If we focus more on the gifts than on the Giver, we are guilty of idolatry. If we accept His gifts, but complain about them, we are guilty of ingratitude. If we hoard His gifts and will not share them...
I get the impression that Mordecai misinterpreted Esther’s message. It sounded to him like she was trying to hide her nationality and avoid the responsibility of presenting herself to the king. Had he...
He was a man skilled in communicating God’s truth. Not content with merely declaring facts, Isaiah clothed those facts in striking language that would catch the attention of a people blind and deaf to...
God’s grace is greater than man’s sin and can accomplish God’s best even when men do their worst.
God is not in a hurry. He kept Abraham and Sarah waiting twenty-five years before Issac was born, and Issac and Rebekah waited twenty years for Esau and Jacob, Jacob had to wait fourteen years to get...
Children operate on the basis of feeling, but adults operate on the basis of will. They act because it is right, no matter how they feel.
When we walk by faith, we live on promises, not on explanations.
We must be careful what we do with this gospel, for it is not the invention of men, but the very truth of God.
Tradition tells us that he was a man of prayer, and this explains the emphasis on prayer in his letter. It was said that he prayed so much, his knees were as hard as a camel’s!
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Yes, there are times when obeying God’s will is costly and painful, but not doing God’s will is even more costly and painful.
Work isn’t a curse; it’s an opportunity to use our abilities and opportunities in cooperating with God and being faithful stewards of His creation. After man sinned, work became toil (Gen. 3:17–19), b...
Why does God permit difficulties to come to our lives? Sometimes He has to break us before He can make us. Sometimes He has to reveal to us what we’re really like before He can make us into what He wa...
When you walk by faith, you will claim all that God has for you, but unbelief is always content to settle for something less than God’s best.
When you find yourself sinking in the quicksand, there is little else you can do but cry to the Lord. Sometimes He allows the quicksand experiences to turn you to Him. Wait for God. Acknowledge that H...
When we trust the Son of God, there is no need for intermediary beings between us and heaven!
When we are in times of difficulty and distress, the important thing is not that we get out of it but what we get out of it. Count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testin...
What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? (v. 15). The word harmony here is a musical term. We aren’t even playing in the same orchestra with the unsaved! We aren’t following the same conductor...
Unless we go back to the cross, we can’t go forward in our Christian life.
Try not to become a man of success, said Albert Einstein, but try to become a man of value.