The meek man is not a human mouse afflicted with a sense of his own inferiority. He has accepted God's estimate of his own life: In himself, nothing; In God, everything. He knows well that the world will never see him as God sees him and he has stopped caring.
To avoid the hard necessity of either obeying or rejecting the plain instructions of our Lord in the New Testament we take refuge in a liberal interpretation of them. We evangelicals also know how to avoid the sharp point of obedience by means of fine and intricate explanations. These are tailor-made for the flesh. They excuse disobedience, comfort carnality and make the words of Christ of none effect. And the essence of it all is that Christ simply could not have meant what He said. His teachings are accepted even theoretically only after they have been weakened by interpretation.
The most important thing you think is what you think about God.
There is a restlessness within us that cannot be satisfied until we rest fully in God.
Come near to the holy men and women of the past and you will soon feel the heat of their desire after God. They mourned for Him, they prayed and wrestled and sought for Him day and night, in season and out, and when they found Him, the finding was all the sweeter for the long seeking.
The main thing is this: we should never blame anyone or anything for our defeats. No matter how evil their intentions may be, they are altogether unable to harm us until we begin to blame them and use them as excuses for our own unbelief.
Spiritual Christians look upon the world not as a playground but as a battleground.
God will speak to the hearts of those who prepare themselves to hear; and conversely, those who do not so prepare themselves will hear nothing even though the Word of God is falling upon their outer ears every Sunday.
We can seek God and find him! God is knowable, touchable, hearable, seeable, with the mind, the hands, the ears and the eyes of the inner man.
Be hard on yourself and easy on others. Carry your own cross but never lay one on the back of another
If we try to obey without faith, we get nowhere. If we try to have faith without obedience, it ends in nothing.
Trust God in the dark until the light returns.
Faith is a re-directing of our sight, a getting out of the focus of our own vision and getting God into focus.
God purposed redemption in Christ Jesus before the world began, and His plan does not need any editing by man.
When the Holy Spirit is in full control of our lives, He will expect our obedience to the written Word of God. But it is part of our human problem that we would like to be full of the Spirit and yet go on and do as we please!
We cannot enter into the presence of God while we are rebelling against God.
An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly.
The Christian is a holy rebel loose in the world with access to the throne of God.
We must never allow the majority to overrule the clear teaching of the Word of God.
Jesus Christ left us an example for our daily conduct. He felt no bitter resentment and He held no grudge against anyone! Even those who crucified Him were forgiven while they were in the act. Not a word did He utter against them nor against the ones who stirred them up to destroy Him. How evil they all were. He knew better than any other man, but He maintained a charitable attitude toward them.
God does not love us because we are hard or easy to love, He loves us because He is God.
In coming to Christ we don't bring our old life up to a higher plane; we leave it at the cross.
God sees us perfect in His Son while He disciplines and chastens and purges us that we may be partakers of His holiness.
The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God, that they may enter into Him, that they may delight in His Presence, may taste and know the inner sweetness of the very God Himself in the core and center of their hearts.
Nothing that comes from God will minister to my pride of self-congratulation. If I am tempted to be complacent and to feel superior because I have had a remarkable vision or an advanced spiritual experience, I should go at once to my knees and repent of the whole thing. I have fallen victim to the enemy.
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