Sometimes It Is About Me - C S Lewis

 

Yes, Sometimes It Is About Me....

Words from C S Lewis:

"For it is not humanity in the abstract that is to be saved, but you -- you the individual reader, John Stubbs or Janet Smith. Blessed and fortunate creature, our eyes shall behold Him, and not another's. All that you are, sins apart, is destined, if you let God have His good way, to utter satisfaction. 

Your place in heaven will seem to have been made for you and you alone, because you were made for it -- made for it, stitch by stich, as a glove is made for a hand."  

-- Mere Christianity

Do Not Be Anxious

 "Do not be anxious about anything, but by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus." (Philippians 4:6-7)

Paul is telling us we can take everything -  yes, everything, to God.

Jesus' death brought us back to our Abba Father. Like a loving Dad, He wants us to talk to Him about everything bothering us. Even those things that are obviously the result of our own folly and stupidity.

And we always approach Him "with thanksgiving"! After all, how could anyone approach Him in any other way?

He is with us now and He is coming back soon to make all things right again. 

That kind of peace frees us to love and serve Him wholeheartedly today!

God's Purpose - Thoughts from Oswald Chambers

 

                 GOD'S PURPOSE   

                                           - Thoughts from Oswald Chambers

God's purpose is to make us one with Himself. What shines forth and reveals God in our lives is our genuine, living relationship with Jesus Christ and our unrestrained devotion to Him at all times, in all circumstances.

We are called to live in such a prefect relationship with God that our lives produce a yearning for God in the lives of others, not admiration for ourselves.

Thoughts of myself hinder my usefulness to God.

God's purpose is not to perfect me to make me a trophy in His showcase; He is getting me to a place where He can use me.

Let Him do what He wants .

Don't Stay Weak and Pitiful!- Oswald Chambers

 

                                     Don't Stay Weak and Pitiful                                

                                                        -- Oswald Chambers

"Come to Me and I will give you rest" (Matthew 11:28).

That is, He is saying, 'I will sustain you, causing you to stand firm.'

He is not saying, 'I will put you to bed, hold your hand, and tell you a bedtime story.'

But He is, in essence, saying, 'I will get  you out of bed - out of your listlessness and exhaustion, and out of your condition of being halfdead while you are still alive. I will penetrate you with the spirit of life, and you will be sustained by the perfection of vital activity.'

Yet we become so weak and pitiful and talk about '"suffering" the will of the Lord!

Where is the majestic vitality and power of the Son of God in that?

Embrace the One Who Proved His Claims! Norman Geisler

 

                                  

                       Embrace the One Who Proved His Claims!

I love these words from Norman Geisler, Ph.D, an important scholar, who left us a profound literary legacy in apologetics and philosophy. He died in 2019 at age 87.

He has often been described as a cross between Thomas Aquinas and Billy Graham. He was one of our great thinkers of the 20th and 21st centuries.

When interviewed about his absolute faith in Jesus Christ, he said,

"At the midnight of human ignorance, there are many lights in the sky. Noontime there is only one. And that's Jesus Christ, the Light of the world. Based on the evidence of who He was, there really aren't any competitors.

"So I cast my lot with Him --  not the one who claimed wisdom, Confucius; or the one who claimed enlightenment, Buddha; or the one who claimed to be a prophet, Mohammed -- but the One who claimed to be God in human flesh. The One who declared 'Before  Abraham was born, I am' -- and proved it!"

[ I too cast my lot with Him -  do you?]