| The weakness of so many modern Christians is | | | | John Wesley one day walked to his mother and |
| that they feel too much at home in the world. In | | | | asked: "Mum, define sin for me". Her answer was |
| their effort to achieve restful adjustment to | | | | this: "Whatever weakens your reasoning, impairs |
| unregenerate society they have lost their pilgrim | | | | the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your |
| character and become an essential part of the | | | | sense of God, or takes away your relish for |
| very moral order against which they are sent to | | | | spiritual things; in short, if anything increases the |
| protest. The world recognizes them and accepts | | | | authority of the flesh over the spirit, that to you |
| them for what they are. And this is the saddest | | | | becomes sin, however good it is in itself." |
| thing that can be said about them. They are not | | | | It is not difficult to say what it is that hardens the |
| lonely, but neither are they saints." | | | | hearts. The seed sown by the wayside could not |
| It is more important that God be glorified than | | | | enter the soil because it had been trodden down |
| that I be saved! | | | | by the passersby. When the world, with its |
| A foolish physician he is, and a most unfaithful | | | | business and its interests, has at all times a free |
| friend, that will let a sick man die for fear of | | | | passage, the heart loses its tenderness. |
| troubling him; and cruel wretches are we to our | | | | Nothing so effectually hinders hearing God's voice |
| friends, that will rather suffer them to go quietly | | | | as opening the heart too much to other voices. A |
| to hell, than we will anger them, or hazard our | | | | heart too deeply interested in the news, the |
| reputation with them. | | | | literature, and the society of this world, cannot |
| We need more speaking to God about men, than | | | | hear the Divine voice. It needs stillness, |
| speaking to men about God. This word spoke | | | | retirement, and concentration to give God the |
| very clearly to me - perhaps more speaking to | | | | heed He claims. Another word which spoke to my |
| God than submitting articles! | | | | own heart - too much television - too long reading |
| Consider this, Christian: that all your trials and | | | | the newspaper. I recall hearing dear Derek Prince |
| troubles, calamities and miseries, crosses and | | | | say, "If you wish to grow and mature - the time |
| losses which you meet in this world are all the hell | | | | you spend watching television and the time you |
| you shall ever have! | | | | spend reading your Bible - just exchange these |
| Only when we are captured by an overwhelming | | | | two items!" |
| sense of awe and reverence in the presence of | | | | When alone with God, be alone with Him. |
| God, will we begin to worship God in spirit and in | | | | These sentences and thoughts are so very |
| truth. | | | | challenging. May they inspire and motivate many. |