Maclaren says, So ‘when thou shalt be old’ your fancy will be gone, your physical strength will be gone, your freshness will be gone, your faculty of hoping will work feebly and have little to work on; on earth your sense of power will be humbled, and yet you will not want to be borne to the place whither you must be borne.
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Walking in the Word, in Christ
Saturday, October 12, 2024
John 21:18-19 - Jesus Predicts Peter's Martyrdom
Monday, October 7, 2024
John 21:15-17 - Jesus Restores Peter
Friday, October 4, 2024
John 21:9-14 - Eating Breakfast with Jesus
Promise: Jesus is the incarnate Lord of glory whom we should fear in reverent awe. Let us worship Him this day.
Thursday, October 3, 2024
John 21:1-8 - The Disciples Go Fishing
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
My Utmost for His Highest - October 1 - The Sphere of Exaltation
Jesus leadeth them up into a high mountain apart by themselves. - Mark 9:2
We have all had times on the mount, when we have seen things from God's standpoint and have wanted to stay there. The test of our spiritual life is the power to descend; if we have power to rise only, something is wrong. It is a great thing to be on the mount of God, but a man only gets there in order that afterwards he may get down among the devil-possessed and lift them up. We are not built for the mountains and the dawns and the aesthetic affinities, those are for moments of inspiration, that is all. We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle. Spiritual selfishness always wants repeated moments on the mount. We feel we could talk with angels and live like angels, if only we could stay on the mount. The times of exaltation are exceptional, they have their meaning in our life with God, but we must beware lest our spiritual selfishness wants to make them the only time.
We are apt to think that everything that happens is to be turned into useful teaching, it is to be turned into something better than teaching, viz., into character. The mount is not meant to teach us anything, it is meant to make us something. There is a great snare in asking--What is the use of it? In spiritual matters we can never calculate on that line. The moments on the mountain tops are rare moments, and they are meant for something in God's purpose.
-- Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
- From Oswald Chambers, "My Utmost for His Highest" - Classic Edition
Friday, September 27, 2024
John 20:30-31 - The Purpose of John's Gospel
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
John 20:24-29 - Doubting Thomas
What the Lord is Saying: The last passage was Jesus finishing up conversations with the disciples and now Thomas comes forward, though he wasn't with the disciples when Jesus came to them in the room. The other disciples told him that they had seen the Lord. Thomas responded with "I want proof.". A week later Jesus stood among them and told Thomas to do just that Thomas believes.