For His divine power has given us everything required for life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and goodness. By these He has given us very great and precious promises, so that through them you may share in the divine nature, escaping the corruption that is in the world because of evil […]
Cold bloodA lizard is very susceptible to the influences of its environment. If the temperature around it is hot, it can move faster than I can watch. If the temperature is cold, it slows down, and at a certain temperature simply can’t move. Warm bloodMammals have body temperature controls that enable them to cool off if their environment becomes hot, […]
Love through me, Love of God, Make me like Thy clear airThrough which unhindered, Colours passAs though it were not there. Powers of the love of God, Depths of the heart Divine,O Love that faileth not, Break forthAnd flood this world of Thine. Amy Carmichael, Servant of Yahweh and India (1867-1951)
It is difficult to maintain the balance between being internally at peace and externally at war. The war against us does not stop, even if we surrender to enemy forces. Prisoners of war are in a state of war. The internal war can stop, though. Our surrender to Jesus empowers us to have peace internally, and gives us strength and […]
If we are only looking around for answers, we should be able to find someone who has one or more. If we are only looking around for someone to fix our problems, we should be able to find someone who can do that. Maybe for a fee, maybe free. If we are looking for wisdom, we find much more than […]
Today you can disagree with Jesus all you like. One day, though, that will not be possible. Today you can sleep another 5 minutes or 15. One day, there will be no more night. Today, you can trust dollars, doctors, priests, and politicians. One day, they will be displaced by the dominion of the King of Glory. Today, you could […]
Jesus did not just become a man so that He could earn our salvation for us by becoming a righteous sacrifice. He lived a life that is an example to us of what is possible under the influence of and lifted by the power of the Holy Spirit. His life was an example of what our lives will look like […]
But everything that was a gain to me, I have considered to be a loss because of Christ. More than that, I also consider everything to be a loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. Because of Him I have suffered the loss of all things and consider them filth, so that I may […]
When we get our strength right, it is because we are finding His strength in our weaknesses. The fruit of His Spirit is strength to us. As Nehemiah told his helpers, the joy of the Lord is your strength.
The only way you could start with the defeat of Jesus on the cross and then come to defeat yourself is if you surrender to someone or something other than Jesus. Jesus, in a position of defeat, defeated death and the grave and sin. The only way forward from the position of having been defeated by sin for us is […]