December 2011
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the value of wisdom
“My son, if you receive my words,
And treasure my commands within you,
So that you incline your ear to wisdom,
And apply your heart to understanding;
Yes, if you cry out for discernment,
And lift up your voice for understanding,
If you seek her as silver,
And search for her as for hidden treasures;
Then you will understand the fear of the Lord,
And find the knowledge of...
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“WHAT God may hereafter require of you, you must not give yourself the least...”
– GEORGE MACDONALD
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“Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and...”
– Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth (via danseurs)
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Serious Play, Careless Work by Elisabeth Elliot
When I was a kid we rushed home every afternoon from school, burst into the house to make sure Mother was there where we wanted her to be (she was), and then collected the kids on the block to play Kick the Can or to build playhouses out of wooden greenhouse boxes. Equipment didn’t cost us a cent. Adults didn’t have to supervise us or drive us anywhere or coach us. We just played. We...
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He Knows Your Needs by Charles Haddon Spurgeon
“Thou, O God, hast prepared of Thy goodness for the poor.”
—Psalm 68:10
All God’s gifts are prepared gifts laid up in store for wants foreseen. He anticipates our needs; and out of the fulness which He has treasured up in Christ Jesus, He provides of His goodness for the poor. You may trust Him for all the necessities that can occur, for He has infallibly foreknown every...
“If Christ has died for me - ungodly as I am, without strength as I am - then I...”
– Spurgeon (via amazedbyhislove)
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In God, Not Out of Trouble by Mrs. Charles E....
“And seekest thou great things for thyself? Seek them not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the Lord: but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest” Jeremiah 45:5.
A promise given for hard places, and a promise of safety and life in the midst of tremendous pressure, a life “for a prey.” It may well adjust itself to our...
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the smallest tasks
Baron Von Hugel said, “The chain of cause and effect which makes up human life, is bisected at every point by a vertical line relating us and all we do to God.”
This is what He has given us to do, this task here on this earth, not the task we aspired to do, but this one.
The absurdities involved cut us down to size. The great discrepancy between what we envisioned and what...
