Do you know the only people who can demand perfect parents? Perfect children. The only people who can demand a perfect pastor is a perfect church member. The only person who can demand a perfect politician is a perfect citizen!There is never a license for rebellion. There are ways to reason together in a church, home, and government.
There is a place of quiet rest, near to the heart of God. A place where sin cannot molest, near to the heart of God.There is a place of comfort sweet, near to the heart of God. A place where we our Savior meet, near to the heart of God.
It’s not circumstances that have you down; your thoughts about your circumstances have you down. It is possible to be in one of the biggest battles for your life and still be filled with joy and peace and victory – if you simply learn how to choose the right thoughts. Fill your mind with God’s Word.
Things and persons appear to us according to the light we throw
upon them from our own minds. How unconsciously we judge others
by the light that is within ourselves, condemning or approving
them by our own conception of right and wrong, honor and
dishonor! We show by our judgment just what the light within us is. -- Laura Ingalls Wilder
I'm grateful that...
... Noah didn't say, "I don't do floods."
... Joshua didn't say, "I don't do Jerichos."
... David didn't say, "I don't do poems."
... Daniel didn't say, "I don't do lions' dens."
.... Joseph didn't say, "I don't do adoptions."
... Paul didn't say, "I don't do mission trips."
And I'm most grateful that Jesus didn't say, "I don't do crosses."
“I hear religious minded people say all the time with good intentions. ‘God will never place a burden on you so heavy that you cannot possibly carry it. ’Really? My experience is that God will place a burden on you so heavy that you cannot possibly carry it alone. He will break your back and your will. He will buckle your legs until ...you fall flat beneath the crushing weight of your load. All the while He will walk beside you waiting for you to come to the point where you must depend on Him.‘My power is made perfect in your weakness,’ He says, as we strain under our burden.Whatever the burden, it might indeed get worse, but know this-God is faithful. And while we change and get old, He does not. When we get weaker, He remains strong. And in our weakness and humility, He offers us true, lasting, transforming, and undeserved grace.”
