From: Leonard Han
Obedience
(Dan Upchurch)
A little girl was playing in the kitchen one day, when her mother told her to
come and help do the dishes. The little girl continued to play. The mother
again told the young girl to come help with the dishes. Again the girl ignored
her.
Finally, the mother said, "Didn't you hear me? I said, 'Come help with the
dishes.' "
To which the little girl replied, "Oh, I heard you. I'm just not doing what you
said."
How many times do we treat God this way. We hear Him loud and clear, but we
just don't do what He tells us to.
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From: Leonard Han
A Christian Prison
(Max Lucado)
Near the city of Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, is a remarkable facility. Twenty
years ago the Brazilian government turned a prison over to two Christians. The
institution was renamed Humaita, and the plan was to run it on Christian
principles. With the exception of two full-time staff, all the work is done by
inmates. Families outside the prison adopt an inmate to work with during and
after his term. Chuck Colson visited the prison and made this report :
'When I visited Humaita I found the inmates smiling- particularly the murderer
who held the keys, opened the gates and let me in. Wherever I walked I saw men
at peace. I saw clean living areas, people working industriously. The walls
were decorated with Biblical sayings from Psalms and Proverbs... My guide
escorted me to the notorious prison cell once used for torture. Today, he told
me, that block houses only a single inmate. As we reached the end of a long
concrete corridor and he put the key in the lock, he paused and asked, "Are you
sure you want to go in?"
"Of course," I replied impatiently, "I've been in isolation cells all over the
world." Slowly he swung open the massive door, and I saw the prisoner in that
punishment cell: a crucifix, beautifully carved by the Humaita inmates-the
prisoner Jesus, hanging on a cross.
"He's doing time for the rest of us," my guide said softly."
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From: Suzianty Herawati
"Exceeding great and precious promises." --2 Peter 1:4
If you would know experimentally the preciousness of the promises, and enjoy
them in your own heart, _meditate much upon them_. There are promises which are
like grapes in the
wine-press; if you will tread them the juice will flow. Thinking over the
hallowed words will often be the prelude to their fulfillment. While you are
musing upon them, the boon which you
are seeking will insensibly come to you. Many a Christian who has thirsted for
the promise has found the favour which it ensured gently distilling into his
soul even while he has been
considering the divine record; and he has rejoiced that ever he was led to lay
the promise near his heart.
But besides _meditating_ upon the promises, _seek in thy soul to receive
them as being the very words of God_. Speak to thy soul thus, "If I were
dealing with a man's promise, I should carefully consider the ability and the
character of the man who had covenanted with me. So with the promise of God; my
eye must not be so much fixed upon the greatness of the mercy--that may stagger
me; as upon the greatness of the promiser--that will cheer me. My soul, it is
God, even thy God, God that cannot lie, who speaks to thee. This word of His
which thou art now considering is as true as His own existence. He is a God
unchangeable. He has not altered the thing which has gone out of His mouth, nor
called back one single consolatory sentence. Nor doth He lack any power; it is
the God that made the heavens and
the earth who has spoken thus. Nor can He fail in wisdom as to the time when He
will bestow the favours, for He knoweth when it is best to give and when better
to withhold. Therefore, seeing that it is the word of a God so true, so
immutable, so powerful, so wise, I will and must believe the promise." If we
thus meditate upon the promises, and consider the Promiser, we shall experience
their sweetness, and obtain their fulfillment.
by CH Spurgeon
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