He Supplies Our Needs
Do not be anxious about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink, nor about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Matthew 6:25, RSV. He who has given you life knows your need of food to sustain it. He who […]
One Pulse of Life in All Creation
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. Matthew 6:28. The hillsides and the fields were bright with flowers, and, pointing to them in the dewy freshness of the morning, Jesus said, “Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow.” The graceful forms and delicate hues of the plants and flowers may be copied […]
Totally Dependent Upon the Creator
For in him we live, and move, and have our being. Acts 17:28. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” Here the conditions are plainly stated by Jesus Christ, the Sin-bearer. When you deliberately decide to go contrary […]
Growth Comes From God
They shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine. Hosea 14:7. The change of heart by which we become children of God is in the Bible spoken of as birth. Again, it is compared to the germination of the good seed sown by the husbandman. In like manner those who are just converted to […]
The Heavenly Sower
Behold, a sower went forth to sow. Matthew 13:3. In the East the state of affairs was so unsettled, and there was so great danger from violence that the people dwelt chiefly in walled towns, and the husbandmen went forth daily to their labor outside the walls. So Christ, the heavenly Sower, went forth to sow. […]
God’s Power in Nature and Us
For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. Romans 1:20, NIV. In the cultivation of the soil the thoughtful worker will find that treasures little dreamed of are opening up before him. No […]
