Archive for February 2009
Choose to Surrender
Surrender is bad. It means you’ve given up. Maybe you just can’t fight any more, or perhaps you could fight, but you don’t want to. It’s just not worth it. About the only time that surrender is applauded is when a military leader does so to save the lives of the remaining troops. Even that…
Read MoreThe Love Chapter
When the calendar reminds us of Valentine’s Day, it makes me wonder how real love can grow instead of fade. In our fickle society, “love” is misused and motives are mixed…as in this love letter lament: “Dearest Jimmy, No words could ever express the great unhappiness I’ve felt since breaking our engagement. Please say you’ll…
Read MoreHow to Discern God’s Guidance (Part 4)
The way in which the Holy Spirit, therefore, usually works in His direct guidance is to impress upon the mind a wish or desire to do or leave undone certain things. The soul when engaged, perhaps, in prayer, feels a sudden suggestion made to its inmost consciousness in reference to a certain point of duty.…
Read MoreHow to Discern God’s Guidance (Part 3)
[Review: 1. Our first test, therefore, of the Divine authority of any voice which may seem to speak to us, must be its harmony in moral character with the mind and will of God, as revealed to us in the Gospel of Christ. 2. The second test, therefore, to which our impressions must be brought,…
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