Dear Ones: Hope is very powerful thing. A blessed, anticipated result at a future time can carry one over some very rocky and dangerous roads. I heard of a brother in Christ who was very close to death, but just the cleaar picture he had in his mind of him walking out of the hospital,…
Dear Ones: If ever there was a reality that we must come to grips with, it is our limitations. How much of the spectrum of light do we see? A very small portion. Can we SEE a thought or an intention of the heart. Without the use of modern technology, can we see into…
Dear Ones: Yesterday we began with the question, “Who is God?” There is in that question another one embedded: “Can we truly KNOW God?” Or, do we just know facts, and some truths about Him? I venture to say, from the testimony of those who have gone before, that our greatest quest is not to…
Dear Ones: And how shall we know God, His character, His attributes? How IS He? How is it that so many have known Him, and this revealed by the mosaic of truths concerning Him, and yet, we have grasped so little? You would not think that Psalm 51 would reveal to us essential aspects of…
Dear Ones: In Psalm 45, with the evident reference to the Lord Jesus, the psalmist writes: “…God hath blessed Thee forever.” (v.2) We might look at that declaration and say, “Well, certainly that applies to the Lord Jesus, but how can that ever apply to me?” If we go to the New Testament, to Ephesians…
Dear Ones: There comes a point in the course of life, and Christian experience (perhaps at different times…), when there is a specific “call to arms” by the Holy Spirit. Often this pertains to a certain set of circumstances, or conviction, but primarily because the Spirit of God works in our hearts to persuade us…
Dear Ones: There are certain very beautiful phrases in the Word of God which unveil to us, with stark and utter simplicity, the great concept of “fullness,” and what are to be our expectations in knowing this fullness. In Psalm 65:9, we read: “…the river of God is FULL of water.” What does David mean…
Dear Ones: Embedded in Psalm 23 is a short phrase which reveals to us what we truly are, and were we truly live. But more importantly, it reveals to us the One who is sovereign, and whose benevolent and good hand is upon us, with a grip that will never let us go, and who…
Dear Ones: It is interesting to look at nature and learn the great lessons being taught by our Maker. Jesus used the example of the vine and the branches to illustrate the great truths of union and communion, of abiding and fruit-bearing. This picture illustrates the “natural flow” of the life-giving sap through the entirety…
Dear Ones: When Joshua was commissioned to lead the people across the Jordan River into the Promised Land, he and the people were in unchartered territory. There were enemies before them on the other side of Jordan, and a desert behind, which barred their retreat. How were they to KNOW the way, and this with…