The River

The River

Oswald Chambers

“A river reaches places which its source never knows. And Jesus said that, if we have received His fullness, “rivers of living water” will flow out of us, reaching in blessing even “to the end of the earth” (Acts 1:8) regardless of how small the visible effects of our lives may appear to be. We have nothing to do with the outflow— “This is the work of God, that you believe…” (John 6:29). God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others.”
– Oswald Chambers

The dandelion sends forth its seeds profusely, freely committing them to the ways of the wind. So also those who sow in tears, sowing often in thankless conditions yet God’s Word declares they… “shall doubtless come” loaded with the harvest of their sowing.

“He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.”
Psalm 126:6

Brian Troxel

Adversity and Faith

Charles Spurgeon

“No stars gleam as brightly as those which glisten in the polar sky. No water tastes so sweet as that which springs amid the desert sand. And no faith is so precious as that which lives and triumphs through adversity. Tested faith brings experience. You would never have believed your own weakness had you not needed to pass through trials. And you would never have known God’s strength had His strength not been needed to carry you through.
– Charles Spurgeon

Sir Owen Seaman

I saw the Morning Break

“Ye that have faith to look with tearless eyes
Beyond the tragedy of a world at strife,
and know that out of death and night shall rise
The dawn of ampler life;
Rejoice, whatever anguish rend the heart,
That God has given you a priceless dower
To live in these great times and have your part
In freedom’s crowning hour,
That ye may tell your sons who see the Light
High in the heavens — their heritage to take —
“I saw the powers of darkness put to flight ..
I saw the morning break.”
– Sir Owen Seaman (Published before 1914)

John W. Ritenbaugh

Pride

“One of pride’s most destructive fruits is self-deception, blindness to one’s own spiritual condition. It strongly tends to produce a sense of infallibility.”

– John W. Ritenbaugh

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Christ is the mediator, not only between God and man, but between man and man, between man and reality”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer