Silent conflict

 

  After ye were illuminated ye endured a great fight of afflictions

                                                      Heb. 10:32

Our boldness for God before the world must always be the result of individual dealing with God in secret. Our victories over self, and sin, and the world, are always first fought where no eye sees but God’s.… If we have not these secret conflicts, well may we not have any open ones. The outward absence of conflict betrays the inward sleep of the soul.

                                                    F. Whitfield

Samuel G. Hardman and Dwight Lyman Moody, Thoughts for the Quiet Hour (Willow Grove, PA: Woodlawn Electronic Publishing, 1997).

Private wars in private places can be those times we struggle and place the problems and sins of our lives before the throne of God. In those times and places we are brought to a place of knowing the ways of God. It is akin to praying and exalting our Lord behind closed doors.

May the good Lord bless and keep you safe.

Remember to "Always Love The Details."

"Christian"

 

  To every man his work

        Mark 13:34

He does the most for God’s great world who does the best in his own little world.

Selected

Samuel G. Hardman and Dwight Lyman Moody, Thoughts for the Quiet Hour (Willow Grove, PA: Woodlawn Electronic Publishing, 1997).

We bear the name of Christians, but are full of the spirit of worldlings, and our actions are infected with its poison. We secretly seek ourselves, even when we flatter ourselves that God is our only aim, and whilst we undertake to convert the world, we suffer it to pervert us. When shall we begin to study to crucify our passions and die to ourselves, that we may lay a solid foundation of true virtue and establish its reign in our hearts?

John Gilmary Shea, Pictorial Lives of the Saints (New York; Cincinnati; Chicago: Benziger Brothers, 1887), 100.

Today is a day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it. He has redeemed us though we are ever in the world. May the good Lord bless and keep you safe.

Remember to "Always Love The Details."

Obedience and Inheritance

 

8 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to set out for a place that he was to receive as an inheritance; and he set out, not knowing where he was going. 9 By faith he stayed for a time in the land he had been promised, as in a foreign land, living in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. 10 For he looked forward to the city that has foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

The Holy Bible: New Revised Standard Version, Catholic Edition (Washington, DC: National Council of Churches of Christ, 1993), Heb 11:8–10.

Whither he went, he knew not; it was enough for him to know that he went with God. He leaned not so much upon the promises as upon the Promiser. He looked not on the difficulties of his lot, but on the King, eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, who had deigned to appoint his course, and would certainly vindicate Himself. O glorious faith! This is thy work, these are thy possibilities: contentment to sail with sealed orders, because of unwavering confidence in the love and wisdom of the Lord High Admiral: willinghood to rise up, leave all, and follow Christ, because of the glad assurance that earth’s best cannot bear comparison with Heaven’s least.

                                                     F. B. Meyer

Samuel G. Hardman and Dwight Lyman Moody, Thoughts for the Quiet Hour (Willow Grove, PA: Woodlawn Electronic Publishing, 1997).

This post is for the missed post from last night. May the good Lord bless and keep you safe.

Remember to "Always Love The Details."

Will get back on schedule next eek.

 sorry everyone. It has been a rough week. After having my computer go down for several days we had high winds for several days and our electric was on and off on a regular basis. I will post next week on time the Lord willing.

Bessings and Love to all.

Today is the day

 

  As many as I love I … chasten

        Rev. 3:19

I once saw a dark shadow resting on the bare side of a hill. Seeking its cause I saw a little cloud, bright as the light, floating in the clear blue above. Thus it is with our sorrow. It may be dark and cheerless here on earth; yet look above and you shall see it to be but a shadow of His brightness whose name is Love.

                                                    Dean Alford

Samuel G. Hardman and Dwight Lyman Moody, Thoughts for the Quiet Hour (Willow Grove, PA: Woodlawn Electronic Publishing, 1997).

Today is all we are guaranteed and even that may not be a full day. 

The shadow of reality is sometimes fleeting. Our Lord's love is a light on our hearts and souls. It is the warmth and bright ray of hope in our lives.  

May the good Lord bless and keep you safe. Remember to "Always Love The Details."

Lost Computer

 I lost my computer yesterday. Got the blue screen of death. It is in the shop. I will continue posting when it is fixed (if it can be fixed).

How you live.

  Love not the world        1 John 2:15

Love it not, and yet love it. Love it with the love of Him who gave His Son to die for it. Love it with the love of Him who shed His blood for it. Love it with the love of angels who rejoice in its conversion. Love it to do it good, giving your tears to its sufferings, your pity to its sorrows, your wealth to its wants, your prayers to its miseries, and to its fields of charity, and philanthropy, and Christian piety, your powers and hours of labor. You cannot live without affecting it, or being affected by it. You will make the world better, or it will make you worse.

God help you by His grace and Holy Spirit so to live in the world as to live above it, and look beyond it; and so to love it that when you leave it, you may leave it better than you found it.

                                                           Guthrie

Samuel G. Hardman and Dwight Lyman Moody, Thoughts for the Quiet Hour (Willow Grove, PA: Woodlawn Electronic Publishing, 1997).

