Resource Manager Posted January 26, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2021 26 January 2021"The fruit of the Spirit is love–and if you can receive it, these (the qualities listed in Galatians 5:22) are the flavours, textures, colours: different and detectable but all part of the one fruit. Remember one thing: fruit is not magic. It does not appear overnight: growth is real but slow. Protection and cultivation are vital. Setbacks there will be. Waiting and working are not always contradictory. Let us never lose heart. It is, after all, the fruit of the Spirit. Fruit is God-created, not man-made." - Dennis GillettThe Genius of Discipleship Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted January 27, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2021 27 January 2021"The judgment when the Lord returns will be upon those "that know not God" (2 Thessalonians 1:8), even though the word of God has been multiplied many million fold. "Behold the goodness and severity of God ... on you goodness if you continue in his goodness" (Romans 11:22)." - John CarterSearchings of Heart (1954) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted January 28, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2021 28 January 2021"Stay close, whether the way be smooth or rough. He may well lead us into paths we would have avoided, left to our own wisdom. It is so easy to ask God to direct our paths, meaning all the time those paths we want to take!" "Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take." Proverbs 3:6 - Roy WaddoupThe Way of the Saints (1980) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted January 29, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 29, 2021 29 January 2021"All that was right, all that God requires of His children, was embodied in Jesus. He could say, "I am the truth". We see in him one of absolute integrity, of single-minded devotion to the will of God, whose life was spent in "doing justly, in loving mercy and walking humbly with God". His was the truly upright life, without any shadow of duplicity. He had "a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure", in all his doings. Let us measure ourselves against him." - L.W. RichardsonA Just Weight and a Just Measure (1950) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted January 30, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2021 30 January 2021"And at midnight" When the weariness of waiting is lost in the sleep of death the virgins are awakened. The message which greets them is one that countless multitudes have yearned to hear: "Behold, the bridegroom comes; go you out to meet him!" The virgins arise, and the lamps are again picked up. Some shine with light immediately, others fail to cast even a glimmer. Imagine the scene! A multitude, incorporating the responsible throughout all the ages from Adam’s day onward, standing once again among the living! All will be fully aware of the purpose of their recall. They will realise that Christ has come to set up the Kingdom of God upon earth. They will be aware too, that the judgement precedes the era of divine rule. What joy! what sorrow! what serenity of mind! what panic! what elation, yet consternation! At some moment in the days ahead (it may be in the days immediately ahead) the Master will suddenly return, and we, together with those from the resurrection, will be summoned to appear before him." - Wm. HoskingAt Midnight There Was a Cry Made (1976) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted January 31, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2021 31 January 2021"Patient longsuffering is essential if we are to understand the majestically unhurried tempo at which God works. "For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night" (Psalm 90:4). Most good things grow slowly. As the oak from the acorn, as the child in the womb, neither can be hurried. They have their own tempo. It is no easy thing in a world in a hurry to be still and watchful like a sentry looking for the dawn with the ability to wait patiently. "Be you also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh" (James 5:8). The apostle’s advice is as valid in the twentieth century as in the first." - Claud LambThe Fruit of the Spirit (1981) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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