A man can become religious much more easily than he can become Godly. He can be religious all by himself...but to be Godly, he must be made so by God in the first place, and walk with God in the second place. As our culture grows more antagonistic to God, it also becomes more antagonistic to the Godly man. Our culture accepts the religious...but is growing in its impatience and intolerance of the Godly. Yet even our struggle is light, and the Lord's yoke is easy...because He is with us. He is our strength, our high tower, our shield and our buckler. If I thought for a moment that being Godly rested in my strength, I would be overcome with doubt and fear because I know my weakness. But I put my hands to the plow, my shoulder to the work, and my knees to the ground in confident prayer because He is with me...He is with His church...and He is all any of us will ever need.
Humility has the effect of dulling the edge of our mistakes when we are wrong...while arrogance and pride sharpen that edge and we end up cutting a deeper wound.We should strive with great zeal and earnestness to always discern the will of God in...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
If you believe yourself a small sinner...you will have a small view of repentance, a small view of Christ, a small view of salvation, and a small view of God. One of the greatest obstacles to finding the "great salvation" spoken of in scripture is...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Outward Christianity that is not accompanied by inward Christianity is a terrible offense to God. The Christian lives we live outwardly will never go beyond the Christian lives we live inwardly. Our public prayer will never go beyond our private...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
