The original Law kept people from forcing the offender to pay a greater price than the offense deserved. It also prevented people from taking personal revenge. Jesus replaced a law with an attitude: Be willing to suffer loss yourself rather than cause another to suffer. Of course, He applied this...
I recall stating to a friend, “I hear you lost your wife. I’m very sorry.” He replied, “No, I didn’t lose her. You can’t lose something when you know where it is—and I know where she is!” On the authority of the Word of God, we also know what will...
Jesus is with His people no matter where they are. Dr. G. Campbell Morgan told about an experience in his early Christian life that involved this statement. Morgan used to visit several elderly ladies once a week to read the Bible to them. When he came to the end of...
“Not as though I had already attained!” This is the statement of a great Christian who never permitted himself to be satisfied with his spiritual attainments. Obviously, the Apostle Paul was satisfied with Jesus Christ, but he was not satisfied with his Christian life. A sanctified dissatisfaction is the first...
True Christian love seeks to share with others and make them happy. It willingly carries the younger Christians, helping them along in their spiritual development. It does not endure them. It encourages them! Paul shared the two sources of spiritual power from which we must draw if we are...
Peter reminds believers that they are only “sojourners” on earth. Life is too short to waste in disobedience and sin. It was when Lot stopped being a sojourner and became a resident in Sodom that he lost his consecration and his testimony. Everything he lived for went up in...
Jesus did not think of Himself; He thought of others. His attitude was that of unselfish concern for others. This is “the mind of Christ,” an attitude that says, “I cannot keep my privileges for myself, I must use them for others; and to do this, I will gladly lay...
The home is the first place where Christian love should be practiced. A Christian home begins with a Christian marriage in the will of God. This means loyalty and purity. Sex outside of marriage is sinful and destructive; sex within the protective bonds of marriage can be enriching and glorifying...
How can mortal man penetrate beyond the grave and find assurance and peace for his own heart? From Old Testament days till the present, mankind has tried to solve the riddle of death and the afterlife. Philosophers have wrestled with the question of immortality. Spiritists have tried to communicate...
While attending a convention in Washington, D.C. I watched a Senate committee hearing on TV. The late Senator Hubert Humphrey was making a comment: “You must remember that in politics, how you stand depends on where you sit.” He was referring, of course, to the political party seating arrangement in...