The evening is my favorite part of the day. It’s a time to look back, take stock, and reflect on the events of the day, no matter whether they’re good or bad. As I study God’s word, it’s a time for careful thought and examination for thanksgiving, and for prayer (2 Corinthians 13:5; Colossians 3:15; Psalm 55:17 – NKJV).<\/p>\n
Our Lord had a similar practice during His earthly ministry. At the end of a wearying and demanding day, He went up on a mountain by Himself for a few moments of reflection and prayer in the presence of His Father (Matthew 14:23; Mark 6:45-46).<\/p>\n
The value of the quiet presence of our heavenly Father and the careful examination of how we have engaged life on a given day, has great significance. Perhaps this was the goal of the apostle Paul’s challenge for us to redeem the time (Ephesians 5:16 – NKJV) making certain we are making the best use of the time God gives us for living and serving Him.<\/p>\n
As each day winds down to a close, let’s take some time for quiet reflection in God’s presence. In the quietness of the evening, we can get a more accurate perspective of our Christian life and how we are living it.<\/p>\n
Remembering that we will experience a greater reflection of<\/strong> Jesus when we reflect more on<\/strong> Him (Hebrews 12:2 – NASB).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The evening is my favorite part of the day. It’s a time to look back, take stock, and reflect on the events of the day, no matter whether they’re good or bad. As I study God’s word, it’s a time for careful thought and examination for thanksgiving, and for prayer (2 Corinthians 13:5; Colossians 3:15; … Continue reading “Evening Reflections – Bible study”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}