THE TIPTOE OF EXPECTANCY
Hebrews 11:1-10
Faith is being sure about the thing you hope for. Hope is more than desire; it is expectancy. The inner eye looks out and sees the thing in actual possession or realization before it really is. And so the life is held true to God. In spite of depression or of opposition one holds steady and quiet and true and keeps sweet. And the thing comes. God never fails. The fruits come, big and juicy.
THE ONE UNFAILING THING
Acts 7:1-8
The one unfailing quantity in life, and the only one, is—what? Banks fail, even with the Government guarantee back of them. Investments prove utterly unprofitable sometimes. Friends? Yes, they fail too, for lack of strength when not for lack of love. By the time a man gets the figure four at the beginning of his age, he finds that every thing and every one has failed sometime, with the rare exceptions that prove the truth of the statement. But God, Jesus—never yet.
Isaiah 53:3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Think about these questions as you meditate on the verse. What does this verse teach me? How does this verse apply to my Life?
CHOOSING GOD’S CHOICE
Genesis 17:1-8
God has his plan for each life. He needs us in his plan for the world. He asks for the use of our lives. He proposes a working agreement. It’s something quite apart from salvation. It’s the use of our lives in his great purpose in the earth. And the one condition that he requires is that we follow fully, not only in our choice of right, but in our choice of his plans.
IS YOUR LIFE SAVED TOO?
Genesis 12:1-9
The call was clear. Abram had no doubt about it. It wasn’t an easy call to follow. He could have stayed where he was and worshiped the true God in the midst of idolatry. That would have been a good thing to do in itself. But it wasn’t the God-thing. His soul would have been saved, but his life lost, his opportunity gone, and gone forever. Is your life being saved? or only your soul?
THE SHORT ROAD
Psalms 119:97-105
Eating, breathing, sleeping, exercising— this is the common road to bodily health and vigor. Food, air, rest, activity—this is the road to Christian growth and vigor: the food of the Word well chewed; the fresh air of the Holy Spirit breathed habitually; the rest of trusting God confidently, unquestioningly, in tight corners and everywhere else; the lending a warm, helping hand unstintingly to others. It’s an old road, and it leads straight to the goal.
