Category: My Thoughts

I don’t like tests. But then, I guess no one really likes tests. Here is what Charles Stanley states in The Reason for My Hope:

“Just as any good teacher, the Holy Spirit also from time to time gives you tests–not so that He might give you a grade, but so that you might discover the areas in which you still need to grow as well as appreciate how much you have grown in certain ways. The tests that God sends your way are never intended to destroy you. Neither are they for God’s purposes of evaluation. He already knows your heart and what the outcome of the test will be. The test, rather, is for your sake. God wants you to know yourself better.”

“Where I am in five years is none of my business.”

Do you love Veggie tales? The creator, Phil Vischer, made this comment at the Writing for the Soul Conference in Denver. He had an awesome speach by the way, sound effects and all! This comment means, to me, that God is the only one who really knows my future–and I must trust Him with it. Phil Vischer has a new book, Me, Myself, & Bob. 

“They just need, what we all need, the living assurance that waiting on God can never be in vain.”

“Some are weary, and the time of waiting appears long. And some are feeble, and scarcely know how to wait. And some are so entangled in the effort of their prayers and their work, they think that they can find no time to wait continually. Father, teach us all how to wait.” 

by Andrew Murray in Waiting on God

“No aid society is apt to do much, unless you have the missionary plank in it, too, because women centered alone on their own church work grow selfish, and our Lord did not put His churches here just to do work for themselves.”

By Mary Corbell Gambrell, about 1880, promoting the wider application of the gospel. Quote found in History of Woman’s Missionaory Union. ( I know, I read strange stuff. 🙂

Worship is the act of magnifying God. Enlarging our vision of him. Stepping into the cockpit to see where he sits and observe how he works. Of course, his size doesn’t change, but our perception of him does. As we draw nearer, he seems larger. Isn’t that what we need? A big view of God?

by Max Lucado in Just Like Jesus