Good Words for Today

"Contemplate the love of Christ, and you will love. Stand before that mirror, reflect Christ's character, and you will be changed into the same image from tenderness to tenderness. There is no other way." Henry Drummond

"I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good thing, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow human being let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again." Quaker proverb

“God can never make us wine if we object to the fingers he uses to crush us with. If God would only use his own fingers and make me broken bread and poured-out wine in a special way! But when he uses someone whom we dislike, or some set of circumstances to which we said we would never submit, we object. We must never choose the scene of our own martyrdom. If ever we are going to be made wine to drink, we will have to be crushed. You cannot drink grapes. Grapes become wine only when they have been squeezed.” Oswald Chambers

"People say that God does not speak to men as he did long ago. The truer statement is that men do not listen today as they did long ago." J. Sidlow Baxter

"Thou that hast given so much to me, Give one thing more, a grateful heart." George Herbert (1633)

"When devils engage, the billows arise, And horribly rage, and threaten the skies: Their fury shall never our steadfastness shock, The weakest believer is built on a rock." Charles Wesley, 1744

"Oh, dear friends, you may rejoice. God has laid no embargo upon rejoicing; he puts no restriction upon happiness. Do believe it that you are permitted to be happy. Do believe that there is no ordinance of God commanding you to be miserable." Charles Spurgeon

As a Christian, your whole life is to be one great, “Thank you, Lord.”

The foundation of gratitude is the expectation of nothing.

If you refuse to give thanks in every situation, you are virtually saying that you know better than God how to run the universe. By giving thanks when we don’t feel like it, we are proclaiming that God’s wisdom is greater than ours.

Jesus taught us to pro-actively return good to those who have done us evil. For most of us, it will be all we can do not to smack someone in the face. To turn the other cheek is a truly supernatural act.

"God doesn't love some future version of you. He loves you now." Matt Chandler

Sometimes people say, “I lost my temper.” But you didn't lose your temper; you found it! Some of us need to lose our temper and never find it again.

“This triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.” G. K. Chesterton

"He who believes in the gospel must become weak and foolish before men, so that he may be strong and wise in the power and wisdom of God." Martin Luther

"Lord, put me in over my head." Charlie Riggs

The best way to discover God’s will for the future is to do what you know to be the will of God right now.

“If you want to be a leader, you’re going to end up frustrated in life, because very few people want to be led. But if you aim to be a servant, you’ll never be disappointed.” Frank Warren

The problem with the world is not the world. The problem with the world is the church.

It is perfectly possible to obey God with a rotten attitude.

"It is the responsibility of each generation to reach their generation for Christ." Jack Wyrtzen

Small obedience always beats great intentions.

If you are unwilling to take a chance, you can never discover what living by faith is all about.

To all our questions, God replies, “I AM WHO I AM” (Exodus 3:14). The answer is a Person, not an explanation. Someone may reply, “But that’s not enough. I want a real answer.” To which I reply, “If God himself is not enough, then no answer would ever satisfy you.”

All prayer is based on this simple truth: He runs the universe, we don’t. We pray because he’s in charge and we’re not.

"The reason why many get so little out of their Bible reading is simply because they are not willing to think. Intellectual laziness lies at the bottom of a large per cent of fruitless Bible reading." R. A. Torrey

Anything that makes us like Jesus is good for us.

"O how the world to evil allures me! O how my heart is tempted to sin! I must tell Jesus, and He will help me Over the world the victory to win." Elisha Hoffman, 1893

"We should, each one, ask ourselves, What place lies nearest to me, nearest in opportunity and hope of influence? To what friend, to what neighbor, can I speak a word or do an act that shall help to bring him into contact with Christ?" John Ker

In 1981 when President Reagan was nearly assassinated, his pastor from California came to see him in the hospital in Washington, D.C. Pastor Don Moomaw took the president’s hand and asked him, “How is it with you and the Lord?” “Everything is fine with me and the Lord,” replied Mr. Reagan. “How do you know?” The answer was simple and profound: “I have a Savior.”

"O may Thy soldiers, faithful, true and bold, Fight as the saints who nobly fought of old, And win with them the victor’s crown of gold. Alleluia, Alleluia!" "And when the strife is fierce, the warfare long, Steals on the ear the distant triumph song, And hearts are brave, again, and arms are strong. Alleluia, Alleluia!" From the hymn "For All the Saints" by William How, 1864

“And though this world, with devils filled, Should threaten to undo us; We will not fear, for God hath willed His truth to triumph through us.” Martin Luther

Coming to Christ is not difficult. You don’t have to have strong faith. You can have weak faith as long as it is resting upon a strong object. And who could be stronger than Jesus Christ Himself?

How much faith does it take to go to heaven? It depends. The answer is not much and all you’ve got. If you are willing to trust Jesus Christ with as much faith as you happen to have, you can be saved.

"Thee I shall constantly proclaim, Though earth and hell oppose; Bold to confess Thy glorious Name Before a world of foes." Charles Wesley, 1749

We shouldn't make excuses for Jesus. He said he came not to bring peace, but a sword. He is the great divider of humanity. We do him no favors when we water down his claims.

With regard to death, there is bad news and good news. The bad news is that we're all going to die someday. The good news is, if you know Jesus, when you die you go straight to heaven. Which means that If you know the Lord, you're never really dead.

"A scared world needs a fearless church." A.W. Tozer

"I feel more affinity with unsophisticated believers than with the Christian elite. . . . I stand with the Bible-thumpers." John Frame

"Men who are strong are always men who are fixed somewhere, who have a conviction from which they cannot be separated by argument, which cannot be changed, whatever the circumstances in the midst of which they live. Sometimes these men are very narrow, but they are wonderfully strong; they are singularly obstinate, but they are splendidly dependable. Sometimes their convictions resolve themselves into two or three great fundamental truths, and they are never moved from them. Consequently, we always know where to find those men." G. Campbell Morgan