Character and Conduct – 28 March – Invalids
Their weak voices spoke gospels. The hands they seemed to clasp were really clasping theirs.
Their weak voices spoke gospels. The hands they seemed to clasp were really clasping theirs.
This is a great challenge for we who walk the way of faith. The more we walk, the more miracles happen, the more we are tempted to think we are miracle workers. The Baptist knew this was a dangerous path and always aimed to be small instead of the next big thing.
THE preservation of health is a duty. Few men seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
WHEN we are out of sorts things get on our nerves, the most trifling annoyances assume the proportions of a catastrophe. It is a sure sign that we need rest and fresh air.
Often, when presented with the challenges brought to us by the anawim, the little poor ones, of God we hesitate to help. We can be tempted to question their motives in the middle of their distress. How many times have the words, ‘But do they really need it’ been spoken about those who queue for food and other help outside churches?
The duty of physical health and the duty of spiritual purity and loftiness are not two duties; they are two parts of one duty
Fierce weather has a way of shaking the fidgets out of my system. Not just the cobwebs of life but the things that I’ve been clinging on to for no good reason other than they are mine and nobody else’s; and such things always weigh me down instead of setting me free.
for there may be as much of God’s will in minor things, as much of God’s will in taking good bread and pure water, as in keeping a good conscience or living a pure life.
EVERY Christian is the servant of men, always and everywhere, without respect to the distinctions of sex, or class, or nationality, or creed.
However, we can’t always blame the world around us for the noise within us. Sometimes we just don’t want to listen, or more correctly we want our voice to be the only one speaking.