Pilgrim’s Progress: Flight From Home (1:5)
He is running toward a gate he has never seen, because a man he barely knows pointed toward a light in the far off distance.
He is running toward a gate he has never seen, because a man he barely knows pointed toward a light in the far off distance.
You cannot see it from a distance and demand proof before you take a step. The gate only reveals itself to those already walking.
He simply says, “Go that way. The gate is there. Knock and it will be opened for you.”
Faith, when it’s real, tends to disturb the peace of the people around us before it transforms them.
Most of us spend enormous energy making sure our rags do not show.
The end of the story has already been written. It is now only a matter of how we will get from here to there.
If the devil is the accuser of the brethren, how often are well meaning complainers little more than tools of the devil?
William Carey once said, “Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God.” All too often, we are doing one or the other, but not both simultaneously. Why is this?
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And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all…