Have Him Deeply in our Hearts

From a letter written to a young George Muller, containing very timely advice.

Only seek by watching and prayer more and more to be delivered from all vanity and self-complacency, by which even the true believer may be ensnared when he least expects it. Let it be your chief aim to be more and more humble, faithful, and quiet. May we not belong to those who say and write continually,’ Lord,’ ‘Lord,’ but who have Him not deeply in their hearts. Christianity consists not in words, but in power. There must be life in us. For, therefore, God loved us first that we might love Him in return; and that loving we might receive power, to be faithful to Him, and to conquer ourselves

Emphasis mine.

How do you Know He is Unknowable?

The agnostics’ conundrum.

The learned scientists of the agnostic school — in plain English, the school of ignorance — know, by reason of their own ignorance, that while all other instincts are provided for, this one, as strong as any, has and can have no provision made for it. And the One whom they have decreed to be the Unknowable, by that very decree they declare they know so well as to know that He cannot (or will not) reveal Himself to man! For if He be the Unknown, they cannot even pronounce Him the Unknowable and if He is not the Unknown, then the Unknowable He cannot be. – F. W. Grant

What makes the Dead Sea dead?

What makes the Dead Sea dead?

Because it is all the time receiving, never giving out anything.

Why is it that many Christians are cold? Because they are all the time receiving, never giving out an anything.

So much for fellowship

Saw a group of young people come to a church and excitedly head for a table. I (naively) thought to myself, “wow, they must have waited all week to see and talk to each other…”

And then they whipped out their phones and tablets and buried their heads in them.

So much for fellowship.

Full disclosure : my son went to join them! Haha!