I invite your attention to a few words found in 1 Cor 9:27: “Lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.”
Paul was too eager and too practical a man to dally with a bogy dread. Since then he intimates that it was his daily fear lest, after having preached to others, he might himself be a castaway, I suppose that there were but few hours in his life when this dread did not haunt him.
“I, even I only, am left a prophet of the Lord.” “I, even I only, am left.” 1 Kings 19:10,14 “Yet will I leave me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal.” 1 Kings 19:18 “Then he mustered...seven thousand.” “Elijah...a man of like passions (nature) with us.” James 5:17 |
It is a gracious thing that, in recording the lives of His most used and representative servants, the Lord has never hidden their weaknesses.
Author of Amazing Grace
The evil of yesterday is gone, that which is appointed for tomorrow is not yet arrived. Would it not be well if we could live with the Lord by the day? This reminds me of a fable.
Read more: One Stick at a Time
How apt we are to forget that this is only a “tenting-time”, and that rest is not permanent here, but elsewhere, further on. We drive our stakes and fasten our tent-cords, and then settle down as though we were quite contented and did not wish to move any further.
Who can estimate the force of a righteous life? Men have little faith in such a force, we know, but it is a force, nevertheless.
Read more: THE SALT OF THE EARTH
(Fresh from the Welch Revival of 1904)
The Power of the revival in South Wales is not of men, but of God. He has been close to us and has shown us the way.
There is no question of creed or of dogma in this movement. The work that is being done has the support, I believe, of all Christian people and Christian churches in our country. I have merely preached the religion of Jesus Christ as I myself have experienced it.
Read more: A Message To The World
That is the question we asked, no doubt, in s spirit of complaint. “If you loved us, Lord, then rescue us.” How soon they began to doubt Him! How soon they were ready to rebel, even though they called Him Master! . . .
Read more: Sinking Ship Does Jesus Care?
And the napkin, that was about His head,not lying with the linen clothes,but wrapped together in a place by itself.John 20:7
Why ‘wrapped together in a place by itself‘? Because Jesus wished to show that He arose calmly: no haste, no hurry, not as if in flight from the tomb, but in solemn triumph and at leisure.
Read more: The Napkin About Christ’s Head
A man was on the side of the road with a large birdcage.A boy noticed that the cage was full of birds of many kinds.“Where did you get those birds?” he asked.
“Oh, all over the place,” the man replied. “I lure them with crumbs and pretend I’m their friend. Then when they are close, I net them and shove them into my cage.”
“And what are you going to do with them now?”
The man grinned, “I’m going to prod them with sticks, and get them really mad so they fight and kill each other. Those that survive, I will kill. None will escape.”
