Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord
READ, LINGER, PROCESS…
I suppose we could say that matter is most real to our senses. But, having said that, matter only substitutes for the unseen spiritual reality we cannot see while in the flesh. Therefore our deepest longings that go unfulfilled are for the resurrection of, or restoration of, our original senses (Hebrews 11:1).
It is the frivolous that causes us to look for perfection. Peace and joy is what true reality is about. Justice guards righteousness here on earth and in eternity. I have tasted of this eternity because Christ dwells within me and the taste is inspiring. Have you tried the taste test? Believe and receive.
Salvation is personal between Christ and each individual. Christ is the reality of life, living in the believer—this reality is eternal, and the believer’s possession forever.
A peace treaty between two countries is like the democrats and republicans agreeing to work together—each party defrauds the other and themselves.
Freedom should be guided by love, guarded by justice, enjoyed by giving and sharing our faith and our bounties.
Truth is suppressed by untruth, and man in his self-righteousness, arrogance, rebellion and legalism is without excuse. Why? → Romans 1:20-25, 26-32, 2:1-16.
Man walks in the futility of his own mind (Ephesians 4:17). Man, by going after worthless things in the world, becomes worthless… remains worthless (Jeremiah 2:5).
Try doing good or being nice to those who hate you. Even more, try doing good and being nice to those you hate (Luke 6:27).
From the chief of us to the least of us, all are sinners. Sin is the thing that weighs us down. The righteousness of God gives us wings. The pride of life is the pride of death in sheep’s clothes.
God delivered unto us the vine of love and salvation and He made of us branches of buds that continuously bloom. He causes the rain and gave the fountain for all who would freely drink.
Who is able to distinguish love but the giver and the receiver. Love cannot be separated from God. He loved always. He loved first, else we could not know love, we could not love him. Listen, always listen for his whispers of love.
The Lord and I are joined together and no man can put asunder. He is immortal—I am immortal. Because He ever liveth, I will live forever with him.
His pleasure is our reward. His Spirit teaches and we learn for all knowledge, all truth comes from God. He has written that I might read. His nostrils have breathed and spoken and I have both seen and heard and breathed His breath.
There is no change of God’s mind. No change of His dwelling place. No repentance in His ways. There is no place for aggression in heaven, no rush, no timetable, no end of heaven.
If suddenly all things visible shall perish, if all things touchable have no feel and vanish, if there is no more sound when all becomes silent, if I cannot stop to smell the flowers when my breath is gone from me, then I have passed to be face to face with my Savior and my God and the pleasures of this life I remember no more. My Tabernacle is in heaven.
Anger and aggression crawl with evil, from evil. Peace and joy flow from God. Christ became like me that I might be like Him. I have trusted His finished work—I am no longer a night crawler. I am in the world but I am not of this world—my citizenship is in heaven.
All quotes are by C. S. Craig unless otherwise indicated.