Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord
READ, LINGER, PROCESS…
Life is fleeting, like the wind and evaporation—short-lived and quickly passing.
We search for truth and knowledge, but are never filled—that is what eternity is all about. Time is lived for filling, eternity for fullness. Life should be a humbling experience as we discover and learn truth. Reference Proverbs 30:14.
Self-gratification never satisfies the soul. Only Christ can satisfy the deep longing we all have. Be at peace. Reference John 14:27; Romans 5:1.
Hebrew wisdom literature encircles points of issue from viewpoints of expression, so as to encapsulate or capture its meaning. Viewpoint of expressions are complimentary for meditation and reflection.
Conspiracy always leads to injustice.
I find researching life and knowledge fascinating; I’ll have to await death to search it out fully.
There are uncountable truths, yet only one.
Of all the truths mankind knows, few compare to the many.
I yearn to know all the knowledge we lost in disobedience—what we lost when Adam and Eve sinned and fell.
God, our Creator, gave us truth; we added untruth.
Childhood trauma manifests in adult frustration, even neurotic symptoms which interfere with proper adaptation to people and situations.
Reason is the guide for virtue and the guard of passion. Bible doctrine holds in check a calmness of thought, thwarting the appetite of lust.
The commandments simply point out the weaknesses of human nature. Reason acknowledges folly. Integrity both admits and restrains. Integrity demands decency, honor, dignity, truth, and respect. Character and moral stability are governed by integrity of the soul.
Lust is best defined as the fires of desires.
Never quenched is the parental love and yearning I hold for my children. My love for them, like God’s love for us, is unconquerable. I speak of father-love in Christ.
Study the works of Christ, rejoice every day in life. Study the words of life, rejoice every day in Christ.
Everything I gain and possess of this world I will eventually lose. “I count all things as loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord” (Philippians 3:8). Read the book of Philippians over and over—it is fantastic.
For in God our Savior, we believers live, move, breathe, and have our being. Isn’t that something?
Wise are you when you reach a point on maturity’s road where you can read Scripture and listen to the “soundless sermon” of the Holy Spirit.
Jesus is the only person who ever lived that was completely isolated, separated, and alone from God when our sins were poured out on Him.
When you look upon a river, remember that the river of life flows from the throne of God in Heaven—His river offers eternal life.
Pray without ceasing is a continuous, quiet conversation with God in thought.
All quotes are by C. S. Craig unless otherwise indicated.