Author: Administrador

Let us not be shocked by the suggestion that there are disadvantages to the life in Christ.… Everyone who has lived for Christ in a Christless world has suffered some losses and endured some pains that he could have avoided by the simple expedient of laying down his cross. However, the pains are short and … Continue reading “TRIALS:
INEVITABILITY OF”

A determination to know what cannot be known always works harm to the Christian heart. Ignorance in matters on our human level is never to be excused if there has been opportunity to correct it. But there are matters which are obviously “too high for us.” These we should meet in trusting faith and say … Continue reading “TRIALS:
ATTITUDE TOWARD; GOD: HIS INSCRUTABILITY; FAITH: CONFIDENCE IN GOD”

In this call to His people for true humility, God adds the promise that He will exalt us in due time! “Due time.” I think that means a time that is proper to all of the circumstances. It will be the time that God knows is best suited to perfect us and a time that … Continue reading “TRIALS:
ATTITUDE TOWARD; PATIENCE: GOD’S TIMING; HUMILITY”

Some of you know something of that which has been called “the dark night of the soul.” Some of you have spiritual desire and deep longing for victory but it seems to you that your efforts to go on with God have only brought you more bumps and more testings and more discouragement. You are … Continue reading “TRIALS:
DIFFICULTY OF; SPIRITUAL VICTORY”

There are two kinds of tranquility among us—not counting the tranquilizer a person can buy in bottles. There is the tranquility that people find in just taking themselves and everything around them for granted. They tend to believe all kinds of good things about themselves—which are not really true. That is dangerous. Then there is … Continue reading “TRANQUILITY;
PEACE: INNER”

A beauty salon ad recently defined a term which has long needed clarification. It read: “Permanent Waves. Guaranteed to last three months.” So, permanence is the quality of lasting three months! These may be extreme cases, but they illustrate the transiency of men’s hopes and the brevity of their dreams apart from God. James 4:13–14 … Continue reading “TRANSIENCY;
PERMANENCE”

Ten thousand enemies cannot stop a Christian, cannot even slow him down, if he meets them in an attitude of complete trust in God. They will become to him like the atmosphere that resists the airplane, but which because the plane’s designer knew how to take advantage of that resistance, actually lifts the plane aloft … Continue reading “TRIALS:
ATTITUDE TOWARD; FAITH: CONFIDENCE IN GOD”

“We will talk to you about religion” is the seemingly kindly offer people give us today. But then they add the disclaimer: “Just do not make religion personal.” “Christianity is all right,” they assure us, “if you are willing to be tolerant and not try to make something exclusive of your Christian faith.” Most people … Continue reading “TOLERANCE/INTOLERANCE;
RELIGION: EMPTESS OF; DIALOGUE”

To capture a city an enemy must first weaken or destroy its resistance, and so it is with the evangelical forces at any given time or place. It is impossible for Satan to storm the citadel of God as long as faithful watchmen stand on the walls to rouse her soldiers to action. The church … Continue reading “TOLERANCE/INTOLERANCE;
SPIRITUAL WARFARE; SATAN”

One of the great German poets of 200 years ago, von Goethe, summed it up for us all, when he wrote: “I have never heard of a sin being committed without knowing full well that I had the seed of it within myself.” We are on the most blessed ground with our forgiving Savior when … Continue reading “TOTAL
DEPRAVITY”