“God is not out to reform our life. It is not His thought to bring it to a certain stage of refinement, for it is on a totally wrong plane. On that plane He cannot now bring man to glory. He must have a new man; one born anew, born of God. Regeneration and justification go together”–Watchman Nee, The Normal Christian Life, 338.
“What I am describing [The Revival of 1857] is a mighty work of the Spirit of God. It is when God takes hold of a nation and shakes it. What God did in 1857 He can still do today. In fact, it is happening in many countries in our world. Join me in prayer and repentance asking God to do it again. The promise has not changed, and our God does not change. He desires that we have a change of heart and turn to Him”–Massimo Lorenzini, as seen on http://www.frontlinemin.org/revival.asp
“Adversity is a comma in our story, not a period. It is not the end . . .often, it is the point at which the story really gets good. After all, cloudless skies make for boring sunsets. Safe adventures make for boring stories”–Jon Acuff.
“To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men”–A.W. Tozer.
“Faith sees the reality of the unseen or invisible, and it includes a readiness to act as if the good anticipated in hope were already in hand because of the reality of God . . . .Jeremy Taylor drives the point home with the words: ‘He that believes dares trust God for the morrow, and is not more solicitous for the next year than he is is for that which is past.’ No one worries about what was going to happen last year”–Dallas Willard, Renovation of the Heart, 129.
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The story must be really getting good.
If adversity is a comma and not a period. If adversity is not the end but just when the story gets interesting. Then the story must really be getting interesting.
Just ran across this quote from an eleven o’clock Sunday May 7, 1933 worship service guide cover.
“Education does not mean teaching people to know that they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave. It is not teaching the youth of England the shapes of letters and the tricks of numbers; and leaving them to turn their arithmetic to roguery, and their literature to lust. It is, on the contrary, training them into the perfect exercise and kingly continence of their bodies and souls. It is a painful, continual, and difficult work; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise, —but above all— by example.” John Ruskin
You witnessed the results of such training in my Mother. At 16 she was likely attending the service with her Mother and paternal widowed Grandmother accompanied by her brother Frank Brigham who took them in after the bank took possession of their home. He planted shade trees for another to cut down and burn for her pleasure in hubris, enabled by another “church.” The burning of shade trees continues as defended actions constructed a paradigm others have bought into and now defend, their will be scavengers no doubt.
“The Truth is what must be loved above any relationship, for without Truth there can be no growth or depth of meaning to any relationship you wish to have.” paraphrase from Glynn Robinson Thank you Glynn. God knows; yet He leaves it to His People to Prove.
Blessings