“‘For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,’ says the Lord. ‘For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts’” (Isaiah 55:8,9). AS WE REACH TOWARD GOD, WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT WE ARE REACHING UPWARD. [...]
“. . . and consider that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation” (2 Peter 3:15). PETER WROTE THAT WE OUGHT TO LOOK FORWARD TO OUR LORD’S RETURN, AND IF HIS RETURN IS DELAYED, LOOK UPON THAT DELAY AS THE VERY THING THAT MAKES OUR SALVATION POSSIBLE. There is no way around the fact that [...]
“Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us” (Hebrews 12:1). BETWEEN NOW AND THE TIME OF OUR DEPARTURE FROM THIS LIFE, THERE [...]
“This is he who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the Angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, the one who received the living oracles to give to us, whom our fathers would not obey, but rejected. And in their hearts they turned back to Egypt . . [...]