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It is not the multitude of hard duties, it is not constraint and contention that advance us in our Christian course. On the contrary, it is the yielding of our wills without restriction and without choice, to tread cheerfully every day in the path in which Providence leads us, to seek nothing, to be discouraged by nothing, to see our duty in the present moment, to trust all else without reserve to the will and power of God.
-Fenelon
Whatsoever, wheresoever, whensoever You please!
-R.M. M’Cheyne
The trees of the Lord are full of sap. Psalm 104:16
Without sap the tree cannot flourish or even exist. Vitality is essential to a Christian. There must be life—a vital principle infused into us by God the Holy Spirit—or we cannot be trees of the Lord. What a secret thing the sap is! The roots go searching through the soil, but we cannot see them transform the mineral into the vegetable. This work is done down in the dark. Our root is Christ Jesus, and our life is hid in Him. This is the secret of the Lord. In the Christian, the divine life is always full of energy.
-C.H. Spurgeon
We would never know the music of the harp if the strings were left untouched or enjoy the juice of the grape if it were not trodden in the wine-press. We would never discover the sweet perfume of cinnamon if it were not pressed and beaten or feel the warmth of fire if the coals were not utterly consumed. The wisdom and power of the great Workman are discovered by the trials through which His vessels of mercy are permitted to pass.
-C. H. Spurgeon
Have we not seen Thy shining garment’s hem
Floating at dawn across the golden skies,
Through thin blue veils at noon, bright majesties,
Seen starry hosts delight to gem
The splendor that shall be Thy diadem?
-Amy Carmichael
Following
I follow where Thou leadest, what are bruises?
There are cool leaves of healing on Thy tree;
Lead Thou me on. Thy heavenly wisdom chooses
In love for me.
Thy lover then, like happy homing swallow
That crosses hill and plain and lonely sea,
All unafraid, so I will fearless follow,
For love of Thee.
-Amy Carmichael
Your sigh is able to move the heart of Jehovah. Your whisper can incline His ear to you. Your prayer can stay His hand, and your faith can move His arm. Do not think that God sits on high taking no account of you. -Charles Spurgeon
"For the eyes of the LORD move to and fro throughout the earth that He may strongly support those whose heart is completely His.” 2 Chronicles 16:9 NASB
Obedience is the opener of eyes. –George MacDonald
We may be sure in every disappointment that thou art still loving us;
And in every darkness that thou art still enlightening us;
And in every enforced idleness that thou art still using us.
–Phillips Brooks
Give me the love that leads the way,
The faith that nothing can dismay,
The hope no disappointments tire,
The passion that will burn like fire,
Let me not sink to be a clod:
Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God.
-Amy Carmichael
Thou art coming to a King.
Large petitions with thee bring;
For His grace and pow’r are such
None can ever ask too much.
-John Newton
If it can be proved that the great Father ever allows any of His children to cry to Him in vain, or if it can be shown that He leaves any of them to stumble home in the dark as best they can, then Christianity has broken down. But can it? There is no cause for alarm…each child finds a place of his own, and his voice is loved and listened to. It is inconceivable that the Father of fatherhood will overlook one of His children.
-F.W. Boreham
While waiting on God, believe that His greatness and your smallness suit each other wonderfully.
-Andrew Murray
God never leaves His child to fail when in the path of obedience.
-Theodore Cuyler
Are you where God would have you be? If you are, then be afraid to complain of circumstances which God has ordained on purpose to work out in you the very image and likeness of His son.
-Mark Guy Pearse
The Lord is your Shepherd to guide, watch, preserve, restore, and tend, as well as to feed. His eyes never slumber, and His hands never rest. His heart never ceases to beat with love, and His shoulders are never weary of carrying His people’s burdens.
-C.H. Spurgeon
In this posting I am featuring some thoughts taken from a monthly letter written by Christy Wilkerson of Maozisrael Ministries. Her words are very timely and I sense that some of you need to be encouraged by them today. I will continue my thoughts on security in an uncertain world at my next posting.
“Every day as we listen to the news we hear how the world is changing at lightning speed. To the natural mind it can be frightening…but to our spiritual eyes and ears, it alerts us to be vigilant and recognize the “signs of the times.”
We cannot live in fear—it is a noose around our neck. We cannot panic—or we will make poor decisions. We must not lose hope—for hope deferred makes the heart sick.
Do not lose desire! Do not panic! Do not fear! For the Lord thy God is with thee, wherever you go!
The Lord is with you…right by your side…helping you not to fear, not to lose heart, not to panic…He is right there, orchestrating your path, guarding your footsteps, leading and guiding you.”
-Christy Wilkerson
A real Christian is an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see, expects to go to heaven on the virtue of Another, empties himself in order to be full, admits he is wrong so he can be declared right, goes down in order to get up, is strongest when he is weakest, richest when he is poorest and happiest when he feels worst. He dies so he can live, forsakes in order to have, gives away so he can keep, sees the invisible, hears the inaudible and knows that which passeth knowledge….The man who has met God is not looking for something—he has found it; he is not searching for light—upon him the Light has already shined. His certainty may seem bigoted, but his is the assurance of one who knows by experience. His religion is not hearsay; he is not a copy, not a facsimile print; he is an original from the hand of the Holy Ghost.
We are waiting for a trumpet note that will call us away from the hurly-burly and set in motion a series of events that will result at last in a new heaven and a new earth.
We can afford to wait.
—The Root of the Righteous, A.W. Tozer
The work of Christ on the cross did not influence God to love us, did not increase that love by one degree, and did not open any fount of grace or mercy in His heart. He had loved us from eternity, and needed nothing to stimulate that love. The cross is not responsible for God’s love; rather it was His love which conceived the cross as the one method by which we could be saved.
-A.W. Tozer
We would have been satisfied if He had allowed us to eat the crumbs of His bounty beneath the table of His mercy; but He will do nothing by halves. He makes us sit with Him and share the feast. Had Jesus given us some small pension from His royal chambers, we would have had cause to love Him eternally. But no, He wants His bride to be as rich as Himself. He will not have a glory or a grace in which she will not share. He has not been content with less than making us joint-heirs with Himself, so that we might have equal possessions. -C. H. Spurgeon
All I have is yours; I have given it to you in Christ. All the Holy Spirit’s power and wisdom, all the riches of Christ, all the love of the Father; there is nothing that I have that is not yours. I am God, and I love you. –Andrew Murray
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