When I was young I use to like to walk on the curb of the road.  It was fun to test my agility.  That is simply not a wise behavior along the way of Christ.  If you play along the edges you will stumble.

By His Grace

There are varying degrees of criminals.  But they are all criminals.  There are varying degrees of business success.  But they are all business people.  There are varying degrees of lies.  But they are all lies.

There is a place where the night becomes the day.  There is a place where health becomes sickness.  There is a place where learning becomes doing.  Who can accurately determine those exact places?

Even the nature of things teaches us such things exist.  But if a man would work in the day he looks toward that moment when work can be done.  We tend to notice our sickness long after that moment between health and sickness has passed.  And who can say, “The moment has appeared!  I now understand enough to be able to do.”

How many have put their trust on that pivotal moment?  That moment when we are once captive to sin and given our release to serve the Lord comes.  The wise move far past that moment into a much richer ground.  Sadly, many reach that moment like a ground hog might pop his head above ground a moment and go back to his digging.  It’s so much better to reach that moment and push away from our old ways.  If we have entered “The Way”, why don’t we keep that striving going so we can make a serious distance?

It’s not those who know about the Lord Jesus who will be saved.  Even the demons know about Him.  It’s those who obey what they learn who are being saved.

“Pope John Paul II’s blood stolen from church in Italy.”  So the title of the article says.  And there is another article which describes this theft as satanic in nature.  The incident made me chuckle.  I wonder, “How can satan steal from satan?  They just moved it from one place in his house to another.”

To those Christians who are not enthralled at the salvation in Christ Jesus:

If you do not find yourself amazed at your place before the Father in Heaven because of the work of Christ Jesus, you either are not aware of the full story behind Christianity or you are not aware of your own sinful past.  Even 30 years has not diminished the wonder within me at the following verse: 9 “The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world.  10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him.  11 He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.  12 Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—  13 children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.” (John 1)

If a man, who is 30 years old, has spent every Sunday of his life in a church, he has logged over 3,100 hours of training.  What skills is there among men that requires that much training before a man is allowed to do his work?  Yet there are many who have logged far more time and still do not apply themselves to the work of saving souls.

I do not say this to condemn.  It is not my place to judge.  I am just amazed, for I had never thought of it in those terms before.

By His Grace

When the Lord tells us not to worry or be anxious, he is not telling us to live as dead fish.  Our body has adrenaline for a reason.  There is nothing sinful about the quickening of a mind.  And the protection of our skin is often necessary to perform the tasks we are asked to do.

But adrenaline has a temporary use.  It is not wise to tap into it continually.  Rest and sleep are also functions of our body.

To push our minds to the very edge of sanity is not wise either.  Functionality and creativity are stifled when we work too hard.

Protect your body as is necessary.  But let us remember to leave room for faith.

Above all trust the Lord.  Live your life with joy.  He has promised to take care of you.  And we believe he cannot lie.

By His Grace