10/23/2000
The plans of the diligent lead surely to advantage, but everyone who is hasty comes surely to poverty (Prov. 21:5). What is the point of diligence? Why keep persevering in a task?
A person who finds it difficult to trust on a human level often finds it difficult to trust on a spiritual level.
Several Christians tell me that one of the biggest lessons they have learned is that of discerning God's guidance through His giving or withholding of money.
And from his fullness have we all received, grace upon grace (John 1:16). What purpose does God have in leading us into situations which are uncertain and ambiguous?
Once we have been given a vision of what God wants us to do for Him, the next thing that happens is that the vision dies. But there is a reason for this.
Much of the inner turmoil we go through in life comes about because we do not see life as a whole.
Several of the world's religions, when faced with the perplexing issue of Christ's return from the dead, explain it in terms of reincarnation.