Thursday, April 30, 2020
A Breath Away
A Local Christian woman who came close to death sent me this
to share with you. A Poem that God gave her after a close call.
Psalm 23:4---Yea, though I walk through the valley of the
shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy
staff they comfort me.
Death is a scary word,
For those who don't know the Lord,
Fear is like a two-edged sword.
I lay in my hospital bed
Had a pillow for my head.
The world seemed sunny and bright,
As I closed my eyes that night.
I lay in bed, not knowing I was close to death,
Would I draw another breath?
God showed his Grace and might,
He let me take a breath that night.
If you fear death,
Before you take your last breath,
Go on your knees before God’s throne.
Ask forgiveness and change your ways,
Eternity is just a breath away.
Sandra Rowan
Wednesday, April 29, 2020
Joy, A Way Of True Life
1 Peter 4:13---But
rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his
glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
No way can
you have a life full of joy????
No way can
you have joy in all the pain, suffering, problems, and other stuff we have to
live with or live through????
Ah, but the secret to a full life, especially a life full of joy is to live in spite of the
darkness.
Instead of
living in reaction to the darkness, live in spite of bad things happening and
live before bad things happen.
Win Christ's
prize by reacting to pain by praising God.
Win Christ's
prize by reacting to problems by praying to God.
Win Christ's
prize by reacting to darkness with hope by keeping the flame of hope alive
within you.
In spite of
all the stagnation and sometimes desperation put upon you by the darkness,
construct and build as God wills.
In the heart
of God, there is always joy.
To have a life full of joy, have a heart full of God in spite of the pain, suffering,
problems, and stuff we have to live through.
In the heart
of God is all joy, when you say, "Please Lord, let your joy be in me"
then He will answer you and He will place His joy within you.
Tuesday, April 28, 2020
A Letter to the Weary from Jesus
Life can be full of challenges at
times.
But no matter what we face, we can be assured that God is always with
us.
He knows our way.
He cares.
And we are never alone.
Matthew 11:28-30--- Come unto me, all ye that labor and
are heavily laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of
me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For
my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
Dear Child,
I heard you cry last night.
I was there in the darkness when the
tears slipped down your face and your heart broke within you.
Did you think I didn’t see and didn’t
care?
Do you really think I don’t know-how
tired and weary you really are?
Child, I’ve been with you when life
has dealt its bitterest blows. I’ve watched you handle all the sorrow and all
the pain.
But you are weary now, and I can see
the broken spirit and the faded hopes and dreams.
Please don’t forget that I care.
My touch and caress can restore and
mend your broken heart and kindle the flame of hope once more within you.
Let Me love you.
Takedown the barricades around your
heart and lean on Me.
I am not tired and I am not weary and
I have the strength enough to carry you if you will let Me.
You are not alone, and you have never
been, for I am your friend and I will never, ever leave your side.
Trust Me!
Your Friend, Jesus
Monday, April 27, 2020
YOU HAVE CHOICES TO MAKE
Life for
many people is like riding a raft down a river without any poles or oars.
For many
people, life runs to extremes.
The
circumstances of life can be like riding on raging rapids or like being stuck
in a stagnant pool with no movement.
An essential truth of life is that either you control life or life will control you.
There is,
for many people, no choice over their circumstances and they have no voice to
express their pain.
An
eighty-five-year-old person in a nursing home, it would seem, has few choices
about life.
However,
there are a few choices a person confined to a nursing home can make.
A nursing
home resident can love God, love others, and pray.
The reality
for every person is that if you don't have a handle on life, life will handle
you.
There is
always a choice about how you will be.
You may not
have a choice about what you do in a circumstance, but you do have a choice
about the kind of person you are.
You may be
caught on a raft on a raging river with no control over where you are but you
can control how you respond to that circumstance.
The great
tests of life are the tests that require humility, courage, love, compassion,
mercy, and forgiveness.
You control
the result of your test.
You pass or
fail based upon what you desire.
You have a
choice about being a child of God.
You have a
choice about loving God with all your heart, all your soul, and with all of your
might.
You have a
choice about accepting Christ into your heart and life.
Sunday, April 26, 2020
A Deep Faith
1st Peter 1:7---That the
trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth,
though it is tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honor and glory
at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
A deep faith
results in our having a guiding light in our life.
