Tuesday, March 31, 2020
We Need Faith
Mark 11:22---And
Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.
Dr. Wernher
von Braun, the guiding scientist in the development of our great space rockets,
has said, “The materialists of the 19th century and the Marxist heirs of the
20th tried to tell us that as science yields more knowledge about the creation,
it makes us able to live without faith in a Creator.
Yet so far,
with every new answer, we have discovered new questions.
The better
we understand the intricacies of the atomic structure, the nature of life and
the master plan for the galaxies, the more reason we have found to marvel at
the wonder of God’s creation.
But our need
for God is not based on awe alone.
Man needs
faith just as he needs food, water, and air.
With all the
science in the world, we need faith in God.”
By Dr. Billy
Graham
Monday, March 30, 2020
Endless Forgiveness
1st
Thessalonians 5:9,10---God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain
salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us . . .
Look at Christ’s death.
In one biography of the great American, Daniel Webster, 863 pages deal
with his career and just five pages are devoted to his death.
In Hay’s life of Abraham Lincoln, there are 5,000 pages but only 25 are
devoted to the dramatic story of his assassination and death. In most
biographies, the deaths of the subjects are mere incidents at the close of the books.
But when we come to the four “biographies” of Jesus, the four Gospels,
we are confronted with a strange fact.
One-third of Matthew is giving a description of the death of Christ.
One-third of Mark, one-fourth of Luke, and one-half of John are given
to His death.
All these pages are devoted to the last 24 hours of His life.
The death of Jesus Christ is a significant fact in human history,
because Jesus Christ came for the express purpose of dying for sinners.
When He left heaven, He knew He was going to the cross.
By Dr. Billy Graham
Sunday, March 29, 2020
The Peace of Jesus
John 16:33---These
things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye
shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
The peace
that Jesus came to bring was not the peace of appeasement or the peace of
compromise and conformity.
It was a
spiritual peace.
The world
doesn’t give peace, for it doesn’t have any peace to give.
It fights
for peace, it negotiates for peace, it maneuvers for peace, but there is no
ultimate peace in the world.
But Jesus
gives peace to those who put their trust in Him.
If you have
received His peace, then you are in His camp.
But if you
have rejected it, then you are against Him.
His peace is
available to everyone who will receive it.
Saturday, March 28, 2020
The Struggles of Life
1st Peter
2:24---Who his own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree ...
All life is
a struggle that is the nature of things.
Even within
our physical bodies, doctors tell us, a conflict for supremacy is going on.
The bacteria
in our bloodstream are waging a constant war against alien germs.
The red
corpuscles fight the white corpuscles constantly in an effort to maintain life
within the body.
A battle is
also raging in the spiritual realm. “We fight,” the Bible says, “against the
rulers of the darkness of this world.”
Darkness
hates light.
A dog would
rather dig up a moldy carcass to chew on than to have the finest, cleanest
meal.
They can’t
help it that is their nature.
Men cannot
help that it is their nature to respond to the lewd, the salacious, and the
vile.
They will
have difficulty doing otherwise until they are born again.
And until
they are changed by the power of Christ, they will likely be at enmity against
those who are associated with Christ.
Friday, March 27, 2020
Guard Against Greed
Matthew
6:24---No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one and love
the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot
serve God and mammon.
Tell me what
you think about money, and I will tell you what you think about God, for these
two are closely related.
A man’s heart is closer to his wallet than anything else.
It is a
staggering fact that for the past few years’ people have spent ten times as
much for luxuries and non-essentials as they have for all charitable and
religious purposes.
This is a
commentary on our shallow and superficial religious faith.
While the
Bible warns us against greed and selfishness, it does encourage frugality and
thrift.
Even Jesus
said to His disciples after He fed the multitude, “Gather up the fragments that
remain, that nothing be lost.”
Although our
Lord had the power to create, He Himself lived frugally and without luxury.
John Wesley had a threefold philosophy about money.
He said,
“Make all you can; keep all you can, and give all you can.”
Most of us
get all we can, spend all we can; borrow all we can; and give meagerly to God.
Thursday, March 26, 2020
The Problem of Boredom
Hebrews 6:12---That
ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit
the promises.
Do you know
what nearly all the sociologists say today in their study of young people?
The greatest problem facing young people today is not sex—it is boredom. Did you know that
when they had the riot at Hampton Beach in New Hampshire they asked the young
people, what was wrong, why did they do it?
Many of them
said, “Just for the hell of it.”
Bored—life
has no purpose, life has no meaning.
Give your
life to Christ and you will never spend another bored minute.
By Dr. Billy
Graham
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
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