Thoughts

Scripture teems with illustrations of how God cares, and how short-sighted man is in looking at events happening to him. Yet with such a wealth of illustration, how little we are prepared to bring God into our calculations ...

Wonderful words of comfort to the tried and tested and troubled one, who walks in the fear of the Lord ...

This Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven, shall thus come in the manner in which ye have beheld Him going into heaven ...

Twice in the book of Proverbs (14:12 and 16:25) we learn that man’s judgment as to the right way is not reliable. What seems right to him ends in disaster and death.

God answers prayer. He answers it exactly the same way we would if we had infinite wisdom, love and power.

God wins His greatest victories through apparent defeats. Very often the enemy seems to triumph for a season ...

Faith is implicit trust in the Word of God. It is confidence in the trustworthiness of God.

We do not ask, and therefore we do not receive. We do not knock, and so the door is not opened to us. We do not seek, and thus we do not find. 

The challenge to the missionary does not come from the fact that people are difficult to bring to salvation, that backsliders are difficult to reclaim, or that there is a barrier of callous indifference ...

God often uses suffering and difficulties to educate us and make us more like Christ...