Life—the first glance would hardly find it on this African hillside in the summertime. The hot wind of the desert has passed over it, and the spring beauty of iris and orchid, asphodel and marigold, has vanished. Nothing is to be seen but the mellow golden-brown of the grass, broken by blue-green aloe leaves, and [...]
It was just the day before Good Friday, known as “Green Thursday,” that the twenty-seven-year-old seeker entered into an enlarged place, the cries and entreaties of the past years being abundantly answered. He came to realize that the life of crucifixion with Christ was not to be one he could learn by instruction save by [...]
Hannah Whitehall Smith writes. . .
THERE WAS A TIME in my Christian life when I was passing through a great deal of questioning and perplexity. I felt that no Christian had ever had such peculiar difficulties as mine. There happened to be staying near me for a few weeks a lady who was considered to [...]
He loves the weakest of those for whom He died. Just as a mother loves all her children, even those that are weak and sickly, so Christ cares for those who are weak in the faith—who have many doubts and fears—who have heavy burdens and temptations….
Satan would make a man look anywhere rather than to [...]
Many assume heaven will be unlike earth. But why do we think this? God designed earth for human beings. And nearly every description of heaven includes references to earthly things—eating, music, animals, water, trees, fruits, and a city with gates and streets.
The Bible speaks of the new heavens and the new earth—not a nonheavens and [...]
“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” (Matt. 11:29-30)
Did you ever stop to ask what a yoke is really for? Is it to be a burden to [...]
God is the absolute source of righteousness, but there is also an absolute source of unrighteousness—the devil. All human activity derives from one or the other of these two origins.
That is why the Bible says, “Whatsoever is not of faith is sin” (Romans 14:23 KJV). Whatever does not derive from your attitude of total dependence [...]
“Nothing at all beside this manna”—that was the deep source of their discontent. At first they had enjoyed the manna immensely. It tasted like wafers made with honey and was quite a novelty, but they soon got tired of it. Their minds strayed back to the good old diet, and the more they savored it [...]
We might well pray for God to invade and conquer us, for until He does, we remain in peril from a thousand foes. We bear within us the seeds of our own disintegration. Our moral imprudence puts us always in danger of accidental or reckless self-destruction. The strength of our flesh is an ever present [...]
