God Never Makes Mistakes Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. —2 Corinthians 12:9 God is especially close to us when we are lying on a sickbed. God will make the bed soft and will freshen it with …
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Eternity What we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he will give us later. —Romans 8:18 (TLB) Nowhere does the Bible teach that Christians are to be exempt from the tribulations and natural disasters that come upon the world. It does teach that the Christian can face tribulation, …
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The Unchanging God From everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. —Psalm 90:2 Have you ever thought about the collapse of time? From the days of the Lord Jesus Christ until about 1830, man could not travel any faster than a horse. In 1960, a man went into space and traveled …
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Get in the Word Despise God’s Word and find yourself in trouble. Obey it and succeed. —Proverbs 13:13 (TLB) As Christians, we have the Spirit of God in us. But ours is the responsibility to keep sin out of our lives so that the Spirit can produce His fruit in …
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Who so trusteth in the Lord, happy is he. —Proverbs 16:20 There is much in our nature that perplexes us. Many people are disturbed as they confront the troubling riddle of their own existence. They are bewildered by their proneness to sin and evil. They quake and tremble at the …
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We started out bad, being born with evil natures. . . . But God is so rich in mercy . . . he gave us back our lives again when he raised Christ from the dead . . . —Ephesians 2:3,4 (TLB) I am reminded of a period when all …
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Keep yourselves in the love of God . . . —Jude 21 The Bible is a revelation of the fact that God is love. Many people misunderstand the attribute of God’s nature which is love. “God is love” does not mean that everything is sweet, beautiful, and happy, and that …
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The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy . . . —Zephaniah 3:17 The world’s millions could come down to the beach and reach out their hands to be filled with sea water. They could each take …
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Let us love one another; for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. . . . And this commandment have we from him, that he who loveth God love his brother also. —1 John 4:7,21 If you would know the measure …
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There is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. —Proverbs 18:24 How many lonely people there are today! God did not create man to live in miserable inner loneliness. In that first Eden, God Himself came down to keep the man He had made from being lonely. One of …
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