We continue this remarkable series of the young writer's selections of their most beautiful verses of the bible. It came out of a secular article of the most beautiful literary sentences. Today...
Rosanne Menacho
Sabrina Meyer
Rachel Bartlett
Rosie Timmins
Rosanne Menacho - Melbourne
Revelation chapter 22, verse 2 'The Tree of Life was planted on each side of the River, producing twelve kinds of fruit, a ripe fruit each month. The leaves of the Tree are for healing the nations.'
Psalm chapter 37, verse 4 'Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.' (NIV)
Proverbs chapter 3, verse 5 'Trust God from the bottom of your heart; don't try to figure out everything on your own.' (MSG)
Proverbs chapter 19, verse 20 'Listen to advice and accept discipline, and at the end you will be counted among the wise.' (NIV)
Matthew chapter 5, verse 14 'Here's another way to put it: You're here to be light, bringing out the God-colours in the world. God is not a secret to be kept. We're going public with this, as public as a city on a hill.' (MSG)
Song of songs chapter 1, verse 11 'We will enhance your beauty, encircling you with our golden reins of love. You will be marked with our redeeming grace.' (TPT)
Ecclesiastes chapter 3, verse 11 '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.' (NIV)
Sabrina Meyer - Christchurch
Jonah 2:2 - He said: "In my distress I called to the Lord, and He answered me. From the depths of the grave I called for help, and You listened to my cry.
Hosea 11:8-9 - How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I treat you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is changed within me; all my compassion is aroused. I will not carry out my fierce anger, nor will I turn and devastate Ephraim. For I am God, and not man – the Holy One among you. I will not come in wrath.
Revelation 3:8 - "I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name."
Matthew 14:30-31 - But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and, beginning to sink, cried out, "Lord, save me!" Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him. "You of little faith," he said, "why did you doubt?"
Isaiah 41:9 - I took you from the ends of the earth, from its farthest corners I called you. I said, "You are my servant"; I have chosen you and have not rejected you.
Isaiah 38:17 - Surely I was for my benefit that I suffered such anguish. In Your love You kept me from the pit of destruction; You have put all my sins behind Your back.
Proverbs 15:3 - The eyes of the Lord are everywhere, keeping watch on the wicked and the good.
Rachel Bartlett - Christchurch
Exodus 34:6 The LORD passed before him and proclaimed, "The LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness..."
Philippians 2: 6 And (Jesus) being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
Philippians 4:1 Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the fruit that increases to your credit.
Romans 8:13 For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you mortify the deeds of the body, you will live.
Ephesians 4:15 Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,
Psalm 84:10 - For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness.
1 John 3:20 for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything.
Rosie Timmins - Melbourne
Ruth 1:16 But Ruth said, "Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God.
Esther 4:16 "...Then I will go to the king, though it is against the law, and if I perish, I perish."
Psalm 18:2 The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
Proverbs 3: 5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
Daniel 12: 3 And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky above; and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.
Romans 5:3 .. but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope
1 Peter 3:3-4 Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewellery, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious.
One of Mark Tronson's most beautiful verses of the bible is Amos 5 verse 7 'For those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness down to the earth.' Amos 4 and 5 highlights injustices of the day. Those whose hobby horse seeing injustice in every nook and cranny howling political correctness have missed the point as that is a different kind of injustice. The focus of Amos is 'righteousness' and 'justice'.
Dr Mark Tronson is a Baptist minister (retired) who served as the Australian cricket team chaplain for 17 years (2000 ret) and established Life After Cricket in 2001. He was recognised by the Olympic Ministry Medal in 2009 presented by Carl Lewis Olympian of the Century. He mentors young writers and has written 24 books, and enjoys writing. He is married to Delma, with four adult children and grand-children. Dr Tronson writes a daily article for Christian Today Australia (since 2008) and in November 2016 established Christian Today New Zealand.
Mark Tronson's archive of articles can be viewed at http://www.pressserviceinternational.org/mark-tronson.html