Good Words for Today
"O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife, Who more than self their country loved, And mercy more than life!" Katharine Lee Bates, 1895
He takes dead men and raises them. He takes enslaved men and seats them with Christ in heaven. He takes condemned men and saves them from judgment. Grace is thus God’s total answer to the moral ruin of the human race. It is such a complete answer that nothing else could ever be added to it.
Thank God for the Bible because without it, we would never know about Jesus. And without Jesus, we could never be saved.
The secret to my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible, “In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths.” George Washington Carver
"When all things seem against us To drive us to despair, We know one gate is open, One ear will hear our prayer." Oswald Allen
Lord Jesus, grant that we would not be even slightly disappointed at the conditions around us. You have made us for times like these. Give us a new vision of the difference we can make in our world. Amen
“I go now from a prison to a palace.” Presbyterian preacher Christopher Love, to his wife on the day of his beheading in the Tower of London, August 22, 1651.
"Souls in danger look above, Jesus completely saves, He will lift you by His love, out of the angry waves." James Rowe
"When I feel the serpent at my heel may I remember him whose heel was bruised, but who, when bruised, broke the devil’s head." From "The Valley of Vision"
This is no time for compromise. Speak up for the Savior. Let your voice be heard so loudly that no one can doubt whose side you are on.
"Through many dangers, toils and snares, I have already come; ’Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far, And grace will lead me home." John Newton, 1779
“The earth will be the scene of the final triumph of Christ and his church and the scene of Satan’s final defeat. It is the dust of this earth that shall season Satan’s diet forever.” Donald Grey Barnhouse
“I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God. Music drives away the Devil and makes people happy; they forget thereby all wrath, unchastity, arrogance, and the like. Next after theology, I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.” Martin Luther
Lord Jesus, speed the days until your return. While I wait, grant me faith to believe that better days are just around the corner. Amen.
"For the last thirty years, I have looked for the face of Jesus in the people with whom I have disagreed." Henry Benjamin Whipple
“An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.” Rudyard Kipling
Open doors and adversaries generally go together.
"Riches I heed not, nor man's empty praise, Thou mine Inheritance, now and always." Old Irish Hymn, ca. 6th century
Holy Lord, thank you that your shoulders are strong enough to carry all my burdens today. Amen.
"The Devil is easy to identify. He appears when you're terribly tired and makes a very reasonable request which you know you shouldn't grant." Fiorello La Guardia
"No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.” George Jean Nathan
Life is a struggle that will continue till the day we die. There is no release from the battle. If we go AWOL, we simply find a bigger battle on the other side of the hill.
"We may trust Him fully all for us to do. They who trust Him wholly find Him wholly true." Francis Havergal
What Jesus accomplished in his death was so awesome, so total, so complete that it could never be repeated, not even by Jesus himself.
"A man may study everything else in the world, psychology, philosophy, pedagogy, and even theology, but if he does not study the Word of God he is not fitted for real work for God." R. A. Torrey
“These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties.” Abigail Adams
"There simply is no substitute for grace. It alone has the power to forgive, to enable, to transform and to deliver sinners like me and you." Paul Tripp
"He who cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself." George Herbert
God is not in the business of rubber stamping your plans.
Christianity is supremely a religion of conversion. It is built upon one fundamental and revolutionary premise: You don’t have to stay the way you are. Your life can be radically changed by God.
"Jesus loves me—He who died Heaven’s gate to open wide; He will wash away my sin, Let His little child come in." William Bradbury, 1862
May the joy of the Lord be my strength so that I may have a cheerful heart no matter what happens today. Amen.
Every temptation is a lie wrapped in a promise of freedom.
“We need a revival of faith. We need to believe again as our fathers believed—in Christ, who is both very God and true Man. We need to believe as they believed, that on the Cross He did something for man which man could never have done for himself, whereby man receives pardon and eternal life. We need to believe as they believed, that on the third day He rose again, bringing life and immortality to light. We need to believe that this Jesus is the one Redeemer of men, the one Saviour of souls, the one Intercessor between God and man, and that to Him men must come if they would have life. We need to believe all this as they believed it, so that we may preach it with the same passionate ardor and conviction wherewith they preached it.” J. D. Jones
God has ordained that our spiritual progress should be measured not by huge battles won or lost but by a thousand daily skirmishes no one else knows about.
"With Jesus I can take it With Him I know I can stand No matter what may come my way My life is in your hands." Kirk Franklin
Are you worried about your future? Fear not. Don’t rush the river. Enjoy these days as part of God’s plan for your life. Go with the flow—and soon enough God will bring you into a safe harbor
Jesus was called the friend of sinners. Would anyone say that about us?
The Holy Spirit draws people to Jesus. All you need to do is to be a link in the chain that God uses to bring people to himself.
"Jesus didn't say, 'I am finished.' He said, 'It is finished.' He was just getting started." Tony Evans