Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord
READ, LINGER, PROCESS…
I find it interesting that religious leaders, from the Pope on down in the chain of command, will not stand up to the untruths of their religion because these rituals without reality flatter their ego and ambitions.
Forms of religious rituals do not save, nor keep saved, nor do they change (or pay the price for) our sinful character.
Having the knowledge of Scripture does not give you eternal life. Nor does “believing in God.” Satan “believes in God” and trembles, and he’s still going to hell. We are told to “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ” and His finished work on the cross on our behalf (death, burial, and resurrection) to be saved. There is no other name given among men whereby we must be saved.
If suffering has no value, then Christ died in vain. If Jesus had not risen from the dead, then His suffering was in vain.
Because of good and evil, we will struggle, we will suffer and be afflicted.
I am a seed-planter. What is God doing through me?
I am a beggar who found the bread of life. Now, I show other beggars the bread of life. It is up to them to take it.
We neither impress God nor depress God. God is always the same—immutable (never changing).
God’s revelations to us are primarily through the Scriptures, and the Son by the Holy Spirit.
As we grow in grace, we outgrow this world.
Wisdom learns respect for God and God’s Word.
The Lord’s counsel is a living spring unto eternal life.
Do not indulge too much luxury, for you may not enjoy its expense.
According to Scripture, heaven and hell exist. This life here on earth is the only heaven the unbeliever will ever experience, and the only hell the believer will ever experience.
The believer should not be so earthly minded that he loves the world more than the hope of Heaven.
Heaven can only be accessed by the born again believer, washed in the blood of the Lamb.
Through God’s perfectly meritorious work and man’s non meritorious faith, God totally removes the barrier between fallen man and himself, reconciling the believer to himself forever.
Until you trust the cross of Christ’s suffering and death for you, in your place, you will never be any closer to Heaven.
All quotes are by C. S. Craig unless otherwise indicated.