This may be the last letter I ever write to you. It may be the last communication we have. Since you have it, I hope you will keep it and read it often. I wish I had many things to say. I wish there were many encouraging words, wise thoughts and insights to help you each time you pick it up. It seems to me that we should keep an arsenal of such thoughts for our daily defense. By keeping such things close to your thinking I will not be far from you at any time. I have a friend who has done that for me. It makes me want to share it with you. Since you are reading this I assume either you are breathing freely and your sun is shining brightly or you are hidden in fear and darkness trembling at what may be next. Both are why I left this last word for you. Continue reading
The Day After
It is the day after. While we lived in the days of then, the days of the times before, we saw everything in the light of what we knew then. It is difficult to imagine that we thought we could see then. Being blind is not so hard when you can’t see what you are missing. Your focus is on the limited worldview you know of. All the amazing sights and colors and motions which are not a part of your experience are still there, happening around you. Their rich rewards are still available, if you could only see them. That was what was then. Having now is so much more complete. Continue reading
The “Q” Things of God
Questioning Sin Whether it’s your own or that of a brother or sister in Christ, we must return to calling sin, sin. Even unbelievers are able to distinguish between that which a Christian aught to do and what they should not. It is a great evil, that would hide its head in the sand and ignore the wickedness among us. If it is questionable, it aught not to be.
Proverbs 28:13 He that covers his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesses and forsakes them shall have mercy.
Isaiah 5:20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Acts 5:3 But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
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His Difficulty
The words of one of the most revered men in the New Testament are often difficult to understand. The Apostle Paul wrote many words which to some are mysteries. Peter wrote in 2 Peter 3:16 “in which are some things hard to be understood, “. Yet, God never intended for true believers to have a controversy with His word. While it is true that God gives mysteries for His chosen people to search out and discover (Deuteronomy 29:29), He also declared when He spent time with the first century disciples on earth, that they should have these mysteries made known unto them (Matthew 13:11). Continue reading