Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord
READ, LINGER, PROCESS…
I seem to hear the call of the wild in the impatient wind, and I yearn to connect with both mysteries.
Even more as I see the northern lights, I long to merge into the beauty and the wonder of the splendorous—to be immersed and filled until we become one, flashing forth to and from eternity, coming and going in the forever world of God’s glory.
It is one thing to see the beauty of light from a wooded mountaintop, and another to ride on the wings of changing flashes as they go forth and away, but coming again, forever to stay.
The abstract world is so non-human. As I seem to be approaching the light of my imaginings, I am passing from fantasies to realities. I am perhaps on my final voyage to the great realities of the mysterious spiritual fantasies of my childhood and adulthood.
Perhaps imagining is becoming reality when the places and faces and characters of my childhood are beginning to reach out.
D. L. Moody once said, “Be filled daily (with God, His Word, and the Spirit) because we are always ‘leaking.'” Living in the Spirit is walking in the Spirit and fellowshipping—it’s the intimacy and authentic relationship we have with God that is truly filling (Galatians 5:22).
Truth keeps us free; untruth becomes slavery; it is addictive.
Corrie Ten Boom said, “Jesus is all you need—you will realize this when He is all you have.”
It is not what we have done or are doing for God, it is what God has done and is doing for us, through His Son, by the empowerment of the Holy Spirit. And praise the Lord for that.
Death waits ahead and there is no turning back.
As the blooming flowers attract the bees, addictions lure you in, then spit you out.
Man’s highest good is found in Christ.
Each person has eternity in their heart.
Only Christ can provide true peace, joy, love, and wisdom.
Ambition is not the road to happiness, for the end thereof is emptiness. The beginning and the trail to the end of wisdom must be with God. The vanities of life point to God.
Wisdom is viewing life from divine perspective, therefore give God the credit for life and obey his ordinances. This is the whole duty of man.
God’s perspective is above the sun. All the iniquities and injustices shall be evened out. All the wisdom under the sun is vanity without God.
The cycles of life shall repeat until Christ returns—know the cycles and watch for Christ.
It is a lonely and dangerous thing to lose touch with God and His Word. When we close our eyes, turn our backs, and close our ears to God’s voice, we begin a walk down a perilous road.
The earth is a spiritual battleground. It became one when Adam disobeyed.
God is faithful in mercy, faithful in discipline, and faithful in judgment. His love is faithful. His truth is trustworthy. Let God define you.
All quotes are by C. S. Craig unless otherwise indicated.