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Luck And Cleverness
You do not know what tomorrow will bring… You ought to say, ‘If the Lord wishes, we will live and do this or that.’ James 4:14,15. How did you get to be where you are? Luck? A Christian would rather call it Providence. Cleverness? Good – but cleverness alone will not save us from possible […]
Lord, Do You Not Care?
‘Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?’ He woke up and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, ‘Peace! Be still!’ Then the wind ceased, and there was a dead calm. Mark 4:38,39. Reflect on this story in your prayer. How do you feel? You are utterly helpless to do anything to […]
You Are What You Sing
Sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs… making melody to the Lord in your hearts. Ephesians 5:19. This week a song I heard at a church camp has been re-echoing in my mind: ‘Faithful One, so unchanging; Ageless One, you’re my rock of peace; Lord of all, I depend on you, I call out to […]
Find A Desert
The word about Jesus spread abroad; many crowds would gather to hear him and be cured of their diseases. But he would withdraw to deserted places and pray. Luke 5:16. You cannot be fully active, unless you are partly contemplative, nor fully contemplative (at least on earth) without being partly active, says the great English […]
The Tyranny Of The Past
[I was] a persecutor of the church. Philippians 3:3. Paul had some great failures, but he learned to leave them behind. The biggest of all was his misplaced zeal in persecting the church. What sad irony! Since his Damascus-road about-face, he’s building up what he once set out to destroy! Who is there among us […]
Life’s Greatest Tragedy
John called Mark… had deserted them in Pamphylia and had not accompanied them in the work. Acts 15: 37,38. Life’s greatest tragedy is not to fall down, it’s to stay down. The greatest disaster in life is not to fail, it’s to park there, and say ‘What’s the use?’ Ethel Waters was born to a […]
Jesus’ Destiny And Our Peace
A little while, and you will no longer see me, and again a little while, and you will see me. John 16:16. As Jesus spoke about his impending death to his disciples, there were two responses: the earliest – resentment; later – fear. Jesus’ friends didn’t understand this sort of destiny. They’d expected another kind […]
You’ve Succeeded- Now Move On
Whatever gains I had, these I have come to regard as loss because of Christ. More than that, I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. Philippians 3:7,8. In Philippians 3 Paul lists his attainments, his successes. First there is his inherited Jewish privileges; then his Jewish […]
Victory Through Christ
I have conquered the world. John 16:33. Just as Jesus was identified with us in our defeats and sicknesses and suffering, so, he says, we can be identified with him in his victory. This opens up some amazing possibilities. His victories I can make my own. If I adjust my life to his, and relate […]
Such Is Life!
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and come to their end as the thread runs out. Job 7:6 (mg.). We human beings appear on the stage of life so transiently. We do our bit-part, and move into the wings, to make way for others. The Egyptian Sphinx has watched Antony and Cleopatra, Alexander, […]
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