This guiding
Light, the Holy Spirit, produces wisdom.
Many of the
decisions we make every day, even the decisions of seeming insignificance,
require wisdom.
Wisdom is
not something with which we are born.
Wisdom is
acquired.
Deep faith
produces within us a hunger to know about God and about how to live our life
according to His guiding Hand.
Deep faith
produces within us a starting point for acquiring wisdom.
Persons of
faith should always want to do the right thing.
We should
always want to do what God wants from us.
As we hunger
and thirst to do the right and the smart thing, we acquire wisdom.
Saturday, April 25, 2020
What Is Right And Wrong?
Isaiah 5:20--- Woe unto them that call evil good,
and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put
bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
We have been desensitized to the
gruesome ideas of abortion, euthanasia, assisted suicide, and scientific
experimentation.
We no longer treasure life.
We consider life to be expendable,
unless, of course, it is our own.
Many dark forces in the world come
against us to convince us life is not worth living.
Many forces in the world come against
us hoping we will cave in and give up our Christian Faith.
However, we have a force of Light,
Love and redeeming glory within us called the Holy Spirit.
May we always depend on the Spirit of
the Living God to carry us through these dark times when people want to make
what is wrong right and what is right wrong.
Friday, April 24, 2020
A Permanent Fix
Our lives
are plagued by problems, adversities, and challenges which often seem never to
end.
In many cases, we can adjust to and work around our
adversities.
We can even
get a cure for what ails us in our life.
We could
even get a cure for what ails everyone in the world.
However,
what would be changed if all the problems and ails of the world would suddenly
be made to go away?
Would there
be no more war or could a war come again?
Would there
be no more poverty or would poverty reappear?
Would there
be no more pain or would pain come again?
Would there
be no more darkness or would darkness come again?
Tragically,
even if we solved all of the world's problems today, tomorrow the old reasons
for the present problems would begin eating away at us and all the problems
would return.
The old
problems would return because what the world does not need is a quick fix to
problems.
What the
world needs is a permanent fix for our hearts and souls from the hand of
God…the hand of God delivering His healing Light…the hand of God seeking to
touch us with His Love.
This hand of
God, this hand full of so much love, did come to us, but we nailed this hand to
the cross in the most tragic crime we have ever committed.
Thursday, April 23, 2020
Awakening, He Is Still God
Before the present age of arrogance and rebellion against God there was a time when faith
in God was revered.
There was a time when even the heathen respected those who truly believed in Christ.
Today, many
people believe that God can be ignored until some kind of emergency or some
kind of crisis appears.
Today, the only time many people got terribly religious is when their life or the life of
someone else was threatened.
Today, we
are in a power-driven techno age where just about any kind of power is
available to just about anyone.
We are
trying to clone or have cloned human beings.
We are
trying to modify the weather.
For many
people they firmly believe they no longer need God.
Previously,
in the times before our industrialized and technology-driven era began, most
people would have agreed there were some things we could not do on our own or
even with help from others.
However,
today, we live under the delusion that we have just about any kind of power we
need for just about any kind of purpose.
A day of
awakening awaits those caught up in this kind of arrogance.
Just think
about it, one day we had a booming economy and was on top of the world.
The next day
a virus hit and our world come to a stop.
I believe
personally, God has slowed our arrogant spirits down just to let us all know
that HE IS STILL GOD.
Wednesday, April 22, 2020
True Sacrifice, Humility
Psalm 51:17---The sacrifices of God
are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not
despise.
Before God, we cannot be “together.”
Before God, we cannot be proud, or
arrogant, or puffed up. Before God, we cannot be selfish.
Before God, we cannot be rude.
Before God, all of who we are is
exposed.
Before God, we will be humbled.
Before God, we will fall down.
However, when we fall down before God
He will most surely pick us up.
God has a reason for wanting us to be
humble and contrite.
For when we are humble and contrite
we are then able to listen to God’s wisdom and truth.
When we are able to listen to God in
our humility we are then able to become more like the person of love, caring,
understanding, and compassion He wants us to be.
On the surface, a broken spirit
appears to be a bad thing. However, with God, there is power in His humility.
The power of His humility is the
power of God in our hearts molding us and shaping us into His likeness.
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
Achieving Victory
Isa 41:10---Fear
thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will
strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right
hand of my righteousness.
All of us
need to look for the light in the darkness.
