LET ME INFUSE MY PEACE.....

Come, sit, and enjoy a cup of tea or coffee in the comfort of the Lord: "Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice."  Ephesians 4:31

Let me infuse My Peace into your innermost being.  As you sit quietly in the Light of My Presence, you can sense Peace growing within you.  This is not something that you accomplish through self-discipline and willpower: it is opening yourself to receive My blessing.

In this age of independence, people find it hard to acknowledge their neediness.  However, I have taken you along a path that has highlighted  your need for Me:  placing  you in situations where your strengths were irrelevant and your weaknesses were glaringly evident.  Through the aridity of those desert marches, I have drawn  you closer and closer to Myself.  You have discovered flowers of Peace blossoming in the most desolate places.  You have learned to thank Me for hard times and difficult journeys, trusting that through them I accomplish My best work.  You have realized that needing Me is the key to knowing Me intimately, which is the gift above all gifts.

"Jesus Calling - Enjoying Peace in His Presence"

The Resurrection - Incredible?

Come, sit, and enjoy a cup of tea or coffee in the comfort of the Lord:  "Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice."  Ephesians  4:31

    "Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?"
                                                                                                                       Acts  26:8

     How is it possible that men should doubt the resurrection from the dead?  It is far more incredible that there should be no resurrection.  The surprised question of Paul to King Agrippa was,  "Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?"  If there be no resurrection, then life loses all its meaning; it becomes a hollow mockery.  Then God who created us is a God of caprice and sadism.  Is this life all?  Just a few years of alternate crying and laughing - mostly crying - and then darkness? Then with Paul we can say,  "If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable." But it should not be incredible, for things all around us remind us of resurrection.  The buds on the trees, the flowers in the garden, the emerging life after a long winter of inactivity - all proclaim the resurrection.

     In an ancient tomb in France, buried under tons of debris, archaeologists found flower seeds which had been there for two thousand years!  The explorer took the seeds and planted them and they grew. Egyptian garden peas which had been buried for three thousand years were brought out and planted on the fourth of June, 1844.  Within a few days they had germinated and broken the ground.  Buried 3000 years - then resurrected.  Why then should it be thought a thing incredible that God should raise the dead?  If God could cause a lump of clay to become alive at the creation of man, why then think it incredible for this same God to bring a resurrection from the dead?  Yes, it would be most incredible that after the life He lived Jesus should remain in death.  Hallelujah!  Christ arose!

"Bread For Each Day"

The Great Creator Our Helper

Come, sit, and enjoy a cup of tea or coffee in the comfort of the Lord:  "Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamour and evil speaking be put away from you with all malice."  Ephesians  4:31

"...I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:  Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number."  Job  5:8,9

     It is comforting to know that the all-powerful Creator, whose hand of wonder is marvelously displayed in all of nature, is the same loving Heavenly Father who is equally mighty to help His children in their times of need.  With confidence, therefore, we can rest our cause in His great all-knowing care, assured that the same wonders we see in nature will be matched by the gracious blessings of His kindly providences.  An unknown author underlines this thought as follows:

     "Consider the little bees that organizes a city that builds 10,000 cells for honey, 12,000 cells for larvae, and finally, a very special cell for the mother queen; a little bee that observes the increasing heat and, when the wax may melt and the honey be lost, organizes the swarm into squads, puts sentinels at the entrances, glues the feet down, and then with flying wings, creates a system of ventilation to cool the honey that makes an electric fan seem tawdry - a little honey bee that will include 20 square miles in the field over whose flowers it has oversight.  If a tiny brain in a bee performs such wonders, who are you that you should question the guidance of God?  Lift up your eyes and behold the hand that supports the stars without pillars the God who guides the planet without collision - He it is who cares for you!"

     Yes, this all-knowing, gracious God will "guide you with His eye" and uphold you with His everlasting arms.  Rest confidently today in the center of His will.

"Bread For Each Day"