peace
        and do not stumble.
Insight
Modern society longs for peace of mind. Here is clear-cut instruction on how to attain this: if we love God and obey his laws, we will have “great peace.”
Challenge
Trust in God, who alone stands above the pressures of daily life and gives us full assurance.
John 3:13  The Son of man.

How constantly our Master used the title, the "Son of man!" If he had chosen, he might always have spoken of himself as the Son of God, the Everlasting Father, the Wonderful, the Counsellor, the Prince of Peace; but behold the lowliness of Jesus! He prefers to call himself the Son of man. Let us learn a lesson of humility from our Saviour; let us never court great titles nor proud degrees. There is here, however, a far sweeter thought. Jesus loved manhood so much, that he delighted to honor it; and since it is a high honor, and indeed, the greatest dignity of manhood, that Jesus is the Son of man, he is wont to display this name, that he may as it were hang royal stars upon the breast of manhood, and show forth the love of God to Abraham's seed. Son of man--whenever he said that word, he shed a halo round the head of Adam's children. Yet there is perhaps a more precious thought still. Jesus Christ called himself the Son of man to express his oneness and sympathy with his people. He thus reminds us that he is the one whom we may approach without fear. As a man, we may take to him all our griefs and troubles, for he knows them by experience; in that he himself hath suffered as the "Son of man," he is able to succor and comfort us. All hail, thou blessed Jesus! inasmuch as thou art evermore using the sweet name which acknowledges that thou art a brother and a near kinsman, it is to us a dear token of thy grace, thy humility, thy love.

"Oh see how Jesus trusts himself

Unto our childish love,

As though by his free ways with us

Our earnestness to prove!

His sacred name a common word

On earth he loves to hear;

There is no majesty in him

Which love may not come near."


Luke 5:5  Simon answered and said, "Master, we worked hard all night and caught nothing, but I will do as You say and let down the nets."

Matthew 28:18-20  And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. • "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, • teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age."

Matthew 13:47  "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a dragnet cast into the sea, and gathering fish of every kind;

1 Corinthians 9:16,22  For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast of, for I am under compulsion; for woe is me if I do not preach the gospel. • To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak; I have become all things to all men, so that I may by all means save some.

Galatians 6:9  Let us not lose heart in doing good, for in due time we will reap if we do not grow weary.

Isaiah 55:11  So will My word be which goes forth from My mouth; It will not return to Me empty, Without accomplishing what I desire, And without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.

1 Corinthians 3:7  So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but God who causes the growth.

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