A songwriter once penned the words “What will you do with Jesus? Neutral you cannot be.” This is a call to each one of us. The joy and happiness of our present life is determined by how we answer that question. Our eternal destiny is determined by our answer.
Have you suffered an injury lately? Or perhaps you have suffered a financial loss or some other thing that has tested your faith? What does the Bible say about the feelings and attitudes Christians should have toward such things?
“Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them” (Genesis 3:21).
It used to be said in England that “Every man’s home is his castle, and the King himself need knock before asking entrance.” I have traveled in England several times in the last few years. England is noted for its castles. I have visited a few. Here are my observations.
One day I looked at myself,
At the self that Christ can see;
I saw the person I am today
And the one I ought to be.
The United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing says it costs about sixty-two dollars to print 1,000 bills of paper money. Each bill, regardless of its face value, costs about 6.2 cents to produce. In that sense a one-dollar bill is as valuable as a one-hundred-dollar bill!
“The most High ruleth in the kingdom of men” (Daniel 4:17).
I recently visited the “King Tut and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs” display at the DallasMuseum of Art in Texas. We then went to the holocaust museum and had the rare privilege of hearing Max Glauben, a survivor of the Warsaw ghetto uprising. He described the horrible scenes of extermination that he experienced as a ten- to fifteen-year-old boy.
Three words remind us that God once gave a law. He wasn’t afraid to cut straight across men’s and women’s natural bent and say, “No, no! . . . Thou halt not . . .”