Contentment

A spiritual secret is to learn contentment with the things God doesn’t explain to us. –Amy Carmichael

How completely satisfying to turn from our limitations to a God who has none. Eternal years lie in His heart. For Him time does not pass, it remains; and those who are in Christ share with Him all the riches of limitless time and endless years. God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which He must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirit and relax our nerves.
–A.W. Tozer

A Few Quotes

Our Christian life today is a foretaste of the heavenly banquet still to come; for God has “made us to sit down with Him” who first was seated by mighty power in the heavenly places far above all (Ephesians 1:20; 2:6). This means that the work of salvation is not ours but His. It is not that we work for God but that He has worked for us. God gives us our position of rest. He brings His Son’s finished work and presents it to us, and then He says to us, “Please sit.”
His offer of salvation cannot, I think, be better expressed than in the words of invitation to the great feast in the parable: “Come; for all things are now ready.”
-Watchman Nee

You are His…by conquest. What a battle He had in us before we were won! How long He laid siege to our walls against Him. But we have become the conquered captives of His omnipotent love. Thus chosen, purchased, and subdued, the rights of our divine Possessor are inalienable.
-C.H. Spurgeon

The Palms of His Hands

See, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; Isaiah 49:16

When God looks at the palms of His hands what does He see? He sees you!

Let the following words from C.H. Spurgeon encourage you today…

God keeps His promise a thousand times, but the trial makes us doubt Him. He never fails. He is never a dry well. Yet, we are as continually vexed with anxieties, molested with suspicions, and disturbed with fears as if our God were the mirage of the desert…you are written on the palms of His hands. It does not say, “your name.” The name is there, but that is not all: I have inscribed you.” Absorb the fullness of this! Everything about you and all that concerns you have I put there. Will you ever say again that your God has forsaken you, since He has inscribed you on His own palms?

Growth

It is said that a mother found her small boy standing beside a tall sunflower, with his feet stuck in the ground. When she asked, “What are you doing?” he naively answered, “Why, I am trying to grow to be a man.”

His mother laughed heartily at the idea of his being planted in the ground in order to grow like the sunflower. Then, patting him gently on the head, she said, “Why, Harry, that is not the way to grow. You can never grow bigger by trying. Just come right in and eat enough good food and have plenty of play and you will soon grow to be a man without trying so hard.”

Harry’s mother was right. There could not be a better answer to the question: “How do the lilies grow?” than Hannah Whitehall Smith’s comment, “They grow without trying.”

We live continually on His life, being nourished, fed and constantly filled with His Spirit and presence and all the fullness of His imparted life.
-A.B. Simpson

A Few Quotes

Let me tell you what real surrender is. It is simply resting in the love of God, as a little baby rests in its mother’s arms. –Fenelon

We are not often called to great sacrifice, but daily we are presented with the chance to make small ones—a chance to make someone cheerful, a chance to do some small thing to make someone comfortable or contented, a chance to lay down our petty preferences or cherished plans. This requires us to relinquish something—our own convenience or comfort, our won free evening, our warm
fireside, or even our habitual shyness, reserve or pride. –Elisabeth Elliot

A Few Quotes

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Creator calls a butterfly.
–Elisabeth Elliot

When we have nothing to keep, we have nothing to lose—that is freedom.
–Elisabeth Elliot

Fear God and become fearless.
–Elisabeth Elliot

Wait Upon the Lord

Wait for the promise of the Father. Acts 1:4

Tarry at a promise till God meets you there. He always returns by way of His promise. –unknown

From Fenelon...

Live, as it were, on trust. All that is in you, and all that you are, is only loaned to you. Make use of it according to the will of Him who lends it, but never regard it for a moment as your own. -Fenelon

If you would truly derive profit from the discovery of your imperfections, neither justify nor condemn your self on their account. Instead, quietly lay them before God, conforming your will to His in all things that you cannot understand, and remaining at peace. For peace is the order of God for every condition, no matter what it is. -Fenelon

Divine Guidance

Here are a few thoughts about Divine Guidance from Oswald Chambers…

“We say—God intends me to be here because I am so useful. Jesus never estimated His life along the line of the greatest use. God puts His saints where they will glorify Him, and we are no judges at all of where that is.” -Oswald Chambers

It’s good to remember that our choices are not based upon what is the easiest thing for us to do, or what is the most comfortable thing for us to do. Our choices are based upon what God’s asks us to do, not about the outcome. Jesus never said “follow success” and He never said “follow failure” He said “follow Me.”

Being Still

In his book Emblems of the Holy Spirit, F.E. Marsh shares the following thoughts:

“In every life
There’s a pause that is better than onward rush,
Better than hewing, or mightiest doing;
‘Tis the standing still at sovereign will.
There’s a hush that is better than ardent speech,
Better than sighing, or wilderness crying;
‘Tis the being still at sovereign will.
The pause and the hush sing a double song
In unison low, and for all time long.
O, human soul. God’s working plan
Goes on, nor needs the aid of man,
Stand still, and see,
Be still, and know.”