Chaim Potok said: “What non-Jews are doing – if I can get it from the letters they are sending me – is that they are simply translating themselves into the particular context of the people I’m writing about. So instead of being a Jew, you are a Baptist; instead of being an Orthodox Jew, you are a Catholic; and the dynamic is the same. The particular words or expressions that might be used might be Jewish or what have you,…
Theodore Roosevelt said: “It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the one who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust, sweat, and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who…
Whoever finds Wisdom finds life and favour (Proverbs 8:35). Yes, Wisdom presents two incomparable gifts; life and favour from the Lord. To love true wisdom is to receive these; to reject wisdom is to wrong one’s own soul and to love death. Indeed, to obtain favour from the Lord is undoubtedly preferred to live. Yes, it gives life the favourable meaning! It’s unquestionably better than life. God’s kindness is no vacant courtesy; it does care for much more than the winter’s sun. The winter’s sun projects…
Yes, I say wait for the Lord’s intervention at all times! J. Heinrich Arnold said: “Live intensively in the expectation of the Lord! He who does not wait for the Lord in every aspect of his life does not wait at all. I ask myself every evening, have I really loved enough, hoped enough, fought enough, worked enough? The expectation of the kingdom must lead to deeds.”
Yes, I mean God’s intervention in your situation! Do you remember that Jesus arrived at Bethany for Lazarus after Lazarus had died and buried for four days (John 11:38-44)? Practically speaking, was it not too late for Christ to intervene? He got the divine leading that Lazarus was sick; He did not intervene. He knew when Lazarus died; He only announced it! At last, He was four days late to meet the situation. Mary and Martha confirmed it was too…
How do you define a part-time Christian or a part-time believer? Whatever? Have you heard the saying that “part-time Christians cannot defeat full-time devils?” A call to walk with God is a call for total devotion. It’s a mandate for ceaseless prayer-life. I mean, a need for a life that pray in and out of season. Put merely; constant prayer means everything a believer will do in the context of walking with God without failing. Ceaseless prayer-life does not stop…
In our walking with God and for Him to intervene on issues, it’s a call for unceasing prayer-life. I’ve always interpreted this to mean a life of journey with God in faith and righteousness. It’s a life full with the eternal hope that God will do it, and perfect it at His determining season. In other words, the call for ceaseless prayer is a call to journey with God in faith and righteousness. That’s it!!!
Yes, the loudness and the perseverance of Wisdom’s voice is that of an earnest friend who warns of danger now and ahead! Have you heard that Wisdom sees to the invisible, silence, and darkest walls? Yes, Wisdom would have cried so loud or continued for so long to be loved by you for your safety. Wisdom always knew the wrath that was hanging over human souls, the hell that was before them. That’s it!!!
Have you heard or noticed that God uses ordinary people to carry out His extraordinary plans? Well, the critical point is that wisdom is for ordinary people; I mean, people not confined to the academic quadrant of classroom or sacred domains of the church. It’s all about Wisdom taking an individual walking with God to high top of some mountain where only the hardiest and most determined will find extraordinary plans that God determined. Also, Wisdom attracts all and be…
Noah Van Niel said: “Perhaps now, having been deprived of people and connection and community for so long, we will appreciate anew how much we depend upon one another for our flourishing. Maybe not getting to be the church is exactly what the church needs to awaken the sense of longing and desire that will propel us back into communities of faith that feed us in ways we didn’t even know we needed. These communities possess a more capacious spirit…