However,
sometimes we tell ourselves things will be better tomorrow and then we quit
preparing for tomorrow.
Worse still,
we tell ourselves things will be better tomorrow in order to escape fixing issues
today.
Being an
optimist about tomorrow does not mean we are supposed to ignore what tomorrow
may bring.
Too often,
people tell themselves things will be better tomorrow in order to avoid
responsibilities today.
With Christ,
things will not just be better in the future, things will be great in the
future!
In order to
glorify Christ, we must be realistic and go for victory when we face the
darkness.
To be
victorious, we must expect victory then pursue victory with Christ's game plan.
Telling
yourself you will win tomorrow or things will be better tomorrow, is not
enough.
To achieve
victory takes preparation and hard work today.
Our victory
in Christ means we are to work hard and never quit.
Monday, April 20, 2020
Your GPS, The Bible
“Thy Word
have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against Thee.” - Psalm 119:11
A home is
a good place for the Bible.
The hand is
a better place.
The heart is
yet a better place.
We must
learn to hide God’s Word in our hearts.
And in order
for it to get in our hearts, we have to read it.
We have to
study it.
How much
time are you spending with the Word of God?
Do you
wonder why you can't live a pure life?
Or live in
victory?
Why you cave
in when temptation comes?
Why you
can't be an overcomer?
How much
time are you spending daily with the Word of God?
Many spend
far more time with the television or the newspaper than with the Word of God.
And then
they wonder why they fail.
This is the
book God has given to help you to live victoriously.
Many are
just playing at Bible study.
You never
really get into it.
You say,
"Oh, the Bible is a wonderful book."
What good is
that going to do you?
What good
are the promises in God's Word unless you appropriate them into your life?
Do you have
a quiet time, a time when you get alone with God?
Do you get
up every morning and saturate your soul with the Word of God and bathe your
soul in the presence of Jesus?
Dedicate
yourself to read and study at least one chapter of a book of the Bible Daily!
And write some of it on the tablets of your heart.
Just Do It!
Sunday, April 19, 2020
Wisdom to Understand
Genesis 28:15---Behold, I am with
thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest.
When Jesus uttered His words of comfort in the first few verses of the
fourteenth chapter of John’s Gospel, concluding with, “And whither I go ye
know, and the way ye know” (John 14:4), Thomas said unto Him, “Lord, we know
not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?” (John 14:5).
Jesus answered him with a statement which has in it the ring of
eternity.
It was sublimely simple and yet profoundly deep.
Its surface meaning was clear to all, and yet the great theologians
have never completely sounded its mighty depths.
This is that statement, “I am the way, the truth, and the life; no man
cometh unto the Father, but by me” (John 14:6).
In one majestic sweep, these words silenced Thomas’ questioning tongue
and brought reassurance and peace to the hearts of the other disciples.
Within the marvel of that authoritative sentence from the lips of the
Son of God, there was enough comfort to assuage the sufferings of the
tormented, enough wisdom to satisfy those who yearned for understanding, and
enough power to set the great Christian movement in motion.
By Dr. Billy Graham
Saturday, April 18, 2020
What Is The Secret of Real Living?
Psalm 63:1---O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee; my soul
thirsteth for thee . . .
Some Christians have learned little about having a daily devotional
life.
Some time ago I was asked, what is the secret of victorious living?
I answered there is no magic formula that can be pronounced.
If any word could describe it, I would say surrender.
The second word I would say would be devotion.
Nothing can take the place of a daily devotional life with Christ.
Your quiet time, your prayer time, the time you spend in the Word is
essential for a happy Christian life.
You cannot possibly be a happy, dynamic, and powerful Christian apart
from a daily walk with Christ.
Christ is calling Christians today to cleansing, to the dedication, to
consecration, and full surrender.
It will make the difference between success and failure in your
spiritual life.
It will make the difference between being helped and helping others.
It will make a difference in your habits, in your prayer life, in your
Bible reading, in your giving, in your testimony, and your church membership.
Friday, April 17, 2020
Always Be Vigilant
1 Peter 5:8---Be
sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion,
walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.
Not long ago,
I read again of the shocking events which led up to the destruction of the
United States fleet at Pearl Harbor.
On the fateful day of December 7, 1941, the Japanese attacked.
We know now
that attack was invited by our failure to be always vigilant.