The world is not to be loved but we must still live in it. We must love our God and live as though we are in heaven, with our eyes on what will be and not on where we are. Guthrie said it all and 1 John 2:15 seals it.

May the Good Lord bless and keep you safe.

Remember to "Always Love The Details."

The Living God

 

  The living God

        Dan. 6:20

How many times we find this expression in the Scriptures, and yet it is just this very thing that we are so prone to lose sight of! We know it is written the living God; but in our daily life there is scarcely anything we practically so much lose sight of as the fact that God is the LIVING GOD; that He is now whatever He was three or four thousand years since; that He has the same sovereign power, the same saving love toward those who love and serve Him as ever He had, and that He will do for them now what He did for others two, three, four thousand years ago, simply because He is the living God, the unchanging One. Oh, how therefore we should confide in Him, and in our darkest moments never lose sight of the fact that He is still and ever will be the LIVING GOD.

                                            George Mueller

Samuel G. Hardman and Dwight Lyman Moody, Thoughts for the Quiet Hour (Willow Grove, PA: Woodlawn Electronic Publishing, 1997).

Just as Daniel was saved in the Lione's den so shall we survive in the lion's den of life. Is it not the world that persecutes Christians and tries to destroy them? Our lives depend on the hand of our savior to deliver us from such a fate. Is He not the "Living God? Yes! He is.

May the good Lord Bless and Keep you safe. Remember to "Always Love The Details."

The Bells

 

  Thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron

                                                Exod. 28:2

Have we no garments of blue, and purple, and beautiful suggestiveness? We have garments of praise; we are clothed with the Lord Jesus. And have we no ornaments? The ornament of a meek and quiet spirit is, in the sight of God, of great price. And have we no golden bells? We have the golden bells of holy actions. Our words are bells, our actions are bells, our purposes are bells. Wherever we move, our motion is thus understood to be a motion towards holy places, holy deeds, holy character.

                                                Joseph Parker

Samuel G. Hardman and Dwight Lyman Moody, Thoughts for the Quiet Hour (Willow Grove, PA: Woodlawn Electronic Publishing, 1997).

The sound of bells accompanies our every movement as we move toward the presence of our Lord. Those around us take note of the actions of our movement. They are drawn to those who are like Christ but are unaware of the sound of the bells until they themselves are adorned with the bells.

May the good Lord bless and keep you safe. Remember to "Always Love The Details."

Seeing is believing?

 

  Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed

                                                                                                                                        John 20:29

The seen are shadows: the substance is found in the unseen.… No doubt, in Christ, the foundation of our faith is unseen; but so is that of yonder tower that lifts its tall erect form among the waves over which it throws a saving light. It appears to rest on the rolling billows; but, beneath these, invisible and immovable, lies the solid rock on which it stands secure: and when the hurricane roars above, and breakers roar below, I could go calmly to sleep in that lone sea tower. Founded on a rock, and safer than the proudest palace that stands on the sandy, surf-beaten shore, it cannot be moved. Still less the Rock of Ages! Who trusts in that is fit for death, prepared for judgment, ready for the last day’s sounding trumpet, since, “The Lord redeemeth the soul of his servants, and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.”

                                                                                                Guthrie

Samuel G. Hardman and Dwight Lyman Moody, Thoughts for the Quiet Hour (Willow Grove, PA: Woodlawn Electronic Publishing, 1997).

 It is not required to see something to know it exists. There are many things that we know exist in our world even though they are beyond our ability to see them. Why is it that some even doubt the existence of things we can see, touch, hear and even smell? If you are still enough in spirit and quiet enough in mind to allow our spirit to touch God, you will find that He is always there guiding and speaking to you through the promised Holy Spirit. Read John 20:29. If you believe Christ was resurrected from the dead, and celebrate Easter, then you also believe even though you have not seen Him physically. 

May the good Lord bless you and keep you safe. Remember to "Always Love The Details."

To Be

 

  Where art thou?

        Gen. 3:9

Art thou hiding thyself away from Him who would send thee forth to do His own blessed work in His own way? Oh, let me say to thee this morning, “The Lord hath need of thee.” It may seem to be only a little thing He has for you to do, but it is an important one. He has “need of thee.” Turn not thy back upon Him; put not thyself out of the way of being employed by Him; do not begin by laying down laws for thyself as to what thou wilt do and what thou wilt not do; but cry out from the very depth of thy heart, “Here am I! Send me.”

                                            W. Hay Aitken

Samuel G. Hardman and Dwight Lyman Moody, Thoughts for the Quiet Hour (Willow Grove, PA: Woodlawn Electronic Publishing, 1997).

It is not enough to just be present in this world for God is not just present in this world. Jesus did not come into this world to just be present but to show us the love of the father for His creation. We cannot earn the Love of our father in heaven because His love is present eternally. In His grace His love is given for all who accept it without any need to earn it. He is our guide through the love we accept from Him. Living in His love transforms us into images of our creator. We become living images of Christ. We live in the love of Christ as active imagers of God.