Song for today: We Three Kings of Orient Are
Born In Bethlehem and
Son of God

Today’s country: Bosnia and Herzegovina

Desire without knowledge is not good, and whoever makes haste with his feet misses his way.
When a man’s folly brings his way to ruin, his heart rages against the Lord.
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Whoever gets sense loves his own soul; he who keeps understanding will discover good.
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Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.
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House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.
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Discipline your son, for there is hope; do not set your heart on putting him to death.
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Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.
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The fear of the Lord leads to life, and whoever has it rests satisfied;
he will not be visited by harm.
from Proverbs 19

I watched when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals,
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I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the witness they had borne. They cried out with a loud voice, “O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before you will judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?” Then they were each given a white robe and told to rest a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brothers should be complete, who were to be killed as they themselves had been.

I saw another angel ascending from the rising of the sun, with the seal of the living God, and he called with a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm earth and sea, saying, “Do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees, until we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.” And I heard the number of the sealed, 144,000, sealed from every tribe of the sons of Israel:
from Revelation 6

I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!” And all the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, saying, “Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever! Amen.”
Then one of the elders addressed me, saying, “Who are these, clothed in white robes, and from where have they come?” I said to him, “Sir, you know.” And he said to me, “These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
“Therefore they are before the throne of God,
and serve him day and night in his temple;
and he who sits on the throne will shelter them with his presence.
They shall hunger no more, neither thirst anymore;
the sun shall not strike them,
nor any scorching heat.
For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd,
and he will guide them to springs of living water,
and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”
from Revelation 7