There are two ways
to live your Life…
One is as though
nothing is a miracle,
The other is as though
everything is a miracle.
– Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955)
Stand & Wait
Must life be considered a failure
to someone compelled to stand still,
forced into inaction and required to watch
the great roaring tides of life from shore? 
No – victory is then to be won by standing still and quietly waiting.
Yet this is a thousand times harder to do than in the past, when you rushed headlong into the busyness of life. It requires much more courage to stand and wait and still not lose heart or lose hope,
to submit to the will of God, to give opportunities for work and leave honors to others, and to be quiet, confident, and rejoicing while the busy multitude goes happily along their way. The greatest life is, “after you have done everything, to stand.”
J.R.Miller (1840-1912)
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Man’s Great End
Lord of All Being,
There is one thing that deserves my greatest care,
that calls forth my ardent desires,
That is, that I may answer the great end for which
I am made –
to glorify thee who hast given me being,
and to do all the good I can for my fellow men;
Verily, life is not worth having
if it be not improved for this noble purpose.
Yet, Lord, how little is this the thought of mankind!
Most men seem to live for themselves,
without much or any regard for thy glory,
or for the good of others;
They earnestly desire and eagerly pursue
the riches, honours, pleasures of this life,
as if they supposed that wealth, greatness,
merriment,
could make their immortal souls happy;
But, alas, what false delusive dreams are these!
And how miserable ere long will those be that
sleep in them,
for all our happiness consists in loving thee,
and being holy as thou art holy.
O may I never fall into the tempers and vanities,
the sensuality and folly of the present world!
It is a place of inexpressible sorrow, a vast empty
nothingness;
Time is a moment, a vapour,
and all its enjoyments are empty bubbles,
fleeting blasts of wind,
from which nothing satisfactory can be derived;
Give me grace always to keep in covenant with thee,
and to reject as delusion a great name here
or hereafter,
together with all sinful pleasures or profits.
Help me to know continually
that there can be no true happiness,
no fulfilling of thy purpose for me,
apart from a life lived in and for
the Son of thy love.
Excerpt from The Valley of Vision
Depth
When a Roman soldier was told by his guide
that if he insisted on taking a certain journey
it would probably be fatal, he answered,
” It is necessary for me to go; it is not
necessary for me to live.”
This was depth. When we are convicted something
like that we shall come to something. The shallow
nature lives in its impulses, its impressions, its
intuitions, its instincts, and very largely its
surroundings. The profound character looks beyond
all these, and moves steadily on, sailing past all
storms and clouds into the clear sunshine which is
always on the other side, and waiting for the
afterwards which always brings the reversion of
sorrow, seeming defeat and failure. When God has
deepened us, then He can give us His deeper truths.
His profoundest secrets, and His mightier trusts.
Lord, lead me into the depths of Thy life and save
me from a shallow experience.
unknown
the hidden life
“…the hidden life
whose days are spent
in communion with God
in trying to reach
the source of power
is the life that moves
the world.
when we depend upon organizations,
we get what organizations can do,
when we depend upon education,
we get what education can do;
when we depend upon man,
we get what man can do;
but when we depend upon prayer,
we get what God can do…!”
A.C. Dixon (1854-1925)
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