The July 2025 Refreshing Daily in God’s Word will be the last issue of the devotional. Pastor Michael Rouse retired June 29, 2025. At the present time, Mountain View Baptist Church does not have anyone to continue this ministry.
We appreciate all the support and prayers that you have given for this ministry since 2007 when it first began. We pray the devotionals have been a blessing and have brought you closer in your walk with the Lord.
In the future, the Lord may allow the devotional to return. In the meantime, we are asking for your prayers for the man that God chooses for our church.
Thank you and God bless you!
A news dispatch from British Columbia tells of a disastrous fire in an Indian village that destroyed twenty-one buildings and left fifty homeless. The odd thing is that the fire was started by the rays of the sun reflected against the wooden side of a house by a fragment of a broken mirror. Doubtless no one even noticed the mirror or was aware when the first little curl of smoke gave an initial warning of the coming conflagration.
The Bible compares the tongue to fire, reminding us that a careless word tossed here or there can ignite the whole “course of nature.” In James 3:6 we read, “And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue...it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature.” We would not knowingly focus a mirror onto some highly combustible material, nor would we carelessly throw lighted matches into a dry wheat field. But how often have we, in a moment of weakness made some remark which helped us none and which brought searing burns of pain to others?
One of the biggest lies ever told is found in the saying, “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.”
What to do:
✞Only speak to others as you would have them speak to or about you.
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