Thursday, July 16, 2009

Miscellaneous Observations and Reflections

Miscellaneous Observations and Reflections

Doubts are the beginnings of darkness. --Harold F. Lohse

If we do not walk in the light, our children will bear our whoredoms. --Sam Nugent

We have all eternity to celebrate our victories, but only one short hour before sunset in which to win them. --Robert Moffat

The law of mutation belongs to a fallen world, but God is immutable, and in Him men of faith find eternal permanence. --A. W. Tozer

“Nadab and Abihu will rise up in the judgment and confess that it is important to do what God says, exactly the way that He says to do it” (cf. Lev. 10:1-3). --Adapted from Given O. Blakely

Eternity has no gray hairs! The flowers fade, the heart withers, man grows old and dies, the world lies down in the sepulcher of ages, but time writes no wrinkles on the brow of eternity. --Reginald Heber

“From God’s own lips Moses gets an account of all that is deepest in His disposition and relations toward man. It can be seen in this revelation of Himself that mercy rules in the character of God” (see Exod. 34:6-7). --Source Uncertain

With regard to those who are outside of Christ, they are “not a people” (I Pet. 2:10), meaning that God does not approve of them in their natural state and does not acknowledge them as belonging to Himself. --Expanded from Fred O. Blakely

David and his afflictions may be seen in Psalm 22 in a very limited sense, “but as the star is concealed by the light of the sun, he who sees Jesus (here in this Psalm) will probably neither see, nor care to see, David.” --C. H. Spurgeon

Man Remains the Same. We who travel today by automobiles and jet airliners are exactly the same kind of beings as those who rode in oxcarts and later in stagecoaches. The great facts of existence remain the same in all generations of time---“birth, death, sin and sorrow, hope and fear. A picture is not altered because you put it in a different frame.” Man continues unchanged in his essential nature; hence, he has the same need of the divine Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, that men of all ages have had. --Expanded from Fred O. Blakely

A Wearying Effect. The Lord Jesus Christ is to believing men and women “the shadow of a great rock in a weary land” (Isa. 32:2). If this world, therefore, does not have a definite wearying effect on those who make a profession of faith, they must examine themselves to see whether or not they actually are in the faith (cf. II Cor. 13:5). This priceless “Shadow” of refreshing means absolutely nothing to those who do not find themselves being wearied, and occasionally worn out (cf. Dan. 7:25), by the incessant contrariness and oppositions of this present evil world. --editor@banner.org

Not a Small Thing. “The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this Man give us His flesh to eat?” (Jn. 6:52). From this remonstrance it is evident that a giant wall of unbelief stood between these Jews and their reception of the words of the Savior. This, of course, was their response to our Lord’s famous discourse on the Bread of life. Let us give thanks, therefore, wherever we behold people rejoicing in Christ’s death in their behalf, believing right well that it was for them that He died. Such confidence as this is not to be taken for granted and must not be regarded as a small thing. --editor@banner.org

At What are You Looking? The Apostle Paul, in Second Corinthians 4:18, expressed in passing the gazing posture of both himself and all the saints. He said: “we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.” This is the basic stance of all those who are living by faith. Faith rightly judges that eternal things have an incomparably greater value than temporal things and, therefore, it is so often as possible preoccupied with them. “Faith is the substance of things” (Heb. 11:1) which shall far outlast all the things which can be seen with these mortal eyes. To the believer in Christ faith imparts substance to the eternal things, and enables him or her to get a fervent grasp on them. --editor@banner.org

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