God’s Plan For Man’s Happiness

“T’is ill-proportioned theology that teaches the doctrine, that the only motive in redemption was a regard to God’s glory.

It receives no countenance from the Bible. Does not God “pity us, as a father pitieth his children?”. Taught to address him by the endearing appellation of Father, oh, what affection, love, and loving-kindness are expressed in that tender term!

And if, on seeing some earthly father, whom a child’s scream has reached and roused, rush up the blazing stairs, or leap into the boiling flood, it were wrong, it were cruel, it were a shame, to suspect him of being destitute of affection—of being moved to this noble act by no other motive than a regard to his own honor, and by no other voice than the calm command of duty—how much more wrong were it to harbor such suspicions of “our Father who is in heaven.”—GUTHRIE.

DAILY DEVOTIONAL

The Blessing Of Giving

John Eckhardt

If you want to receive the blessing of God, you have to be ready to give. You cannot expect to live a blessed life if all you do is receive, receive, receive. You will end up like the Dead Sea—becoming too salty and too toxic to support any kind of life.

DAILY DEVOTIONAL

Clouds And Darkness

Oswald Chambers

If we have never had the experience of taking our commonplace religious shoes off our commonplace religious feet, and getting rid of al the undue familiarity with which we approach God, it is questionable whether we have ever stood in His presence.

DAILY DEVOTIONAL

Will You Go Out Without Knowing?

Oswald Chambers

One of the difficulties in Christian work is this question - "What do you expect to do?" You do not know what you are going to do; the only thing you know is that God knows what He is doing.

DAILY DEVOTIONAL

Let Us Keep To The Point

Oswald Chambers

Shut out every other consideration and keep yourself before God for this one thing only - My Utmost for His Highest. I am determined to be absolutely and entirely for Him and for Him alone.