Sin’s Destructive Power
Sin in the last analysis, in its most terrible form, is infidelity to love. It hurts God. It destroys the sinner.
G. Campbell Morgan (1863-1945)
HT: @philipnation
Measuring God’s Love
Measure not God’s love and favour by your own feeling. The sun shines as clearly in the darkest day as it does in the brightest. The difference is not in the sun, but in some clouds which hinder the manifestation of the light thereof.
The Joy of Union with Christ
Joy is a response to having been “united” with what we love.
HT: @gregatkinson
Truth and Love Need Each Other
Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love.
HT: @bruceashford
A Reason a Non-believing World Is Not Convinced
If the world is little convinced that Jesus is God’s Son, it is due less to any apologetic deficiency and more to the disunity and dysfunction of our life together as the family of God. The Church’s failure in peacemaking is due in large measure to our failure as members to believe and appropriate the biblical truth that the Church is God’s family. Biblical peacemaking will only become firmly rooted in the Church when we recover the meaning and practice of the Church as the family of God.
Alfred Poirier, The Peacemaking Pastor (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2006), 91.
Chosen as His Children
True Separation and Personal Holiness
Separation without devotion to the Lord becomes isolation, but devotion without separation is hypocrisy (See 2 Cor. 6.14-7.1).
Warren W. Wiersbe, Be Determined (Colorado Springs: Chariotvictor Publishing, 1992), 109.
Christ Paid Too Great a Cost
The souls whom He [Christ] has purchased and redeemed with His own blood are far too precious to be wasted and thrown away.
Willing to Will as God Wills
Practical conformity to God’s will cannot be attained by our own efforts. We cannot will to will as God wills, but we can turn ourselves to Him and ask Him to put the power within us to subdue the evil conqueror, the rebels, and make us masters of our own troubled spirits. There is only one power that can draw us out of the land of rebellious disobedience where the famine and the rags are, and that is the convicting Spirit of God which is given to all them that desire Him and will lead them in paths of righteousness for His name’s sake. If He be my God… and therefore longing to have me obedient, He will not withhold what is needed to make me so.
Alexander Maclaren in Wilbur M. Smith, Peloubet’s Select Notes on the International Bible Lessons for Christian Teaching (Boston: W. A. Wilde Co., 1948), 287.
Life Is Worship 