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One reason we are so harried and hurried is that we make yesterday and tomorrow our business, when all that legitimately concerns us is today. If we really have too much to do, there are some items on the agenda which God did not put there. Let us submit the list to Him and ask Him to indicate which items we must delete. There is always time to do the will of God. If we are too busy to do that, we are too busy. 

 

Elisabeth Elliot

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"Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." - Mt6:34

"My grace is sufficient for thee. "- 2Co12:9

Evil shall pass with the day that brought it,

As the sea is stayed by the barrier land;

When the Giver of Good shall say, "No farther,"

And bid the foeman restrain his hand;

But the grace of the Lord outstays the evil,

Outlasts the darkness, outruns the morn,

Outwatches the stars in their nightly vigil,

And the foe that returns with the day re-born,

As he left it unwearied, shall find it unworn.

 

Annie Johnson Flint

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The Empty Tomb

A Mohommedan once said to a missionary:

"We have our Prophet's tomb to show,

but you have nothing."

Earth's Meccas and the faiths of men

Hold but a corpse within a tomb;

Each weary pilgrim's journey ends

At some sad shrine of grief and gloom.

Earth's prophets rest, in silence wrapped,

Dust in the dust from whence they came;

By Death's chill wind their torches quenched,

No more to kindle into flame.

Earth's priests in solemn splendour sleep,

Ashes to ashes, robed and stoled;

Their chanted prayers forever hushed,

Their altar fires forever cold.

Earth's kings in state and glory lie,

In crypts of porphyry encased;

Their names and deeds, in marble carved,

Time's blurring touch has half erased.

No mausoleum built by man

Entombs our Prophet, Priest and King;

Our love no pilgrimage need make,

No fading votive garlands bring.

No death could kill, no gaurd could keep,

No seal could stay, no grave could hold

Immortal Life in mortal clay;

No darkness could the Light enfold.

Our Prophet's word shall come to pass,

Our Priest is interceding still;

Our King shall reign forevermore,

While heaven and earth shall do his will.

"No grave to show"? This is the stone

On which the temples of our faith

Rise higher than the mosques of Ind;

Our Living Lord has counquered Death!

 

Annie Johnson Flint

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A Christian knows that death shall be the funeral of all his sins, his sorrows, his afflictions, his temptations, his vexations, his oppressions, his persecutions. He knows that death shall be the resurrection of all his hopes, his joys, his delights, his comforts, his contentments.

Thomas Brooks

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It is a vain idea of ours, to suppose that if our circumstances were altered we should

be more at rest. My brother, if you cannot rest in poverty, neither would you in

riches; if you cannot rest in the midst of persecution, neither would you in the midst

of honour. It is the spirit within that gives the rest, that rest has little to do with

anything without. 

Charles Spurgeon

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I wish that saints would cling to Christ half as earnestly as sinners cling to the devil.  If we were as willing to suffer for God as some are willing to suffer for their lusts, what perseverance and zeal would be seen on all sides!

 

Charles Spurgeon

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My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?... Of course I could have given up my idea of justice by saying it was nothing but a private idea of my own. But if I did that, then my argument against God collapsed too--for the argument depended on saying the world was really unjust, not simply that it did not happen to please my fancies.

C. S. Lewis

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The test of a man’s religious life and character is not what he does in the exceptional moments of life, but what he does in the ordinary times, when there is nothing tremendous or exciting on.

  

                    Oswald Chambers

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Self is an unpleasant subject for study, anatomy is nothing to it: to dissect a corpse is

not half so disagreeable as to examine your own character.

 

Charles Spurgeon

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Every Christian who falls into sin is a fool.  If a Christian feels he is in a state of defeat, it is because he is being controlled by his subjective feelings, instead of by an understanding of the truth.  Deliverance from this condition, therefore, depends upon a total change in approach:  Christians are to look not at themselves and their problems but at what God had done for them; their need is not the ‘hospital’ but the ‘barracks” where they will forget their own troubles and ills, and learn to fight in the army. 

We must get rid of that notion of the clinic and the hospital; and we must look at these things more in terms of God and His glory, and the great campaign which He inaugurated through the Son of His love, and which He is going to bring to a triumphant conclusion.

 

Martin Lloyd-Jones

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In the divine omniscience we see set forth against each other the terror and fascination of the Godhead. That God knows each person through and through can be a cause of shaking fear to the man that has something to hide - some unforsaken sin, some secret crime committed against man or God. The unblessed soul may well tremble that God knows the flimsiness of every pretext and never accepts the poor excuses given for sinful conduct, since He knows perfectly the real reason for it. ”Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.” How frightful a thing to see the sons of Adam seeking to hide among the trees of another garden. But where shall they hide? ”Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?… If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me. Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day.”

And to us who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope that is set before us in the gospel, how unutterably sweet is the knowledge that our Heavenly Father knows us completely. No talebearer can inform on us, no enemy can make an accusation stick; no forgotten skeleton can come tumbling out of some hidden closet to abash us and expose our past; no unsuspected weakness in our characters can come to light to turn God away from us, since He knew us utterly before we knew Him and called us to Himself in the full knowledge of everything that was against us.

 

                               A. W. Tozer