Thoughts

O child of suffering, be thou patient. God has not passed thee over in His providence. Sit not down in despair. Hope on, hope ever...

Many people have a view of the Christian life that is excessively idealistic. They think it should be one uninterrupted series of mountaintop experiences...

"Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus!" The greatest test of an earthly soldier's courage is patient endurance!...

Behold the infinite patience of Jesus! Even among His own disciples, how forbearingly He endured their blindness, their misconceptions and hardness of heart...

Jesus was despised because of the UNWORLDLINESS OF HIS LIFE. His whole life was one ceaseless testimony against the ungodliness of this ungodly world...

We are to be rewarded, not only for work done, but for burdens borne...

There is a limit to our affliction. God sends it and then removes it ...

I do not believe we have even begun to understand the wonderful power there is in being still. We are in such a hurry ...

Are you reading these verses as a child of God who is experiencing a crushing sorrow, a bitter disappointment, or a heartbreaking blow from a totally unexpected place ...

This seemed a strange way for God to prove His favor. “At once”— after what? ...