A rather tricky mind of mine!!

Take care lest you fall into the error so common among anxious souls of making a savior of the “frames” of your own mind. Your own experience is delightful, but it is a poor substitute for Christ. The most elevated state of mind cannot prove a savior. It is upon Jesus bleeding, dying, atoning for sin, and suffering under the dreadful stroke of the sword of God’s justice, that your eye must be fixed; and if so, you will feel that “peace that passeth all understanding” keeping your heart and mind, and “joy unspeakable and full of glory” will spring up within your soul. [Jonah 2:9, Rom. 5:11, Phili. 4:7, 1 Pet. 1:8]

William Reid

Let us take our lot in life just as it comes, courageously, patiently, and faithfully never wondering at anything that the Master does.

Mrs E. Prentiss

The key of the greater work

 . . I say to you, he who believes in Me, . . . greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father —John 14:12

Prayer does not equip us for greater works— prayer is the greater work. Yet we think of prayer as some commonsense exercise of our higher powers that simply prepares us for God’s work. In the teachings of Jesus Christ, prayer is the working of the miracle of redemption in me, which produces the miracle of redemption in others, through the power of God. The way fruit remains firm is through prayer, but remember that it is prayer based on the agony of Christ in redemption, not on my own agony. We must go to God as His child, because only a child gets his prayers answered; a “wise” man does not (see Matthew 11:25).

Circumstances

" You may be sure of one thing: God Himself has placed you in your present circumstances, and it is He who appoints for you your daily task. Now, is it possible to conceive that a Being of so much wisdom and goodness would place you amid duties whose tendency is to draw you away from, rather than towards Himself? 

excerpt from "The flower of the family", by Mrs. Prentiss

Iran

And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?

 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.( Revelation 6)

Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani's sentence has been upheld. He received a death sentence for apostasy(leaving Islam). He appealed to the supreme court in Iran - and was heard last Sunday 25/09 for 4 days- in which he was asked to recant his faith in the LORD Jesus Christ, but refused to do so. Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.

My own sin

If you do not find out your sin, and bring it to Calvary to get it pardoned and washed away through the blood of Jesus, be sure your sin will find you out, and bring you to the judgment seat, to be condemned by Jesus, and sent away into everlasting punishment.”

William Reid (1914-1986)