Nuggets from the Scriptures is a collection of inspired and inspirational, brief meditations and precious insights gathered by Berenice M. Shotwell.
In this slender volume, the popular author and Bible teacher shares a few insights gleaned from her lifelong study of the Bible—a few of the rewards of teaching its treasures for over 50 years. Nuggets from the Scriptures is written in a graceful, simple, straightforward style. These little essays challenge us to look at our lives with a new perspective and encourage us to brighten and clarify the spritual experience of our daily lives.
As Mrs. Shotwell said, "I offer here some of the nuggets I have found in familiar scriptural passages and narratives in the hope that they will open up fresh viewpoints and lead to practical application. . . . When you look day by day to God for guidance in your own life journey, you become more aware of His divine presence."
The volume is also available for purchase, and you will find this beautifully bound little book to be an ideal, thoughtful gift, as well as one you will want to use yourself in your daily life.
Here is a sample:
A great truth of the Bible that underlies all biblical doctrine from Genesis to Revelation is that God is Life and the life of man. Jesus taught, “I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly” (Jn. 10:10).
Death held no power nor reality in Christ Jesus' thought, a truth seen in the instances of raising from the dead that he accomplished during his ministry–that of the widow's son at Nain, of Jairus' daughter, of Lazarus of Bethany, and lastly of himself.
The following statement from Samuel Longefellow, which echoes this truth of eternal Life, has been in my possession for some time. It was written on the day of the passing on of his beloved wife. It is so precious an affirmation of faith that I would like to share it with you.
“There is but one word to be spoken today and that word is Life, eternal Life: Life surviving all changes; Life persisting through all that seems to overwhelm it; Life victorious over death; Life that makes real death impossible to our thoughts.”
May this strong uplifting conviction of the continuity of Life strengthen and inspire you sometime and somewhere.