The result
was the destruction of our fleet, the cause was tragic indifference.
When comfort
and ease and pleasure are put ahead of duty and conviction, progress is always
set back.
What makes
us Christians shrug our shoulders when we ought to be flexing our muscles?
What makes
us apathetic in a day when there are loads to lift, a world to be won, and
captives to be set free?
Why are so
many bored, when the times demand action?
Christ told
us that in the last days there would be an insipid attitude toward life.
By Dr. Billy
Graham
Thursday, April 16, 2020
Evidence of Jesus
Revelation 1:18---I am he that liveth, and was dead; and behold, I am
alive forevermore . . .
Certain laws of evidence hold in the establishment of any historic
event.
Documentation of the event in question must be made by reliable
contemporary witnesses.
There is more evidence that Jesus rose from the dead than there is that
Julius Caesar ever lived, or that Alexander the Great died at the age of 33.
It is strange that historians will accept thousands of facts for which
they can produce only shreds of evidence.
But in the face of the overwhelming evidence of the resurrection of
Jesus Christ, they cast a skeptical eye and hold intellectual doubts.
The trouble with many people is that they do not want to believe.
They are so completely prejudiced that they cannot accept the glorious
fact of the resurrection of Christ on Bible testimony alone.
By Dr. Billy Graham
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
The Return of the Lord
Philippians
3:20---For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the
Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
The
Scriptures indicate that we are living in man’s day.
But there is
coming a day that will be called the Day of the Lord.
Amid
hopelessness, there is hope!
And that
hope is centered in the God-man, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now the will
of man runs riot in the earth.
Then the will
of the Lord will alone be done.
Until that
time, we are under orders from the King of kings to proclaim His message.
When we
engage in evangelism, we are obeying His great command to “go and proclaim.”
In doing so,
we are hastening the day of His return.
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Looking for a Cause?
Romans 12:1---Brethren . . . present your bodies a living sacrifice,
holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
In a book called “The Age of Longing,” we read that an American girl
married a radical revolutionary in Paris.
She had lost her faith at an American University, lost all the
religious faith she had, and all the things her parents had told her.
She was asked why she married him.
She said, “He’s the first person I have ever known who believes
something strong enough to die for it.
Although I don’t believe exactly as he does, I was attracted to this
man who had found a cause.”
I find that young people today are looking for a cause, and they are
not looking for something easy.
Some time ago a university student in Moscow told one of my colleagues,
“You Christians say that you are going to win the world, but we’ve done more in
fifty years than you’ve done in two thousand years.
And do you know why?
It is because you are not committed.
We are.
We will win, you’ll see.”
By Dr. Billy Graham
Monday, April 13, 2020
Shine Your Light
Matthew 5:16---Let your light so
shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father
which is in heaven.
One faithful witness is worth a thousand mute professors of religion.
Tom Allan, Scotland’s famous young preacher, was brought to Christ
while a black soldier was singing, “Were You There When They Crucified My
Lord?”
He said it was neither the song nor the voice, but the spirit in which
that soldier sang—something about his manner, something about his sincerity of
expression—that convicted him of his wicked life and turned him to the Savior.
Our faith grows by expression. If we want to keep our faith, we must
share it—we must witness.
By Billy Graham
Sunday, April 12, 2020
Transformed By Grace
2 Corinthians 5:21---He hath made him
to be sin for us . . . that we might be made the righteousness of God . .
Augustine was one of the greatest theologians of all time.
He was a wild, intemperate, immoral youth.
In spite of his mother’s pleadings and prayers, he grew worse instead
of better.
But one day he had a personal encounter with Jesus Christ that
transformed his life.
His restlessness and the practice of sin disappeared.
He became one of the great saints of all time.
John Newton was a slave trader on the west coast of Africa.
One day in a storm at sea he met Jesus Christ.
He went back to England and became an Anglican clergyman.
He wrote scores of hymns, one of which has become the modern popular
song, “Amazing Grace.”
This is what Christ can do for anyone who puts his trust in Him.
By Dr. Billy Graham
Saturday, April 11, 2020
What Is Most Important?
1 Corinthians 15:13,14,20---But if there be no resurrection of the dead,
then is Christ not risen: And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching
vain, and your faith is also vain. But now is Christ risen from the dead, and
become the firstfruits of them that slept.
