December 2019 – Fraglen Inkwell Diaries

Good Will

For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders.

And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6

“And when the Lord Jesus has become your peace, remember, there is another thing: good will towards men.

Do not try to keep Christmas without good will towards men.” –

Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892)

I know there is a hope in religion; I know there is faith and I know there is prayer about religion and necessary to it,

but God is most glorified when there is peace on earth and good will towards men. Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)

Apart from God – Orphans

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A little acquaintance with our own hearts will force us to acknowledge that there is no hope within us,

and the briefest glance around should show us that we need expect no help from without.

Nature itself will teach us that (apart from God) we are but orphans of the creation, waifs of the wide spaces, caught helpless amid the whirl of forces too great to comprehend.

Onward through this world roars an immense and sightless power leaving in its wake generations, cities, civilizations.

The earth, our brief home, offers us at last only a grave.

For us there is nothing safe, nothing kind.

In the Lord there is mercy, but in the world there is none,

for nature and life move on as if unaware of good or evil,

of human sorrow

or human pain.

The Divine Conquest p.56

A.W. Tozer (1897-1963)

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him? Psalm 8: 3,4

When the Lord finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the Testimony, the tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.

Exodus 31:18

In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?” They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him. But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. When they kept questioning him, he straightened up and said to them,”If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.” Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.

John 8: 5-8