George MacDonald on Faith

To trust in spite of the look of being forsaken; to keep crying out into the vast, whence comes no returning voice, and where seems no hearing; to see the machinery of the world pauselessly grinding on as if self-moved, caring for no life, nor shifting a hair-breadth for all entreaty, and yet believe that God is awake and utterly loving; to desire nothing but what comes meant for us from His hand; to wait patiently, ready to die of hunger, fearing only lest faith should fail--such is the victory that overcometh the world, such is faith indeed.

-George MacDonald

meme about Kindness in Outreach.

 

Verse of the Day: July 15, 2023

...get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you.

-James 1:21 

The church collective: doubt and faith.

The average evangelical church lies under a shadow of quiet doubting. The doubt is not the unbelief that argues against Scripture, but worse than that. It is the chronic unbelief that does not know what faith means.

-AW Tozer

Meme: Proverbs 21:2 "...the Lord weighs the heart..."

 

We know God has great wrath and sits in judgement, but how many know that God's love and mercy is as great as his wrath?

Verse of the Day, July 14, 2023

If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

Spurgeon on service in the Kingdom.

Yonder city of the great King is a place of active service. Ransomed spirits serve him day and night in his temple. They never cease to fulfil the good pleasure of their King. They always "rest," so far as ease and freedom from care is concerned; and never "rest," in the sense of indolence or inactivity.

-Charles Spurgeon

Free from care, but not inactive.  Most of the time isn't a pleasure, a downright source of joy, to do the work of the kingdom?