Contentment
Oh, what a happy soul am I! Although I cannot see, I am resolved that in this world Contented I will be. How many blessings I enjoy, That other people don’t! To weep and sigh because I’m blind I cannot and I won’t. —Fanny J. Crosby […]
Author: Bill Nicholson
Posts by Bill Nicholson
God’s Unchanging Word
For feelings come and feelings go, And feelings are deceiving; My warrant is the word of God, Naught else is worth believing. Though all my heart should feel condemned For want of some sweet token, There is One greater than my heart Whose word cannot be broken. I’ll trust in God’s unchanging word Till soul […]
The Tree
What does it mean this wood So stained with blood; This tree without a root That bears such fruit; This tree without a leaf So leaved with grief? What does its height proclaim Whose height is shame; Its piteous arms outspread Where death lies dead; And in the midst a heart Cleft wide apart? Though […]
January 21
“Oh, that My people would listen to Me…” (Ps 81:13). God has no communication problem, and if we ask Him to speak every morning to us through His Word, He won’t disappoint us. […]
January 20
“And Peter answered Him and said, ‘Lord, if it is You, command me to come to You on the water. So He said, ‘Come’” (Mt 14:28-29). If we want to be overcomers instead of undergoers, we need to believe that standing on Jesus’ word is safer than riding in a boat any day. […]
January 19
“And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish the work of our hands for us; yes, establish the work of our hands” (Ps 90:17). The Law of Transformation reveals that we become like those we consistently admire, and this transformation is maximized by most admiring the Agent of Ultimate […]
January 18
“You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You” (Isa 26:3). Elastic minds move in many directions but, if pinned on the Lord, will find rest in the midst of life’s upsets by making Him our Home Base. […]
January 17
“But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord” (2 Cor 3:18). This metamorphosis occurs in the measure that we make Christ our most intimate Friend, our constant Companion, […]
January 16
“If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also” (Jn 12:26). Following Christ is the only way to real progress in life: so today walk in love, work in faith, and watch in hope. […]