Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord
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God offers liberty to the captive, freedom to the prisoner, calm for the troubled soul, comfort to those who mourn, peace where there is only despair.
We as believers are made righteous trees, ones planted by God. Our purpose is to glorify God in ambassadorship (Isaiah 61:3c).
The Spirit of the Lord is upon us and fills us. He will never leave us nor forsake us.
There should be no debate regarding the obvious fact that as homo-sapiens, we are beings with volition created to seek and fellowship with truth, in spite of our limitations. It is this inherent desire for God that we all need to admit to ourselves. It is this need that points us back to God. If anyone is separated from God, it is by their choice. God revealed Himself in history through His Son Jesus Christ—God’s witness of His invisible self. Then Christ rose from the dead to give eternal life to all who would believe (John 3:15-18,36; 14:6; Acts 4:12).
All we who believe have a vacuum in our heart that can not be filled even though God is always filling. We can never get enough, it seems.
The secularist wages war between reason and faith, but they can never answer the need in mankind for God. Reason does not even know its reason.
The latter days of the end times has always been imminent.
One of the distinctive aspects of Biblical Hebrew and Christian faith is that they allow little accommodation for elements of eastern religions. Salvation cannot be earned by an ascetic life, it can only be received as a gift, by faith alone in God’s work of redemption. It is God reaching down to man, not man reaching up to God.
Life deserves respect. God as Giver of Life and Salvation deserves respect.
Ritualism and escape into myth are man’s idea for worship of countless divinities. Christ is not among those numbers because Christ is the First and the Last—the Alpha and Omega—the only true and living God.
God deserves respect, not rebellion.
Satan, the master weaver, is master of words. Yet he cannot be loyal to his own words. Rhetoric is Satan’s power to fool and his weakness to believe his own foolishness. Satan has succeeded in deceiving himself. He is the master politician. Satan must think he was wronged by Christ in order to justify his rebellion. He cannot accept his own created because he sees himself as deserving to be God over himself, and God. Satan believes his own rhetoric. The fall of Satan was and is an exaggerated view of himself. Sound familiar?
The planets, moon, stars, and galaxies move by God immutable laws. They bear witness to God’s creation breath.
Christianity possesses in its literature incomparable treasures, an inheritance that must be reclaimed by each successive generation. To be passed on it must be studied and appreciated, beginning with the Holy Bible. Through every century since Adam, God has raised up leaders, pastors, and teachers to proclaim the gospel in every generation.
We must not miss even one generation.
When I think of destiny, I trust my Savior in my fields of grace. When I think of fate without faith, I think of a nightmare march.
Reversionism (“backsliding”) eventually dims the light of illumination that shines into our future—it dims our hope in Messiah. Uncertainty, even gloom and depression, can overtake even the strongest of reversionistic believers. This darkness can be dispelled by naming our doubts, our transgressions, our disobedience to the Father of Light through the Son of Light (1 John 1:9).
To men who seek truth, the spirit of inspiration will fill them.
Thinking of ourselves more highly than we ought is a form of idolatry. In extreme cases it becomes devilish when it becomes a god—lording ourselves over or bullying others is making ourselves a god over others, and nothing is more devilish.
Christ created the earth as the focal point in the universe, therefore Earth is the heart of creation. Christ filled the earth with beauty and the air with music that sings the songs of the Father’s love. All creation declares the glory of God.
All quotes are by C. S. Craig unless otherwise indicated.