LET ME HELP YOU.....

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 help you through this day.  The challenges you face are far too great for you to handle alone.  You are keenly aware of your helplessness in the scheme of events you face.  This awareness opens up a choice; to doggedly go it alone or to walk with Me in humble steps of dependence.  Actually this choice is continually before you, but difficulties high light the decision-making process.  So, consider it all joy whenever you are enveloped in various trials.  These are gifts from Me, reminding you to rely on Me alone.

"Jesus Calling - Enjoying Peace in His Presence"

Let Me Help You.....

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 Help You through this day.  The challenges you face are far too great for you to handle alone.  You are keenly aware of your helplessness in the scheme of events you face.  This awareness opens up a choice to doggedly go it alone or to walk with Me in humble steps of dependence.  Actually, this choice is continually before you, but difficulties highlight the decision-making process.  So, consider it all joy whenever you are enveloped in various trials.  These are gifts from Me, reminding you to rely on Me alone.

From the Book,  "Jesus Calling - Enjoying Peace in His Presence"

Shining Pathway

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

"But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day."                                                                                                                                 Proverbs 4:18

     The upward course of the righteous is not always smooth.  Often there are difficulties, winding ways of perplexity, and annoying obstacles of hard trial; yet it leads eventually to the invigorating heights of final victory in Christ!  Often the ascent is so gradual, the path so circuitous that its celestial destiny is not obvious to the unenlightened eye.  The zig-zag course is designed by God to break the force of the hill lest the ascent be too steep, too breath-taking, too difficult.  By faith, however, we are certain that the path He chooses for us is ever onward and upward toward the noonday splendor of full blessing.  He has promised that it shall end in "perfect day."  Our Saviour, as He did at the wedding at Cana, reserves the "best wine" until the last!

     Recently someone sent me a bulletin in which Rev. Kenneth Cober points out that the worldly man's broadway of carnal desire is "a dead-end street that terminates in frustration and despair.  Lord Byron gave himself wholeheartedly to the pursuit of pleasure, but at the age of 35 he was writing -
                                                            My days are in the yellow leaf,
                                                                The flowers and fruits of love are gone,
                                                            The worm, the canker, and the grief
                                                                Are mine alone.
     Compare the word of Lord Byron with those of Adam Clarke, a Christian saint and Biblical expositor.  At 85 we hear him saying - 'I have passed through the springtime of life.  I have withstood the heat of its summer.  I have culled the fruits of its fall.  I am even now enduring the rigors of its winter, but at no great distance, I see the approach of a new, eternal springtime.  Hallelujah!'"

     Yes, the worldly avenue of pleasure is a dead-end street; but those of us who are on the narrow "shining pathway" know that it progresses toward God and will eventually terminate in a blaze of glory in His presence!

"Bread For Each Day"

The Hard-Boiled Missionary

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 e put away from you, with all malice."  Ephesians  4:31

             ". . . all things work together for good to them that love God."  Romans  8:28

     A lady who had been suffering for a long time was visited by many friends seeking to comfort her with verses of Scripture.  One verse which was used most frequently was Romans 8:28.  Instead of being encouraged, she began to resent the verse repeated so monotonously by those who were well and healthy. They little realized that it is easy to quote these verses glibly and loosely, when not in the same situation.  It is not always easy to understand that our sufferings and trials and pain are for a purpose.  It takes great faith to appropriate it.  Let us be careful not to thoughtlessly quote Scriptures, for sometimes we cannot see God's purpose until later when the testing is past.

     Yet it is true, whether we realize it or not, that everything God permits to come into our lives must have a reason.  Whatever God sends up on us is necessary and for some good purpose which we shall understand afterward.

     A missionary was captured by cannibals.  "I suppose you intend to eat me?"  said the missionary, and the chief grunted his affirmation.  "Try a sample first, and see if you like it,"  said the missionary as he took his knife and cut a slab from the calf of his leg and handed it to him.  "Try this and see."  The chief took one bite and choked.  The missionary had a cork let.  The chief wanted no more of it and the missionary was spared. Years before, he had thought it a great misfortune to lose his leg and to wear an artificial one, but afterward it saved his life.  It worked out "for good."

"Bread For Life"