Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord
READ, LINGER, PROCESS…
We must be taught to do good, taught not to do wrong. We lust (i.e. a need for attention and praise, etc.). We need to unlearn the self and learn God.
If the truth hurts, suffer for a while.
Life is a checkout line… and no one wants to go first.
Live in truth; live diligently.
He who knew no sin became human to pay our sin debt, that we may have His righteousness and live with Him and Our Heavenly Father forever. Amen.
The Bible is relative to every generation because human nature is the same in every generation.
The Gospel of John records this hyperbolic comment in Chapter 21:25: “And there are also many other things that Jesus did, which if they were written one by one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that would be written. Amen.” But of all the information we have on the life of the greatest human who ever lived, we know very little, not even much about what He looked like. We do know what He came to do and we know He completed His mission perfectly.
Someone once responded to an unbeliever: “Sit down and tell me about the kind of ‘god’ you do not believe in. I probably don’t believe in that ‘god’ either.”
To me, people do not reject God as much as what they know about God—God has been distorted throughout history because people do not give credence to the Scriptures which proclaim Him. What a shame.
Mankind obscures the true image of God as perfectly represented by Christ. Too much “greed for gold” and “prosperity gospel” has covered the true figure of God.
Mankind should not have to sift his way through all the denominations to find Jesus because the church is supposed to be the light that reveals Christ. Jesus is who you want your God to be! A properly functioning church, undivided, would look like Christ.
The free will choice of every person ever born is this: Believe or don’t believe. Satan is the master seducer—the Trickster. He loves to influence our thought patterns, persuading us that the world has more to offer (money, power, fame, sex, possessions, knowledge, etc.) than God does (Matthew 4:8,9). We are blessed beyond description because of Christ Hebrews 10:12-14; Philippians 2:5-11; 1 Peter 2:4-7 – fantastic!). We are precious to God in Christ. We must live our relationship in Him with passion.
If only we could keep our soul on bended knee, what would the world be? Only love can beget love and its perfect image, it’s perfect filling.
I watched the purple mountains’ majesty fold into the yellow-orange sunset, and soon darkness was the only remaining witness.
Cleverness should remain empty, leaving only truth to fill the void.
Many of the very learned are not willing to become a child, and therefore cannot find truth, never able to taste life and immortality.
If you were able to see Jesus during his earthly walk, he would not have appeared any different than others, but somehow His presence, His being, would radiate some undefined feeling—one whose very essence is and was life, light, and love. The radiance of his being would fill all the area of his presence thereabout—the height, the depth, and the width of all that is. To see Christ in our midst, we would become transfixed by the intimacy of life in Christ.
God is ideal, immutable, undeniable, incomprehensible, without prejudice, believable, trustworthy, omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent, merciful, holy, love, and veracity.
Before we ask of Jesus, he hears. More than we can ask, he gives well yet we ask.
If your life is unstable, your thinking is unstable first.
Unbelievers live in darkness, they look for light in every way conceivable except the person and cross of Christ.
The ultimate thinking of man is human viewpoint and falls short of God
All quotes are by C. S. Craig unless otherwise indicated.