Relationships bring absolute joy, deep sorrow and everything in-between. We, in our fallen state, devote ourselves much more to self interest than to the one and only endeavor that will ever matter. (Matt 22:37-40)

QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.” C. S. Lewis

Rather like a child who longs to be a “grown-up”, we can’t help feeling melancholy, at times, over the slow progress in attaining the full measure of the fruits of the Spirit.

QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Pride, in fact, is a greater sin than drunkenness or whoredom; and humility is as necessary as sobriety and chastity” Richard Baxter

Prayer is for our own benefit as God certainly does not need the information. There are four major functions of prayer that can be easily remembered by “ACTS”: Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving and Supplication.

QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“People who are crucified with Christ have three distinct marks: they are facing only one direction; they can never turn back; and they no longer have plans of their own.” A.W. Tozer

When formulating our “individual” theologies, we must take extreme care not to strip God of his revealed attributes. All too often Almighty YHWH is compromised in favor of considerably less important doctrinal issues.

QUOTE OF THE DAY:
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, “Thy will be done,” and those to whom God says, “All right, then, have it your way.” C. S. Lewis

The “sermon on the mount” testifies to the huge chasm between us and an absolutely righteousness and uncompromising God. There is no reward for pride manifesting as legalism, it completely misses the point.

QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The greater joy is everywhere preceded by the greater pain.” Augustine

We’re bound in the excesses of modernity where our complex life defies attempts to live in simple purity. Put all the junk in the bottom drawer and only open it when absolutely necessary.

QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help Him. I ended up by asking Him to do his work through me.” James Hudson Taylor

The assumed right to the democratic process has become a deep fundamental assumption in contemporary western thinking patterns. So much so that it has undermined our perception of the absolute sovereignty of God.

QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.” C. S. Lewis

Every denomination carries far too much baggage of human tradition and every belief system is corrupted in some way by carnal reasoning. The human mind pollutes every pure thought that enters into it.

QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Let your truth teach me. Let it guard me, and keep me safe to the end. Let it free me from all evil affection and badly ordered love, and I shall walk with You in great freedom of heart.” Thomas Kempis

We must strive after those further ahead, encourage those behind and become the brightest beacon possible for the lost. The more excess baggage you manage to shed the faster your progress will be.

QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I did not mourn my ignorance, but rather was puffed up with knowledge.” Augustine

“Many puzzle themselves about the origin of evil. I’m content to observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape from it, and with this I begin and end”. (John Newton – Former slave ship captain and writer of “Amazing Grace)

QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“ If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.” C. S. Lewis