Pilgrim’s Progress: The Lions (3:9)
The lions were powerless to touch him because one greater had beckoned him forward.
The lions were powerless to touch him because one greater had beckoned him forward.
When the Bible says “do not be afraid”, it is a warning against allowing our fear to rule us, not having a healthy natural reaction to our circumstances.
The life Worldly Wiseman describes, orderly, respectable, burden-free through the careful cultivation of moral living, sounds genuinely appealing.
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.
I know that His grace is far more than sufficient for all of my failures. But sometimes in the moment, I don’t know know it. Do you know what I mean? Am I the only one?
The end of the story has already been written. It is now only a matter of how we will get from here to there.
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?
If you were granted one wish, what would you choose to ask for?
How do you hit a fastball going more than ninety miles per hour? You don’t. You can’t. It is impossible. At least, that’s what the scientists say…