Some businesses can be carried on at home, but others cannot. A man may make shoes in his back shop, but he can’t catch fish there, and he can’t sow seed there, either. It is in the nature of the case that the fisherman and the sower should go abroad. Now our great Exemplar, the […]
“Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox” (Prov. 14:4). Martin Luther, (1483-1546), irreversibly changed Christendom when he faced off with an empire at the little town of Worms. Germany. This single event so stirs us that, five centuries later, parents honor his daring by […]
Certainties are remedies,” says the poet. How true are his words. The businessman, when he has the certain knowledge that his business is sound and healthy, finds in the knowledge a remedy which kills his anxiety. The mariner, who is guided by his chart and compass, knows where the dangerous places are, and therefore has […]
Then answered Peter and said unto Him, Behold, we have forsaken all, and have followed Thee; what shall we have therefore?” (Matt. 19:27). Peter betrayed a wrong mind, the mind of the natural man in Matthew 19:27. His words betrayed a bargaining spirit. The Lord certainly allows the claims of service. At once He tells […]
Before you conclude from the cover that Uplook has gone to the dogs, give me a chance to explain. We have recently added a new four-legged member to the household, a tricolor Bassett hound named Rey-Mar Kayla Victoria. For those interested, the name Rey-Mar comes from the breeder. Victoria comes from an attempt to add […]
The expression “a thorn in the flesh” is known to nearly every man and woman to signify some kind of irritant, often identified as some person who is the source of irritation. If the Apostle Paul, who put the expression in Holy Scripture (2 Cor. 12:7), did not say what his thorn was. It could […]
How strange to Martha and Mary must have appeared the lack of the Lord’s response to their earnest appeal, “Lord, behold, he whom Thou lovest is sick”! But for us the record furnishes an illustration of the working of divine love and wisdom. Their hearts are exposed by the utterance of each one: “Lord, if […]
A spongy mass. We stop, crouch down, and really look at it for the first time. It is a dense tangle of vines, leaves, berries, tiny flowers, moss, and lichen. Delightful variety. Fellow saint, have you stopped lately for a thoughtful look at the walk by which your Lord has led you moment by moment? […]