To have our activities repressed is not a sign of righteousness. Just because your sinful nature obeys your command in the Lord, it does not mean your sinful nature will be saved. The same may well be true of the soul. Just because you do what you are told, though you would constantly rather do … Continue reading
Stupid
I have often been told that the way I perceive the world is different. I’m not talking about my Christian perspectives. People try to put it nicely but in the end they simply say, “You’re just a little different.” I’ve been told that I go about tasks from an entirely different direction. I make so … Continue reading
The spike of peace
Our life can be considered as traveling upon a flat line. What lay to the left is yet to come. What lay to the right is written and sealed. But the spike upon the line is the “now”. What is to come is not. What lays behind is done. Only the moment should be of … Continue reading
The stingy apple tree
If you walk up to an apple tree, do you have to tell the tree you’re hungry? And if you tell the tree you’re hungry, do you have to tell him a long story about why you’re hungry? Isn’t it true that your simple approach is sufficient? And as your hand grasps the Apple and … Continue reading
What’s the odds
If you think about it there’s probably less than 100 million devoted Christians in America. Yet there’s over 300 million people in the population. 100 million may think they are saved. God alone knows. But what of the other 200 million? If the Lord has not written your name in his book of life you … Continue reading
A righteous man
A man is not righteous because he does right things. Is righteous because he himself is righteousness. The good deeds are his children. They are not his identity. He has become a righteous man because righteousness is what he has desired most of all. He has appealed to God through Christ. And he has received … Continue reading
