Point to Ponder – 12/16/08
Our everyday choices require careful thought. What filter can we use to help us make our choices?
Our everyday choices require careful thought. What filter can we use to help us make our choices?
Are you willing to be counted a fool for Jesus?
“True spiritual growth can only come by feeding on the Word. You need to have a good diet to grow, and the Word of God is the diet that promotes spiritual growth in the believer. Get into the Word, and get the Word in you.”
-Chuck Smith, Wisdom for Today
“Put off the works of darkness and put on the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord’s return is close. At the end of each day, we can truthfully say we are one day closer to the return of Jesus Christ than we were yesterday. Our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. Oh, the blessed hope that Jesus Christ is coming soon to deliver us from this present evil world!”
-Chuck Smith, Wisdom for Today
“And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.” -Romans 13:11
“Recognizing the weakness of our flesh, God provided the answer for us – for you. You can’t obey in your own strength. But you can do all things through Jesus Christ, and through the power of the Holy Spirit. With their help, you can be the person God wants you to be.”
-Chuck Smith, Wisdom for Today
“For the good that I will do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice. O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?”
-Romans 7:19, 24
“We sometimes wrongly think that because we serve the Lord, we should enjoy smooth sailing all the way. Surely the Lord will calm the seas for us, and send a soft wind to fill our sails. Not so! Jesus does not promise to spare you from the storms, but He promised to be with you in the storms.”
-Chuck Smith, Wisdom For Today
“But not long after, a temptestuous head wind arose, called Euroclydon.” – Acts 27:14
“We can get so involved in just getting ourselves through day-to-day living that we don’t take eternity into consideration. But you have only one life and it will soon be past; and only what you do for Christ is going to last.”
-Chuck Smith, Wisdom For Today
“Then he said, ‘The God of our fathers has chosen you that you should know His will…’”
-Acts 22:14
“God leads us step by step, one move of obedience and trust upon another. We don’t have to have the whole picture at once. We just have to take the steps He asks us to take.”
“Now an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, ‘Arise and go toward the south along the road which goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.’ This is desert.” -Acts 8:26 (KJV)
-Chuck Smith, Wisdom For Today
“Sanctify them by Your truth. Your Word is truth.” -John 17:17
“Because we love God, we should want to fulfill Hi desires. If He desires that we be kept from the world, set apart, then we should want that too. We should be diligent to make our stand against evil. And if Gos says that the Word is what cleanses us, then we should go to the Word daily.”
-Chuck Smith, Wisdom for Today
“Follow Jesus’ example. Pray first. Prayer changes things. Sometimes, the thing that needs changing the most is our attitude. Prayer also gives us the strength to endure a trial and the capacity to accept it.”
(Read John 12:27-28)
-Chuck Smith, Wisdom for Today
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