Hold Me Up!!

The first lesson we have to learn, is that without Divine help we cannot stand; and that with it we cannot fall. We must cultivate a spirit of lowly dependence and conscious weakness. We need a mightier strength than our own, which shall curb all this evil nature of ours, and restrain us from sin's deceits. When God's Spirit comes into a man's heart, He will deaden his desires after the world and forbidden ways. He will make us love and desire blessed and holier objects. He who has been fed on "the hidden manna" will not be likely to hanker after the leeks and onions that grew in the Nile mud in Egypt, however strong their smell and pungent their taste. 

He who has tasted the higher sweetness of God, will have his heart's desires after worldly delights strangely deadened and cooled. My heart, touched by the indwelling Spirit of God, will turn to Him and I shall find little sweetness in the otherwise tempting delicacies that earth can offer. God desires to cleanse us from the filth of the swine trough, and the rags of our exile and clothe us in fine linen, clean and white. 

If you submit yourself into His hands, He will give you the abilities to detect the serpents in the flowers, and new resolution to shake off the vipers into the fire.

[Alexander MacLaren] 

Psalm 119:117 ... Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto thy statutes continually.

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Being in Christ

Being in Christ, it is safe to forget the past; it is possible to be sure of the future; it is possible to be diligent in the present.

[Alexander MacLaren]

Isaiah 43:18-19 ... Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.  Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

Jeremiah 29:11 ...  For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

John 15:7 ... If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. ❤

Mother

ƸӜƷ  Did any of you, parents, ever hear your child wake from sleep with some panic fear and shriek the mother's name through the darkness? Was not that a more powerful appeal than all words? And, depend upon it, that the soul which cries aloud on God, "the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ," though it have "no language but a cry," will never call in vain.

[Alexander MacLaren]

 

 

 

ƸӜƷ  Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

[Billy Graham]

 

 

ƸӜƷ  I don't believe there are devils enough in hell to pull a boy out of the arms of a godly mother.

[Billy Sunday]

 

 

ƸӜƷ  The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

[Henry Ward Beecher]

 

 

ƸӜƷ  The impression that a praying mother leaves upon her children is life-long.

[D.L. Moody]

 

ƸӜƷ  Ladies, [motherhood] is a full-time job. Do not kid yourself that you can be a dental receptionist and a mother; that you can be a typist and a mom; that you can be a Vice President and a mom. One of the two things will win. Now look at your Bible and ask what you have to do.

[Alistair Begg]


ƸӜƷ  My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
[Georg Washington]


Titus 2:1-5 ... But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine: That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.  The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;  That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,  To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.❤

Two Truths

Embrace in one act the two truths --

thine own sin, and God's infinite mercy in Jesus Christ.

[Alexander MacLaren]

Psalm 32:5 ... I acknowledge my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

Proverbs 28:13 ... He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.


Romans 6:25 ... For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

1 John 1:9-10 ...  If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.  If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.❤

Cleavage in the Sky

The apostolic church thought more about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ than about death and heaven. The early Christians were looking, not for a cleft in the ground called a grave but for a cleavage in the sky called Glory.

[Alexander MacLaren]

Titus 2:13 … Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;

Hebrews 9:28 … So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

Jude 1:21 … Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

Luke 21:28 … And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh. ❤