Did you know that if you are a child of God He has but one goal for your life? Contrary to popular Christian culture, it is not to make you happy. It is not to keep you healthy or make you wealthy. His purpose for your life is not even to make you a better person…
How in the world can a wretched, sinful, conniving pile of dust such as we humans stand in confidence before a holy, righteous, perfect, and powerful God? This God cannot be fooled!
It would be safe to say that all of us have humiliated ourselves at one time or another. I remember one time I said an unkind word about a classmate of mine my junior year in high school only to realize that she was sitting right behind me…
I would like to make a very bold statement. No matter what you believe about Jesus Christ now, someday you will acknowledge Him as Lord of all (Philippians 2:10-11). The choice you have is whether you will do this from heaven or hell.
I have prayed for a lot of things, circumstances, and people over the years, as I’m sure you have, too. Some of my prayers have been short and intense, like the time an oncoming car swerved into our path one winter coming back from Rockland…
For those of you men who are older I’m sure you remember what it was like when your father said, “meet me in the woodshed.” You knew immediately that it was not to stack wood because you had just disobeyed your dad in some way and the “board of education” was about to be applied to “the seat of knowledge”.
Friend, how do want to finish your life? Nobody wants to end their life in disgrace or failure. But is there a higher goal in the Christian life than to keep our noses clean? Can we look forward to more than a sigh of relief that we made it?
Courage is a must to live life well. Certainly, we need courage to live out our faith for Christ in a hostile world. But have you ever thought that courage is also needed to pray?
