TFTD - October 2017

[Resource Manager]

26 October 2017

 

”Trials divide the world into two classes; those who fail and go down under them, and those who meet them successfully and gain strength of character through overcoming them. To the one class they are stumbling blocks; to the other they are stepping stones. To the one they are hindrances, to the other they are helps. It is not our trials but the way we respond to them that counts."

 

- H.O. Fanning

The Christadelphian 71: 437 (1934) 

[Resource Manager]

27 October 2017

 

"Only by witnessing a severe storm on the sea can we appreciate the awe-inspiring power of thousands of tons of water massed high in the heavens, standing for a moment like some huge stretch of mountain range, then falling away, leaving behind it a foaming valley which appears to sink to the very depths. Said the Psalmist: “They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; these see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep. For he commandeth and raiseth up the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof. They mount up to heaven, they go down to the depths” (Psalm 107:23-26). Perhaps nothing in nature illustrates more signally the power of the world, than the figure of the sea, from which so often drowning men are pulled to safety, and which ever opens its hungry jaws to receive them again should they slip."

 

- Wm. Hosking

The Life-Line (1952)

 

[Resource Manager]

28 October 2017

 

"... Today the evidences of God’s power and divinity are even greater than they were in Paul’s day. Men have explored the secrets of nature, or, the ways of God; the unity has become more and more evident. Reflecting on them what can we do but bow our heads in humble reverence, and worship God in the beauty of holiness?"

 

- W.H. Boulton

Reflections (1956) 

[Resource Manager]

29 October 2017

 

"Jesus can save because he partook of our nature with all its inherited weakness. He was made in all points like his brethren, and tempted as we are, but he never failed ... He even hated vain thoughts, and only loved the Law of God which was his meditation day and night. Thus he took hold of sinful, human nature, and conquered it, finally nailing it to the cross."

 

- Islip Collyer

As We Grow Older (1945)

[Resource Manager]

30 October 2017

 

"The meek will not leave their lives to chance. They will plan: but in planning they will say, "If the Lord will ..." Those words have a two-fold implication: the meek will make plans prayerfully so that they may be in harmony with God’s will; and they will submit to God’s will if He should not see fit to let the plans run their course. The plans will thus be on the one hand righteous, and on the other hand contingent. In both respects they will stand in contrast to the human spirit of arrogance. Where human nature boasts, they are "silent" before the Lord (Hebrew cf. Psalm 37:7)."

 

- L.G. Sargent

If the Lord Will (1958)

[Resource Manager]

31 October 2017

 

"For it is God which worketh in you, both to will and to do of his good pleasure" (Philippians 2:13). "The will of God is free to work in us. We are not bound by the unbending impersonal laws and habits of mankind, only so far as we allow ourselves to be. If only we could find in ourselves that inner depth of feeling that the power of God is working both as to will and deed in our weak and finite characters, we should in some measure find that the harmony of our own will with that of the Supreme, if difficult, is not impossible."

 

- K. Clark

The Peace of God (1957)