The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit. —
Proverbs 18:21
How closely do you pay attention to what comes out of your mouth? How do you feel when you say something unkind versus when you say something that cheers someone up or makes them feel hopeful and happy?
Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law? ( Galatians 4:21 ) When people do not really hear what the law of God is saying, they may still desire to be under the law. Those who are lost and dying in the world often underestimate the message of the law. They may imagine that it is only calling them to attend religious services or to join a religious organization. In missing the message of the law, they choose to remain under it, trusting in their own best behavior to pass any final judgment concerning heaven or hell. This is a matter of "not hearing the law."
God's word reveals that His law has a strategic inability. There is an arena in which the law has a "weakness and unprofitableness." The law demands perfection, but it offers no perfecting resources. "The law made nothing perfect." This inability is certainly not due to any oversight on God's part. Rather, this inability is related to that which God never intended for His law to accomplish.
Our pride must have winter weather (trials) to rot it out. —
Samuel Rutherford, The Loveliness of Christ, 47
'A preacher should from the outset keep a list of sermons preached, including date, place, and text." -John Albert Broadus.
"If you and your sins part, Christ and you shall never part." —
Charles Spurgeon
"May the Lord be the Sun, and we the dewdrops which sparkle in his rays and are exhaled and drawn aloft by the heat of his love!" - Charles Spurgeon
Get alone with Jesus, and He will comfort your hearts, and restore your weary souls.
Charles Spurgeon
God communicates himself more continually than the sun. The sun turns from us and leaves a shadow, but God is without a shadow of turning.
Jonathan Edwards
Short prayers are long enough.
Charles Spurgeon
"They like the Bible least who know it least, and they love it most who read it most." —
Charles Spurgeon
"Every man becomes like the object of his strongest love & highest admiration." -
A. Moody Stuart.
The church is not to rule over the state and the state may not rule over the church, but each must limit itself to its own domain. —
Wilhelmus à Brakel, The Christian’s Reasonable Service, 1:565
“Kiss the Son, not as Judas did…” —Matthew Henry
"The Christian’s business: 1. Learn Christ’s will. 2. Do it." —
Charles Spurgeon
"May our gracious God deal with us from the beginning of the year to the end of the year through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen." - Charles Spurgeon
"When your pain returns, then lift up your heart to Jesus. He will either take it away or give you the patience to bear it." -Mary Winslow.
God has in himself an infinite fullness and sufficiency, and his fullness is continually overflowing.
Jonathan Edwards
5 minutes of prayer is worth more than 5 years of scrolling through social media.
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