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Friday, July 11, 2025

Yesterday we visited the Cherry Hills Orchards market and greenhouses. Brooksyne looked for clearance flowers and I moseyed through the colorful market.
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"Walking In The Light"

Personal note: Over the next two weeks we will not be preparing and posting new messages every weekday as we normally try to do. This afternoon my sister Genelle is coming up from Florida. My other brother Pat and his wife Laverne live within two hours drive in Easton, PA and will join us as well over the weekend. The following weekend we will be heading to Wisconsin for a reunion with my Steincross cousins from Mom's side the following week. We are the aging grandchildren who got to know each other as children on a farm in a tiny town in southwest Missouri while  visiting our grandparents, George Washington and Nellie Mae Steincross. We demonstrate the truthfulness of the Scriptural statement, "Generations come and generations go" (Ecclesiastes 1:4). 

Message summary: We want to hear and heed the words of the prophet Isaiah today, "Let us walk in the light of the Lord". How about you?

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"Let us walk in the light of the LORD" (Isaiah 2:5). "I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life" (John 8:12). “Now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light” (Ephesians 5:8).

This coming Sunday I (Stephen) will be teaching our Crossroads Adult Bible Fellowship Class in our church. For the lesson I thought it would be interesting to consider the term "Crossroads" as used in the Bible. The main verse I will be using is, “Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But you said, ‘We will not walk in it’" (Jeremiah 6:16).

Next week in the Daily Encouragement messages we will consider this text but today let's just consider the sad way it ends, a response of the people to God's call to walk in the "good way": "We will not walk in it".  Isn't that the response of so many today, whether verbally spoken or seen in the choices they make?

When I was a pastor a little boy once asked me what I thought about a popular toy at that time. Turns out I was unfamiliar with the toy. The young boy was developing some spiritual discernment and properly seeking to do what honored the Lord so he asked his spiritual leader. I shared with him that we need to be very cautious about any activity that might involve demons and sorcery. He went on to ask me what demons and sorcery were! So that led to another lesson!

Spiritual darkness is pervasive now and is also very popular. Books dealing with the dark side sell very well. Music and the entertainment industry are full of it. Other institutions, such as government, media and education, have rejected God's truth, and we have seen darkness increase.

But we do well to go back to the Bible and heed its counsel. In the Law of Moses this specific prohibition is made, "Do not practice divination or sorcery". If there is any question about a matter the best course is to stay away from it.

We have often referred to Isaiah 5:20 in these Daily Encouragement messages, usually focusing on the first phrase, "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil" which seems to address our own age as understanding of what comprises good and what comprises evil is topsy-turvy.

But the second phrase is equally informative, "Woe to those ... who put darkness for light and light for darkness". Other versions render the passage "who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness" (Amplified), "who think darkness is light and light is darkness" (New Century Version). Is there any question today that so many are exchanging light for darkness?

Let us all hear and heed the words of the prophet Isaiah in our first daily text today, "Let us walk in the light of the Lord".

When we walk with the Lord in the light of His Word,
What a glory He sheds on our way!
While we do His good will, He abides with us still,
And with all who will trust and obey.



Be encouraged today!  Hebrews 3:13


Stephen & Brooksyne Weber

Praying manDaily prayer: Father, You are much like a loving parent who warns his children of danger. You warn us of the dangers that come from the enemy of our soul. Satan disguises himself as good and as light; tragically, the world accommodates such deception. But we must heed the repeated cautions in Scripture such as Paul's warning, "Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ". Our authority and outlook is not based on the views of this topsy-turvy world but on the words of Christ and the inspired writers of Scripture. Keep us faithful in reading, believing and applying it we pray in the name of Jesus. Amen.

See Isaiah 5, Colossians 2:8


Today's Suggested Music and Supplemental Resources

"Trust And Obey"   Watch on YouTube  The Living Stones Quartet  (from India)

Today we share a couple of photos of the Eve's Garden greenhouse we passed along Blue Rock Road yesterday afternoon. That's an interesting name for a greenhouse if your name is Eve!

Eve's Garden
The greenhouse was closed for the season but Brooksyne still snapped a couple of photos from the outside.
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Eve's Garden
Brooksyne sees flowers but I see weathered barnwood.
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