Guidance & Wisdom
But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.
But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
We can never be happy, restful, or spiritually healthy till we become holy.
Great principles are always best and freshest when studied from the life, and it so happens that a circumstance in Paul’s life makes it peculiarly easy to act on this rule here.
We must not kick away the ladder by which we have climbed up.
As the branch thirsts for continued sap, so the believer thirsts for more of the Spirit.
The stages by which this transcendent standpoint is to be reached are now plainly before us. They are, the discovery of self and the discovery of Christ.
Covenant blessings are not meant to be looked at only, but to be appropriated.
Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.
Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
In such a case an ordinary course of humiliation will not do the work: whatever it be, it will by this means insinuate itself more or less into all the faculties of the soul, and habituate the affections to its company and society.
The more you have of a rational knowledge of divine things, the more opportunity will there be, when the Spirit shall be breathed into your heart, to see the excellency of these things.
A going Christian is a growing Christian.
But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.
But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
As he grows in grace, he grows in isolation. He feels that God is detaching his life from all around it.
The man who is really concerned to live well must possess himself continually of the thought that he is not to live long.
To grow in grace is opposed to all self-dependence, to all self-effort, to all legality of every kind.
Acts, often repeated, gradually become habits, and habits, long enough continued, settle and harden into character.
By often repeating these acts, they become habitual, and the presence of God is rendered as it were natural to us.
If our religion is really our life, and not merely something extraneous tacked on to our life, it must necessarily go into everything in which we live.
Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it.
Hearing is but as the sowing of the seed; talking is not sufficient to prove that fruit is indeed in the heart.
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