Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord
READ, LINGER, PROCESS…
Death terminates the necessities and accessories of life. In death’s grip, life disintegrates, but in Christ’s hand, death has no power, no sting, we’re a passing thing or we are naught.
Looking up from beneath the trees, one is enthralled in the shimmers of happy glimmers—my little family and thoughts of aspen and birch in Colorado.
Appearing to entrap the moon, the willow tree became a web of winding tresses.
The envious are like snakes hiding in the grass, only to bite the heel of the envied who caused the grass to grow.
The unbelieving intellectual is but a termite attacking his own foundation. The acid of their ridicule eats away at their heart, until they devour their own reason.
It is important to live in truth because God is Truth living among us.
The church is to be a lifeboat for a world sinking in darkness.
If the church is the lighthouse shining in the night, the culture will see it from the darkness.
If Jesus were as much in demand as Savior and Lord as He is a “genie,” think of what the world could be like. Perhaps we would be a world full of forgiven people, a world full of givers instead of takers.
The fault with many people is perceiving themselves without fault, but that’s their fault. Self-righteousness.
The essence of pride and arrogance is “I will!” Not God’s will, my will—thinking independently of God, “I will…”.
Satan was evicted from Eden the Garden of God. Man was evicted from the Garden of Eden.
The believer will have trials on the trail of life so that God can lead us victoriously home to our eternal reward.
When believers fall, we momentarily let go of God’s hand, but God never lets go of ours.
Suffering, trials, and temptations must be endured so that each believer can learn to appreciate God in this life. Our appreciation for God becomes magnified in this life and glorified in His presence.
I hate testing and suffering and sin, but all three make it easier to see God.
Worldliness is the experiences of man without God, against God. The world is deceived by itself from within and without. The world is deceived, the believer in Christ is received.
Are you deceived or received?
The addiction of cigarettes, alcohol, drugs, sex, lust, and the world are deception on the road of destruction to destruction.
Define corruption and describe the world: Derailed, deceived, divided, dangerous, defiled, destructive, deranged, and depraved.
All quotes are by C. S. Craig unless otherwise indicated.