Sometimes we agonize over our dry uninspiring prayer time. We agonize over it at length even as we try to endure and to arouse in ourself a desire and focus to pray. Failing to do so successfully, we agonize more and return to the days with the half-satisfied thought that we have been keeping up [...]
“In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” – John 16:33
God does not give us overcoming life: He gives us life as we overcome. The strain is the strength. If there is no strain, there is no strength. Are you asking God to give you life [...]
Are we too advanced for the Bible?
Being honest with myself I’ve discovered that sometimes I believe that. The thought hides somewhere deep in the subconscious. Why read the Bible? I’ve done that. How bout I read some other Christian books instead? They give me more insight in more specific and modern ways…
Are we spiritually matured [...]
Today I begin what I hope to be a lifelong joy and practice of Sabbath keeping.
A day of rest… Around the end of last summer I pondered how we strive to keep the Ten Commandments, but so blatantly shrug off this one. At the start of last term (2B) I actually decided I’d do do [...]
Not everything one does in thinking he does it with love for the Lord is good. Many of the crusaders in centuries past thought the same thing. Obey. Be certain what is done is considered with God’s rule, not his rule subconsciously flexed to your whims. Love is first. But love is not mere emotion.
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September [...]
My Utmost for His Highest
July 1
There is no heaven with a little corner of hell in it.
The messages of Jesus Christ are for the will and the conscience, not for the head. If you dispute the Sermon on the Mount with your head, you will blunt the appeal to your heart.
Philippians 3:12
If that I may [...]
For those of us who wish to be, we are rocks being carved after the image of Christ. Do not resist and harden yourself against the knocking of the tools, lest cracks form and propogate through your entire body. Chiselling is required, but it must be endured for progress to be made.
“The only test as to whether we ought to allow an emotion to have its way is to see what the outcome of the emotion will be.” Do not constantly question your emotions, but neither let all your emotions take complete reign. “Going with the flow” of the world and doing whatever feels good is [...]
Quoted portions from the chapter These Inward Trials, of Knowing God by J.I. Packer.
Misapplied Doctrine
“A certain type of ministry of the gospel is cruel. It does not mean to be, but it is.” In order to draw people to Christianity some may, unknowingly and wrongfully, place an over-emphasis on the overcoming power of the Christian [...]
Guidance is a problem for christians not because we doubt that there is divine guidance, but that we are afraid we will not pick up on the guidance when it is given. Really, we just misunderstand what guidance is. This topic of guidance was what I read on tonight from J.I. Packer’s Knowing God. It’s [...]
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