(James Smith, “The Believer’s Companion in Seasons of Affliction and Trouble” 1842) “Surely there is on end; and your expectation shall not be cut off.” Proverbs 23:18 Christian! There is an end to all your troubles, trials, and temptations–you will survive them all, and rise superior to them. There is an end to all your [...]
Encouragement
(James Smith, “The Believer’s Companion in Seasons of Affliction and Trouble” 1842) “Now if we are children, then we are heirs–heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in His sufferings in order that we may also share in His glory!” Romans 8:17 The spiritual mind is like a bird locked up in a [...]
(James Smith, “The Believer’s Companion in Seasons of Affliction and Trouble” 1842) “All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance. And they confessed that they werestrangers and pilgrims on the earth!” Hebrews 11:13 Every believer is a pilgrim. He [...]
What a solemn charge is here! (James Smith, “The Believer’s Companion in Seasons of Affliction and Trouble” 1842) “You have become weary of Me!” Isaiah 43:22 What a solemn charge is here! And yet who can plead, ‘Not guilty’? To be wearied of man–weak, vain, fickle, changing man–is no wonder; but to be weary of [...]
(J.R. Miller, “Daily Bible Readings in the Life of Christ” 1890) “Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Does he not leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it? And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his [...]
It is hard to let familiar thought patterns go. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building, supporting them and developing habits that depend on them. Like a man who has worn eyeglasses so long that he forgets he has them on, we forget that the world looks to us the way it [...]
To change is to become something different from that which you were before. Whether we realize it or not we are always changing and we are changing into that with which we are the most intimately acquainted. It’s no secret that other people influence our lives. This is a widely understood fact of life. Sciences [...]