I was invited to have coffee one morning with Konrad Adenauer before he
retired as the Chancellor of Germany.
When I walked in, I expected to meet a tall, stiff, formal man who
might even be embarrassed if I brought up the subject of religion.
After the greeting, the Chancellor suddenly turned to me and said, “Mr.
Graham, what is the most important thing in the world?”
Before I could answer, he had answered his own question.
He said, “The resurrection of Jesus Christ.
If Jesus Christ is alive, then there is hope for the world.
If Jesus Christ is in the grave, then I don’t see the slightest glimmer
of hope on the horizon.”
Then he amazed me by saying that he believed that the resurrection of
Christ was one of the best-attested facts of history.
He said, “When I leave office, I intend to spend the rest of my life
gathering scientific proof of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.”
It was the fact of the resurrection of Christ that called the disciples
to go out as burning young revolutionaries to change the world of their day.
They preached that Christ is alive. This should be our message every
day of the year.
By Dr. Billy Graham
Friday, April 10, 2020
Do Not Trust Your Heart
Luke 23:33---
And when they were come to the
place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors,
one on the right hand, and the other on the left.
One of the ironies of human nature is that it often has a way of
rejecting the best and accepting the worst.
Why did the crowd ask for the release of Barabbas and the crucifixion
of Jesus?
The answer is in the biblical statement, “The heart is deceitful above
all things, and desperately wicked.”
Jesus is just as divine today and just as much alive as He was on that
first Good Friday.
Yet millions today don’t accept Him.
His goodness is still a rebuke to our badness; His purity still shows
up our impurities; His sinless life still reveals our sinfulness; and unless we
allow Him to destroy the evil within us, the evil within us still wants to
destroy Him. This is the conflict of the ages.
Dr. Billy Graham
Thursday, April 9, 2020
Unchanging Human Nature
John 1:29---The
next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God,
which taketh away the sin of the world.
At the cross of Christ, sin reached its climax.
Its most terrible display took place at Calvary.
It was never blacker or more hideous.
We see the human heart laid bare and its corruption fully exposed.
Some people have said that man has improved since that day that if Christ
came back today, He would not be crucified but would be given a glorious
reception.
Christ does come to us every day in the form of Bibles that we do not
read, in the form of churches that we do not attend, in the form of human need
that we pass by.
I am convinced that if Christ came back today, He would be crucified
more quickly than He was two thousand years ago.
Sin never improves.
Human nature has not changed.
By Dr. Billy Graham
Wednesday, April 8, 2020
What Makes Christianity Different?
Luke 24:6---He
is not here, but is risen.
Something distinguishes Christianity from all the religions of the
world.
Not only does it carry the truth of the redemption, by the death of our
Savior for our sins on the cross, but it carries the fact that Christ rose
again.
Only the Christian faith claims that its Leader died and rose again and
is alive at this moment.
Many gravestones carry the inscription, “Here lies . . . ,” but on
Christ’s tomb are emblazoned the words, “He is not here.”
Christianity has no shrines to visit, no dusty remains to venerate, no
tombs at which to worship.
Many good men have lived, and still live, in the memory of those who
knew them, but there is only one man who conquered death—Jesus Christ—and He
will live forever.
Dr. Billy Graham
Tuesday, April 7, 2020
Know the Bible
Search the Book of the Lord . . .
Isaiah 34:16---Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of
these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth, it hath commanded, and
his spirit it hath gathered them.
Knowledge of the Bible is essential to a rich and meaningful life.
For the words of this Book have a way of filling in the missing pieces,
of bridging the gaps, of turning the tarnished colors of our life to jewel-like
brilliance.
Learn to take every problem to the Bible.
Within its pages, you will find the correct answer.
But most of all, the Bible is a revelation of the nature of God.
The philosophers of the centuries have struggled with the problem of a
Supreme Being. Who is He?
What is He?
Where is He?
If there is such a Person, is He interested in me?
If so, how can I know Him?
These and a thousand other questions about God are answered in this
Holy Book we call the Bible.
By, Dr. Billy Graham
Monday, April 6, 2020
What a Savior!
Luke 24:46---And said unto them, Thus
it is written, and thus it behooved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead
the third day:
What was the power and influence that changed the cross from the instrument of bloody torture into the most glorious and beloved of all symbols?
