Although the law has some God-given inabilities, it is nevertheless good. "Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good" (Romans 7:12). It does have certain abilities, "if one uses it lawfully." One unlawful application of the law would be using it to obtain justification (a declaration of being righteous in God's sight). If anyone ever infers that attempted obedience to the law of God could potentially secure an overall verdict of "not guilty," that would be biblically forbidden.
"One sign you've encountered God is you walk with a limp, not a strut." -
Matt Smethurst.
"The Bible is the most delightful book in the entire world, and it is a great joy to me." —
Charles Spurgeon
Faith acknowledges the sufficiency of God's power and also the sufficiency of his mercy to save and defend. Jonathan Edwards
If you think that God is incapable of making you happy forever you don't know God. -
John Piper
“Wise and knowing men, destitute of the Spirit, do not think those things to be sins at all wherein the chief moving and actings of lust do consist.” John Owen
The Lord has promised good to me, His Word, my hope secures. —
John Newton
C. S. Lewis wrote in Mere Christianity, “The real test of being in the presence of God is that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object.” Then he concluded, “It is better to forget about yourself altogether.”
if we are going to follow Jesus, then we need to deny ourselves. This simply means that we want His will more than our own. What it doesn’t mean is that we must give up everything that we find enjoyable or pleasurable. It also doesn’t mean that we aren’t allowed to have fun anymore or that we must walk around wearing a somber expression all the time.
So God speaks.
Out of the thunder He speaks. Out of the sky, He speaks. For all of us who would put ditto marks under Job’s question and sign our names to it, He speaks.
For the father who holds a rose taken off his son’s coffin, He speaks. For the wife who holds the flag taken off her husband’s casket, He speaks. For the couple with the barren womb and the fervent prayers, He speaks. For any person who has tried to see God through shattered glass, He speaks. For those of us who have dared to say, “If God is God, then...,” God speaks.
God is never irritated by the candle of an honest seeker.
by Max Lucado
When we see and hear from God that is all we need. To do so just sit at His feet and pray and seek Him.
Accept the gift of Himself. Let Him speak and comfort you. He’s there with you whether you’re rich or poor, well or ill, male or female, full or hungry.
"Jesus, thou marred One, thy cross, instead of being a stumbling block to us is the glory of our faith." - Charles Spurgeon
Churchless Christians are not biblical Christians. If you aren’t seeking to gather locally with other believers on Lord’s Day, you’re missing the rich experience and immense blessing of what Christ came to establish.
It is one of the temptations of the devil to tell you not to pray when you do not feel like praying. Pray twice as much then. - Charles Spurgeon
"Christ loves you. He would sooner die than allow you to perish." —
Charles Spurgeon
Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you. J. C. Ryle
It is one thing to believe in God; it is quite another to believe in God. —
RC Sproul
Read the Bible daily. Make it part of your everyday business to read and meditate on some portion of God's Word. Gather your manna fresh every morning. Do not scramble over and hurry your reading. Give your Bible the best, and not the worst, part of your time. -
JC Ryle
“There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.” - C.S. Lewis
Even as true believers do not make an end to sinning, so God cannot make an end to pardoning. —Nathaniel Holmes (1599-1678)
"Jesus invites men of all nations to come to the gospel feast, and as they enter the casts upon them the sweet perfumes of his love and grace so that they are fragrant before the Lord." - Charles Spurgeon
I wish that saints would cling to Christ half as earnestly as sinners cling to the devil. –
Charles Spurgeon
Unless we are profoundly certain that God is our good father, We will never be able to say "thy will be done."
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