Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord
READ, LINGER, PROCESS…
Am I building God up… or myself?
The storytellers of Scripture are more than storytellers, they are messengers of God.
The classroom is in the stillness of the soul as the Holy Spirit speaks, teaches, convicts, and assures the believer of eternal things… with the voice of silence atomic.
Truth is not a function of one’s opinion or perspective, it is not based on culture or education; it is not a matter of personal choices. In other words, truth is never relative—it is a relationship with God. God is a person; truth is a person. Reality and truth cannot be changed as both come from God. To be anti-realistic is to be anti-God. Therefore, I am a realist.
A relativist is self-contradictory. Therefore relativism is just another false ideology. Contradiction: “It’s true that there is no truth.” Sincere belief does not make truth truth any more than sincere belief makes untruth truth—truth is absolute and therefore applicable to everyone, with no exceptions.
Relativism will always be selective, and a matter of personal views, such as God’s existence, sexual morality, or convenience—a personal agenda. Relativism serves the conscience and the lust-patterns of the human sin nature—the soul’s appetites and the cravings of the flesh. Relativism is another false religion that contradicts God and truth.
All about us the leaves tremble in the unseen winds of God. Evidence of God is all around us. The universe was created for our benefit and for God’s glory. Creation—all of it—is God’s proof of His existence. All around us we can observe God’s magnificence in the intricate inter-dependent functions of creation. It is man who caused himself to be separated from God. God, in foreknowledge, created the universe and all it contains so we could delight in our God.
God incarnated (became man) to die for us, in our place, so we could delight in Him. All about us are the mysteries of God, waiting to be discovered. Only man can appreciate creation—only man can question. Only God has all the answers. Because God is both Creator and Savior, only God is worthy of our worship. Jesus Christ is the monumental guidepost that lights the trail through history.
Life is but a walking, dancing shadow that struts upon the stage… then is seen no more. The candle burns and then it dies in the wind.
Confession is the broom that sweeps clean the heart and restores the soul.
It is common to hear about inferiority, but it is superiority that causes all the problems of man, and it came into our thinking with the fall. Self became arrogantly important. Arrogance is ignorance—it is right and wrong; good and evil in the wrong hands (mind). Disobedience turned respect into arrogant disrespect. Good and evil, right and wrong, the two mutually exclusive concurrences in human nature
I suppose arrogance limits knowledge because it hinders reality by the ignorance and belligerence of prideful self in the expressions of thought—our very existence is predicated on imitating God.
We have positive and negative in our nature because we have knowledge of both. The question is: Where do we spend our thinking?
If we can learn to think and imagine at the same time, we can discover the unthinkable.
When a thinker writes from memory, what he writes has its own life—a quality of movement all its own.
There are two searches in life: the search for observable an unobservable truth.
Along with language, depravity is the most human thing about being human.** When your body wears out, where will you live? In other words, where will your soul, the real you, spend eternity? This is serious stuff. Don’t slough it off—you can know for certain.
“Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved” (Acts 16:31).
All quotes are by C. S. Craig unless otherwise indicated.