Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord
READ, LINGER, PROCESS…
The church in America today needs more than revival, it needs Bible and re-Bible – meat, not milk.
The regrets of the future are avoidable today. We can, right now, change our future to one of no regrets.
The void in our souls is God-shaped. Everyone has eternity in their heart, put there by God.
As believer-priests, we represent God to others, and others to God. We are to conduct ourselves as God’s people, lighting the way to God. We are to help others find the cross of Christ and kneel with them to receive Christ as personal Savior.
If it were possible to remove suffering, aging, aggression, and punishment from life, people would have no need for God.
Christ is the Messiah-Savior, the fullness of God who fills everything in every way (Philippians 2:9-11; Matthew 24:30; Ephesians 1:22-23).
Hell—for fallen, unregenerate mankind. Perhaps the existence of hell is to separate unbelievers from God. It is prepared for mankind, it is eternal separation from God, it is God separating Himself from those who, in their lifetime, chose to separate from God. It is God honoring their choice, now and forever.
Lake of Fire—for Satan and fallen angels. Prepared for the devil and fallen angels.
The first creation of angel and man eventually rejected God. Both creatures thought independently of God. Both of God’s created worlds were given volition (personal choice), the freedom to choose self or God. Both chose self.
So, what is your choice? Nothing has changed since the fall of man. Everything in life has its rewards, its price, its required payment.
The Bible is more than a book that helps us in search of truth, it is the truth in search of us—the Bible is God’s. The Bible is not just a search for truth, it is much more. It is the search in truth.
How many of us truly know the person enclosed within us? How many of us know the person inside of us has fallen on their knees and received the Christ of salvation from the self we are a slave to?
Self righteousness is the warping of the soul that can become irreversible scar tissue damage.
Belief is the cadence which turns heavens song into a symphony of life.
Hypocrites and busybodies press their nose against the glass that the world sees right through.
Evolution may be compared to a vagrant without a visible nor provable means of support.
Prejudice favors both truth and untruth, and everybody is somewhere in between. You cannot prove untruth, yet it is all around us. Unbelievers state that believers need to prove God and they will believe, but God himself designed the heavens and creation as His own proof of His own existence. Then He used men to record His infallible Word, and men still do not believe the truth. Why is it easier to believe a lie? Because it is easier, even more desirable, for us to remain on the throne of self.
Man’s denial of God is due to his moral depravity and arrogant disrespect, not his intellectual incapacity (Hebrews 11:6).
Abiding in Christ is defined as obedience and walk in fellowship, meaning sins confessed, resulting in intimacy and following the leading control of the Holy Spirit. If we love, we obey, we abide.
All quotes are by C. S. Craig unless otherwise indicated.