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>  Heartlight Daily Devotional  Thursday, January 5, 2006
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>Stop doing wrong, learn to do right! Seek justice, encourage the 
>oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless.
>--Isaiah 1:16-17
>New International Version
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>THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY'S VERSE...
>Do you find it easy to replace service to those in need with 
>religious rituals? I know I do! But God wants us to not get so 
>caught up in talking about him and celebrating his deeds, that we 
>forget we're supposed to care for others like he does. Whether it is 
>Jesus defining his ministry in Luke 4:18-19 or James talking about 
>the kind of piety that pleases God (1:26-27), we must realize true 
>faith is treating others as God would. Today's verse defines what 
>God does and asks us to live the same.
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>MY PRAYER...
>O Great God of all comfort, open my eyes today to see those who need 
>your love and give me the attentiveness, time, and compassion to 
>serve them. May Jesus' work be seen in my life today. Amen.
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The LORD your God in your midst,
The Mighty One, will save;
He will rejoice over you with gladness,
He will quiet you with His love,
He will rejoice over you with singing.
         ~ Zephaniah 3:17 (NKJV)