TODAY'S PROVERBS FROM THE LIVING BIBLE

"When you help the poor you are lending to the Lord--& He pays wonderful interest on your loan!" (19:17)

"Man proposes,but God disposes." (19:21)

VISION

"So we need to develop the ability to see the consequences of our actions--to see past the immediate to the ultimate."  D. Stuart Briscoe, Men's Devotional Bible

SIN

"Sin also affects our broken & fallen relationship with God. Sin is also about idolatry, that is, holding ourselves or things higher than God. In other words, when we sin, we are playing God. Therefore, when the devil approached Eve in the garden, he said, 'You can be like God.' And Eve began to play 'God' as she saw the tree as good for food, pleasant to the eyes & able to make one wise. The devil does not simply seek to make you do bad & immoral things; he also wants you to despair in your sin, fall into selfishness & pride, & not trust in God above all things He wants you to forget the Gospel of the forgiveness sins."  Rev. John Dreyer, The Lutheran Witness

AN EASTER HYMN *

* Christ the Lord Is Risen Today, LW #142, Sts. 1-4

"'Christ the Lord is ris'n today!' All on earth with angels say; Raise your joys & triumphs high; Sing, he heav'ns; & earth repay.

"Love's redeeming work is done, Fought the fight, the battle won; Lo! Our sun's eclipse is o'er. Lo! He sets in blood no more.

"Vain the stone, the watch the seal; Christ has burst the gates of hell. Death in vain forbids His rise; Christ has opened paradise.

"Lives again our glorious King! Where, O death, is now they sting? Once He died our souls to save; Where thy victory, O grave?"