Whispers of His Power – APRIL 21
Do we ever ask lightly to be forgiven, forgetting the cost of that forgiveness?
Do we ever ask lightly to be forgiven, forgetting the cost of that forgiveness?
The sense of our need is the condition of God’s help.
God give us the soldier spirit, the spirit that thirsts to be more than conqueror.
The only thing that can hinder a life from telling for Him is the mind that puts self in the centre, and the mind that refuses suffering.
If for any good reason we cannot gather our spiritual food on some particular day, God makes it all right. But this does not alter the ordinary rule of daily gathering our daily portion.
I have been making a list of figs, those little things not worth caring about and yet about which we are sometimes tempted to grumble.
Perhaps we shall see the angels first, as I suppose the happy Lazarus did when he was ‘carried by angels’ all the way home. But that will only be the beginning of joy.
Evil seems at present to be terrifically strong, and it seems to be triumphing everywhere. But it is on its way to its end. Good, not evil, will triumph.
The Lord is our Confidence? Shall we say it to our own hearts when they are tempted to fear
the way to show true sympathy is not to pity, but to stand by and strengthen the sufferer to do God’s will.