Will You Also Go Away

“From that time many of His disciples went back and walked no more with Him.  Then said Jesus unto the twelve, ‘Will you also go away’?” John 6:66-67      If He’s not your Treasure (II Cor. 4:7), you’ll always be tempted to doubt and desert.      It’s easy to be brave...

If You Would Follow Him

“And He said to them all, ‘If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow Me’.” Luke 9:23      You can’t follow Him and stay where you are.      The terms seem so difficult, so austere:  “If you would come after Me, deny...

If the Lord Wills

“For that you ought to say, ‘If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that’.” James 4:15      Clay’s responsibility is to lie quietly and pliable on the potter’s wheel; it’s the potter’s responsibility to decide what to do with it (Jer. 18:1-6).     ...

For What Is Your Life?

“. . .For what is your life?  It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.” James 4:14b      It’s the soul-searching Question of the ages.      “For what is your life?”      Spiritual introspection.  An honest assessment of who we are,...

On Delight and Desires

“Delight yourself also in the Lord—and He will give you the desires of your heart.” Psalm 37:4      When this is our “Magnificent Obsession,” we’ll know what Jesus meant when He said “If you shall ask anything in My Name, I will do it” (Jn. 14:14) because we’re...

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