Barnes and Noble offer a huge selection of books telling us how to live, but the Holy Bibly tells us how to live godly in an ungodly world.
Titus 2:12 Teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously and godly in this present world;
Godly living is forsaking whatever is unlike God and living soberly with self-control, prudence and restraint.
The same grace that redeemed us from sin also reforms our lives and trains us to be the kind of people who glorify Christ. We become His own special possession.
Titus 2:14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
A few years ago I left a CD with my friend, the mortician. "I realize six songs may be too many for a funeral, but these are my testimony." Knowing how much music means to me, Jerry assured me that they would play them.
I Have Never Walked Alone (sung by Jake Hess) is one selection that reminds me how God has always been with me over the years.
Jesus walked me through cancer. He protected me and the kids the year Gale went overseas with the Air Force.
Through it all -- the good and the bad, the hard and the easy -- He was there, holding me up when I couldn't walk alone and even when I thought I could.
Isaiah 43:2 When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee; when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.
There is a secret many people never learn. Before you can be in the right place with God, you need to humble yourself in His presence -- get small before Him. You need to come to the place where He is everything and you are nothing.
One of the greatest truths in the Bible is this: The way up is down.
James 4:6,10 . . . God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble. Humble yourselves in the sight of The Lord, and he shall lift you up.
When we come to the place where we see our own inability and His ability, then we are in a position to be used of Him, to receive what we need from Him.
The place of absolute surrender to God is where we quit fighting our battles and turn them over to Him. This is where we leave all we are and all we have at the feet of Jesus.
There are no first-class or second-class Christians in the family of God.
Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female; for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Some people are smarter, have more money, greater gifts, abilities and opportunities, but that won't buy them salvation. Salvation is a gift of God (Ephesians 2:8,9; Titus 3:5), and we are all of equal standing before Him.
Every believer is a sinner saved by grace through faith in The Lord Jesus Christ.
If you could take the best out of every man that has ever lived since Adam and put it into one man, that man would still need to be saved.
