Nobody who has not tried it would believe how many difficulties are cleared out of a man’s road by the simple act of trying to follow Christ.
Alexander MacLaren
Life is not full or rich or sweet for many of us because we are handicapped by our doubts and hampered by our fears and enslaved by the unreasonable standards and requirements of a foolish world. It is the aim of Jesus to break the fetters and let life out to its completion.
Charles Edward Jefferson
Into the Life of Spring
Jesus said, “I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full” — John 10:10
There’s a winter of sin
between us, Father,
between me and
every neighbor,
between me and
who I was meant to be.
I’m cold, and life’s lost color.
I’ve believed lies
that promised life
but that led
only to this winter of sin.
But you, my Lord,
have led me
out of brown and barren fields
and into spring!
I see, I feel,
life returning everywhere!
Grass greens
beneath my feet.
Leaves unfold
above my head.
Morning birds
sing for me again.
I can stand
surrounded by blossoms
in the widening branches
of a magnolia tree
and dream.
I can gather lilacs
from the old hedges
and live
like never before.
There need be no winter of sin
between us anymore.
Jesus, you’ve brought me
into the life of spring!
Devotional poem © 2015 Michael Himick. Used with permission.
That They May Have Life
Jesus said, “I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full” — John 10:10
When a young man is put to learn a trade, he does so by working at it — and we learn the Truth which our Lord teaches by obeying His commands. . . . We know as much as we do.
Charles Spurgeon
There is not a single Bible portion that God wants us to study just to get a cranium full of knowledge or learning. The Bible always presents the truth and then makes the application: “Now, if this is true, you ought to do something about it!”
A. W. Tozer
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