“Yes, if you cry out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding, if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures; then you will understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God” (Prov 2:3-5). Ask questions and you may look like a fool for […]
“Now I myself am confident concerning you, my brethren, that you also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another” (Rom 15:14). Anyone can be a critic, but we are called to admonish. The difference? A critic points out wrongs; admonishing encourages us to make it right. Goodness + […]
“Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves” (Jas 1:22). Tozer wrote that drivers aren’t safe by reading road signs but by obeying them. Christianity requires action. It’s a common delusion that mere talk makes things better. Hear—then DO. […]
“Now for the house of my God I have prepared with all my might: gold for things to be made of gold, silver for things of silver,…iron for things of iron, wood for things of wood…” (1 Chron 29:2). It’s been observed that we in the West are often warmongers about the trivial and pacifists […]
“But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing” (Jas 1:4). The wag says: “I’m nobody. Nobody’s perfect. So I’m perfect.” The Christian says: “I’m nobody. Christ is perfect. In Him I’m (positionally and potentially) perfect. Keep working on me, Lord!” […]
“For God is not unjust to forget your work and labor of love which you have shown toward His name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister” (Heb 6:10). Great events often recede in the mists of history, forgotten. But no act of kindness, no matter how seemingly insignificant—even a cup […]
“All the days of the afflicted are evil, but he who is of a merry heart has a continual feast” (Prov 15:15). Misery is a communicable disease; don’t be the kind of person who brightens up a room by leaving it. But if I choose to be happy today, the broken-hearted will be nourished when […]
“All things are lawful for me, but all things are not helpful. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any” (1 Cor 6:12). Passions that become masters are vices. The only passion I can give myself completely to without it corrupting me is the passion of […]
“For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows” (1 Tim 6:10). Those who want money but don’t have it are caretakers of dream castles; those who have it and live for it […]