Salvation starts when you accept Jesus but it never ends there. True salvation affects every part of your life. If salvation makes no difference in the way you live, what’s the point of being saved? If it doesn’t change the way you talk and think and make big decisions, if it doesn’t change your worldview and the way you evaluate your own career, what’s the point of being saved at all? A salvation that doesn’t change you is hardly worth having.
Thoughts
. To master temptation, let Christ master you.
. For hope today, remember the end of the story—eternity with God.
. God is worth waiting for; His time is always best.
. Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
. As we have opportunity, let us do good to all. —Galatians 6:10
Evangelism:
"Some people become tired at the end of ten minutes or half an hour of prayer. What will they do when they have to spend Eternity in the presence of God? We must begin the habit here and become used to being with God." - Sadhu Sundar Singh
2 Corinthians 1:3-4
13 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort,
4 who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.
Thoughts on Today's Verse....
We are comforted because we are heartbroken. We are comforted because we need a blessing. We are comforted because God loves us. We are comforted to comfort others. While each of the above statements is true, the last is the most crucial one. There is something about comfort that cannot be fully realized until it is shared with someone else. It is that final step in the healing process of grief, disappointment, hurt, and loss. Until we share the comfort we have received, until we pass it on to another, our comfort is weak and shallow and limited. Comfort — pass it on!
Quotes on Old Age
- The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young. - Oscar Wilde
- The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquility of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. - W. Somerset Maugham
- No man loves life like him that's growing old. - Sophocles, Acrisus
Thoughts
. To master temptation, let Christ master you.
. For hope today, remember the end of the story—eternity with God.
. God is worth waiting for; His time is always best.
. Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
. As we have opportunity, let us do good to all. —Galatians 6:10
Evangelism:
"Some people become tired at the end of ten minutes or half an hour of prayer. What will they do when they have to spend Eternity in the presence of God? We must begin the habit here and become used to being with God." - Sadhu Sundar Singh
2 Corinthians 1:3-4
13 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort,
4 who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.
Thoughts on Today's Verse....
We are comforted because we are heartbroken. We are comforted because we need a blessing. We are comforted because God loves us. We are comforted to comfort others. While each of the above statements is true, the last is the most crucial one. There is something about comfort that cannot be fully realized until it is shared with someone else. It is that final step in the healing process of grief, disappointment, hurt, and loss. Until we share the comfort we have received, until we pass it on to another, our comfort is weak and shallow and limited. Comfort — pass it on!
Quotes on Old Age
- The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young. - Oscar Wilde
- The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquility of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. - W. Somerset Maugham
- No man loves life like him that's growing old. - Sophocles, Acrisus
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