The Romans crucified thousands of people before and after Calvary.
If Jesus had not risen from the dead, no right-minded person would have
glorified anything as hideous and repulsive as a cross stained with the blood
of Jesus.
By the miracle of His rising from the grave, Jesus placed the seal of
assurance upon the forgiveness of our sins.
A dead Christ could not have been our Savior.
An unopened grave would never have opened heaven.
By bursting the chains of the tomb, Jesus proved Himself to all ages
the conqueror of sin.
The sacrifice on Calvary had fulfilled its purpose; the ransom price
paid for your sins and mine had been accepted by God. Hallelujah, what a
Savior!
Sunday, April 5, 2020
Empty Self Of Self
Psalm 34:18---
The LORD is nigh unto them that
are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
In God’s
economy, you must go down into the valley of grief before you can scale the
heights of spiritual glory.
You must
become tired and weary of living alone before you seek and find the fellowship
of Christ.
You must
come to the end of self before you begin to live.
The mourning
of inadequacy is a weeping that catches the attention of God.
The Bible
says, “The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart, and saveth such
as be of a contrite spirit.”
The happiest
day of my life was when I realized that my own ability, my own goodness, and my
own morality was insufficient in the sight of God, and I publicly and openly
acknowledged my need for Christ as a boy, just 15 years old.
I am not
exaggerating when I say that my mourning was turned to joy and my sighing into
singing that day.
Saturday, April 4, 2020
Not Just a Man
Colossians
1:17---And he is before all things, and by him, all things consist.
Napoleon was right when he said, “I know men, and I tell you, Jesus is
more than a man. Comparison is impossible between Him and any other human being
who ever lived because He was the Son of God.”
Emerson was right when he replied to those who asked him why he did not
include Jesus among his Representative Men, “Jesus was not just a man.”
Arnold Toynbee was right when he said, “As we stand and gaze with our
eyes fixed upon the farther shore, a simple figure rises from the flood and
straightway fills the whole horizon of history.
There is the Savior.”
By Dr. Billy Graham
Friday, April 3, 2020
Use Your Mind
Mark 12:30---And
thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and
with all thy mind . . .
Christ touches every area of our lives. He touches our minds and we are
transformed by the renewing of our minds. God invites people to use their
minds, “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord” (Isaiah 1:18). We
are told in Scripture not to be like the horse or mule, “which have no
understanding” (Psalm 32:9). Christ declared that we are to love the Lord our
God with all our heart, soul, strength, and mind. We are told to fear God, to
love Christ, and to hate sin. Fear, love, and hate are emotions. Dr. Leslie
Weatherhead, preaching at the City Temple in London, said, “What is wrong with
emotion? Christianity is falling in love with Christ. Has anyone ever fallen in
love without emotion?”
By Dr. Billy Graham
Thursday, April 2, 2020
Glory in the Cross
Galatians 6:14---But
God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by
whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.
What glory is there in the cross?
It was an instrument of torture and shame.
Why did Paul glory in it?
He gloried in it because the most selfless act ever performed by men or
angels took place upon it.
He saw-emanating from that rough, unartistic beam upon which the Son of
God had been crucified the radiant hope of the world, the end of the believer’s
bondage to sin and the love of God shed abroad in the hearts of men.
A lone man dying on a cross did more to restore man’s lost harmony with
God, his fellowman, and himself than the combined genius and power of earth’s
mighty.
With my finite limitations, I cannot fully comprehend the mystery of
Christ’s atonement.
I only know that all who come to the cross in simple, trusting faith
lose all their guilty stains and find peace with God.
By Dr. Billy Graham
Wednesday, April 1, 2020
Die to Yourself
Psalm 34:18---The
LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a
contrite spirit.
In God’s economy, you must go down into the valley of grief before you
can scale the heights of spiritual glory.
You must become tired and weary of living alone before you seek and
find the fellowship of Christ.
You must come to the end of self before you begin to live.
The mourning of inadequacy is a weeping that catches the attention of
God.
The Bible says, “The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart;
and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.”
The happiest day of my life was when I realized that my own ability, my
own goodness and my own morality was insufficient in the sight of God, and I
publicly and openly acknowledged my need for Christ.
I am not exaggerating when I say that my mourning was turned to joy,
and my sighing into singing.
By Dr. Billy Graham
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