What if you can’t muster the faith? Ask, like the father who cried to Jesus, “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!” (Mark 9:24). And remember that He will carry you “all the way.”
Dr. Ray Pritchard says, “There are questions for which answers are hidden in the mind and heart of a loving God. All we can say is this:
God has so designed the moral universe that, as the Bible says, the rain falls on the just and the unjust.
“We live in a fallen world, a world that’s distorted by sin, and ever since sin entered the human race in the Garden of Eden there has been sin, sickness, pain, suffering, and death. So I don’t think anyone will be able to know why one child gets cancer, why one marriage breaks up, why one person loses his job and another one is promoted. Sometimes we’ll come up with superficial answers, but truly I’ve discovered that the deeper and more heartrending the question, the harder it is to come up with an answer on a human level.”
While God does not always give answers to your questions, He always gives Himself. You can focus your attention instead on the faithfulness of God, His comfort, and His promise to work all things together for good (Romans 8:28). You can trust Him when you do not have all the answers.
Bill Dunn & Kathy Leonard
Our high and privileged calling is to do the will of God in the power of God for the glory of God.
~J.I. Packer~
If Adam knew God as a beloved Father,
if Eve knew Him as the original Homemaker,
if Noah knew Him as the Refuge from the storm,
if Abraham knew Him as a Friend,
if Moses knew Him as the Redeemer,
if Rahab knew Him as the gracious Savior,
if David knew Him as his Shepherd,
if Elijah knew Him as the Almighty,
if Daniel knew Him as the Lion Tamer,
if Mary Magdalene knew Him as the Bondage Breaker
if Martha knew Him as the Promise Keeper,
if Lazarus knew Him as the Resurrection and the Life
if Bartimaeus knew Him as the Light of the World,
if John knew Him as the glorious King upon the throne,
surely you and I can know Him too!
The victorious Christian neither exalts nor downgrades himself. His interests have shifted from self to Christ.
~A.W. Tozer~
Faithfully continue to walk with Christ, and then you will experience a life of love, joy, and peace. Although we are not perfect, we aim for a high standard––of holiness. When we enter eternity, we shall be perfect.
Dwight D. Eisenhower wrote, “Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed — else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.”
The Lord is a loving Father who knows what will give us the abundant life He desires for us. He teaches us valuable life lessons; gratitude is one of them. He promised His children a land flowing with milk and honey. A full fridge.
A full, satisfying life!
The only way the kingdom of God is going to be manifest in this world before Christ comes is if we manifest it by the way we live as citizens of heaven and subjects of the King.
~R.C. Sproul~
The saints––believers in Christ–– will become kings and priests in the Kingdom Age. Imagine, that everything we are learning in our service for Jesus Christ on earth will help us prepare for reigning with Him then. This is why we cannot make this world our home. One day we shall be in eternity, serving God forever:
Sometimes a storm comes into our lives that is protecting us from something worse. That is difficult for us to wrap our minds around. Is it possible that hardship could ever be better than success? Sometimes a hardship can be better than success because there are things we learn through hardships that we would not have learned otherwise.
The world says, “Love yourself.” Jesus says, “Deny yourself.”
The world says, “Serve yourself.” Jesus says, “Serve others.”
The world says, “Forgive yourself.” Jesus says, “Forgive others.”
The world is utterly opposed to the agenda of Jesus Christ.
There is an individual soul, but there is also, in a metaphorical sense, a popular or national soul. There are particular, individual sins, but also general, social sins. And thus there is individual guilt, but also common social guilt.
To find mirth in others’ miseries, and to exult over the ills of others, is worthy only of the devil and of those whose father he is.
Charles Spurgeon
"Better, far better, not to speak at all, but go home in silence, than to enter upon all kinds of general conversation as soon as the service is over." -
John Angell James.
The gospel is the gospel, good news for all creatures, not a proclamation of destruction and death, but of resurrection and life.
"Let the telephone between you and the Eternal never cease from its use." —
Charles Spurgeon
I am delighted to lean upon God and place my whole trust in him.
I have a great need for Christ: I have a great Christ for my need.
Charles Spurgeon
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