God may be pruning something out of your life. Let it go. Trust Him. Don’t fight it. Welcome it, for His pruning will ultimately enrich your life. Ray Bentley
Christ did not go to the cross for a potential atonement based on what we may or may not do. Christ saved His people.
If you are never born twice, you will wish you were never born once.
"It is impossible for a man who is warm to understand one who is cold.” —Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Opposition to the divine will is the very essence of all sin. ~David Thomas~
How can I trust God when I’m suffering? The Bible doesn’t give us easy, pat answers to the problem of suffering. But it does acknowledge both the reality of pain and the presence of God in the midst of pain. When we suffer, we may not have the answers we desire, but we can know the presence and compassion of God.
God’s love for us is steadfast even in times of loss and sorrow.
Integrity is not a given factor in everyone’s life. It is a result of self-discipline, inner trust, and a decision to be relentlessly honest in all situations in our lives.
~John Maxwell~
The “main Character” in my favorite book dies. But it’s okay
He comes back to Life in 3 days! Highly recommend this Book!!
Often times we find it easier to weep with those who are weeping than it is to rejoice with those who rejoice. Don't think so? Look at your own family. How many times have you heard (or said), "That's not fair, he or she gets so and so and I don't." Usually, a temper tantrum or pout follows. And families are supposed to love and want what's best, for each other. The word tells us to rejoice with those who rejoice.
Another wonderful blessing in Christ is the foundation that He provides for all who live by His grace. As with buildings, lives also need solid foundations. Our foundation is a person, Jesus. "For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ?" By the grace of God enabling him, Paul ministered to the gospel of Jesus Christ. "According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation."
When you invite Jesus into the home of your being (being born again), you are supposed to also give Him the run of the house (making Him Lord over your life). However, many of us are slow to do that completely. Whether we admit it or not, we hesitate to believe that God can be trusted with every area of our lives.
We live in dangerous times. Not only does violence stalk us in the form of terrorism and crime, but our culture itself is crumbling. Our society tolerates and even praises what would once have been barely spoken of. If we stand up we are branded as intolerant, a term today’s culture considers an inexcusable offense. If we don’t speak up, people won’t know the biblical truth.
Throughout the Bible, we read story after story of God's faithfulness in the face of adversity, despite the faithlessness of His people. Paul says in Romans 8:24, "Hope that is seen is no hope at all. For who hopes for what he already has?"
The death of Christ doesn’t instantly bring reconciliation to divided workplaces. But it does lay a foundation for true, deep, lasting reconciliation in every sector of life. Moreover, it enlists those of us who have experienced reconciliation with God through Christ to be agents of reconciliation in the world, including the places where we work. If Christ gave his life to bring reconciliation to a broken world, surely those of us who follow him will seek to bring reconciliation to the places in the world to which God has sent us, including our workplaces.
A true and safe leader is likely to be one who has no desire to lead but is forced into a position of leadership by the inward pressure of the Holy Spirit and the press of the external situation.
~A.W. Tozer~
Many don’t walk by faith because the past keeps dragging us backward. Abuse, pain, grief, childhood memories, bitterness, and false security can turn the past into an obsession.
This calling has been given to me to do. Therefore, it is a gift. Therefore, it is a privilege … Therefore, it is to be done gladly, if it is done for Him. Here, not somewhere else, I may learn God’s way. In this job, not in some other, God looks for faithfulness.
~Elizabeth Elliot~
What matters, is our attention to what we’ve been entrusted with in the present. Some of us are at the height of our careers, at the height of our powers. Others are at the beginning of their vocational journey, where much is promised yet unfulfilled. Some of us are nearer the end of our journey than the beginning, where our lives and gifts appear more fragile and uncertain. Wherever and whenever we find ourselves, the challenge is to be “trustworthy in a few things.” As someone has wisely said, the challenge of this life is not in doing great things, but in doing small things with great love. May that be true of us. And, may we hear our Master Jesus say to us on that Last Day: “Well done... you have been trustworthy in a few things, I will put you in charge of many things; enter the joy of your master.”
You cannot grow in grace to any high degree while you are conformed to the world. The life of separation may be a path of sorrow, but it is the highway of safety, and though the separated life may be painful and make every day a battle, yet it is a happy life after all. No joy can excel that of the soldier of Christ: Jesus reveals Himself so graciously and gives such sweet refreshment that the warrior feels more calm and peace in his daily strife than others in their hours of rest.
BY ALISTAIR BEGG
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