this is me at my darkest, looking down from my tower to heaven ( Read more... )

We were considering the Christian idea of 'putting on Christ', or first 'dressing up' as a son of God in order that you may finally become a real son. What I want to make clear is that this is not one among many jobs a Christian has to do; and it is not a sort of special exercise for the top class. It is the whole of Christianity. Christianity ( Read more... )

An ordinary simple Christian kneels down to say his prayers. He is trying to get into touch with God. But if he is a Christian he knows that what is prompting him to pray is also God: God, so to speak, inside him. But he also knows that all his real knowledge of God comes through Christ, the Man who was God--that Christ is standing beside him, ( Read more... )

more coming here soon. i promise.

Consider what God has done: Who can straighten what he has made crooked? [Ecclesiastes 7:13]

God often seems to place His children in places of deep difficulty, leading them into a corner from which there is no escape. He creates situations that human judgment, even if consulted, would never allow. Yet the cloudiness of the circumstance itself is ( Read more... )

Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him. [Psalm 37:7]

Have you prayed, and waited and waited, and still you see no evidence of an answer? Are you tired of seeing no movement? Are you at the point of giving up? Then perhaps you have not waited in the right way, which removes you from the right place--the place where the Lord can meet ( Read more... )

Do not fret because of evil men or be envious of those who do wrong. [Psalm 37:1]

Never become extremely upset over your circumstances. If worry were ever justified, it would have been during the circumstances surrounding the writing of this psalm. "Evil men" were "dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day" [Luke 16:19]. " ( Read more... )

Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! [Philippians 4:4]

It is a good thing to "rejoice in the Lord." Perhaps you have tried it but seemed to fail at first. Don't give it a second thought, and forge ahead. Even when you cannot feel any joy, there is no spring in your step, nor any comfort or encouragement in your life, ( Read more... )

The forested hill country . . . will be yours. [Joshua 17:18]

There is always room higher in the hills. When the valleys are full of Canaanites, whose mighty iron chariots are slowing your progress, go up to the hills and occupy the higher land. If you find you can no longer do work for Gof, pray for those who can. You may not be able to move ( Read more... )

Your heavenly Father knows. [Matthew 6:23]

A visitor at a school for the deaf was writing questions on the board for the children. Soon he wrote this sentence: "Why has God made me able to hear and speak, and made you deaf ( Read more... )