Where the Real News is the Good News

I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;
    I will counsel you with my loving eye on you.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

 For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword,it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. 

 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.

 

But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,

Like the crackling of thorns under the pot, so is the laughter of fools. This too is meaningless.

And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus.

Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.

Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.

You make known to me the path of life;
    you will fill me with joy in your presence,
    with eternal pleasures at your right hand.

Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.”

Ah, Sovereign Lord, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too hard for you.

Now, our God, we give you thanks,
    and praise your glorious name.

 I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.

A cheerful heart is good medicine,
    but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—

Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; 

Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,