Solitude and Serenity
How busy we can become...and as a result, how empty! We mouth words, but they mean nothing. We find ourselves trafficking in unlived truths. We fake spirituality.
Written by Chuck Swindoll, these encouraging devotional thoughts are published seven days per week.
How busy we can become...and as a result, how empty! We mouth words, but they mean nothing. We find ourselves trafficking in unlived truths. We fake spirituality.
If you're waiting for a seamless, blemish-free week, friend, you're going to wait in vain. There is no such thing.
You want to see the end of the tunnel. Which is only natural, because once we see that little speck of light, we feel we can make it through to the finish.
If our message is a mirror image of the message of the world, the world yawns and goes on its way, saying, "What else is new? I've heard all that since I was born."
Following the will of God requires wisdom, clear thinking, and yes, even good old garden-variety common sense.
Make Hebrews 12:3 your aim: "Consider Him...so that you may not grow weary and lose heart."
If you are a hard-working, faithful employee, diligent, honest, productive, prompt, caring, working for a boss who is belligerent, stubborn, short-sighted, and ungrateful, and if you patiently endure that situation—that finds favour with God.
His faithfulness is unconditional, unending, and unswerving. Nothing we do can diminish it, and nothing we stop doing can increase it.
God never promised us a rose garden. He came up front with us and admitted that the arena of this world is not a "friend of grace to help us on to God."
Whenever I scope out the scene here where I live, I observe a large number of people who are pursuing the so-called successful life.