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."

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."