After working for the same company for almost 20 years, we were faced with a frightening dilemma. The owner had died, and in the reshuffle that followed we were left without a Chair. It became apparent that after a short while there would be no employment at all. We had some time to consider…
Where are our hearts?
Our God requires us to trust Him implicitly. He requires us to believe what He has written in His Word: “without faith it is impossible to please Him” (Heb 11:6).
However, our belief has to be more than an intellectual assent (where we agree with what has been sta…
What lights our way?
Christ makes a statement about healthy eyesight: “The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light” (Matt 6:22).
The language here is a little archaic and perhaps shrouds the true meaning. The word “light�…
Take no thought for your life
This discussion is fairly comfortable while it remains theoretical. However, Christ doesn’t leave it there. He challenges us to put that which we know to be right into practice in the mundane things of daily life. He said, “Therefore I say unto you, Take no …
The Life and the Body
There are two categories we are not to be anxious over – the life and the body: “Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the bod…
Remember God’s works
God challenges us to remember what He has done in the past and to trust in Him that He will continue to work on our behalf in the future. God challenged Israel with that identical thought:
“They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law; and forgat his w…
O ye of little faith
The problem that we face today is the same problem Israel faced in the wilderness: a lack of faith. We can have faith on an intellectual and academic level—but it is the practical level where faith is demonstrated: in actions, “For as the body without the spirit is d…
Taste and See
We should look to God to be our constant aid in time of trouble. Consider the testimony of the Psalms:
“I sought the Lord, and he heard me, And delivered me from all my fears. They looked unto him, and were lightened: And their faces were not ashamed. This poor man cried, and the…
I Have Commanded the Ravens to Feed Thee
Not only does God feed the birds of the field, He also used them to feed His servants. Elijah was sent on a dangerous mission to Israel that would result in a three-and-a-half-year famine upon the land, yet Elijah would be preserved while all Israel were in …
A Completely Different Outlook
Christ challenges us to have a completely different outlook about our lives compared to the world around us:
“Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gent…
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