Tag: Henry Ward Beecher

Not one grain too much!

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Grace Gems Whiteby Grace Gems

Henry Ward Beecher, 1813-1887

“Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?” Hebrews 12:7

Affliction comes to us all: not to make us sad–but sober; not to make us sorry–but to make us wise; not to impoverish us–but to enrich us!

We are always in the furnace–or on the anvil. By trials, God is shaping us for nobler things. Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things!

No physician ever weighed out medicine to his patients with half so much care and exactness, as God weighs out every trial to His children. Not one grain too much, does He ever permit to be put in the scale!

The troubles and worries of life may be as stumbling blocks in our way–or we may make them stepping-stones to a nobler character and to Heaven.

“Our fathers disciplined us for a little while as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, that we may share in His holiness. No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.” Hebrews 12:10-11

by Grace Gems

Reality Check!

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George Whittenby George Whitten

Philippians 3:13-15 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Therefore let us, as many as are mature, have this mind; and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal even this to you.

New Year’s Eve celebrations have come and gone. Now the reality is settling in — it’s 2017!! Some of us are wondering where in the world the time went… the Lord knows I am.

A famous preacher, Henry Ward Beecher once said: “We have passed through one more year. One more long stage in the journey of life, with its ascents and descents and dust and mud and rocks and thorns and burdens that wear the shoulders, is done. The old year is dead. Roll it away. Let it go. God, in His providence, has brought us out of it. It is gone; . . . its evil is gone; its good remains. The evil has perished, and the good survives.”

I say amen to that — how ’bout you?

Let’s be sure to confess the sins of 2016 today. Roll them away. Let them go. Rest assured in the fact they are forgiven so we can confidently look towards the future. Let’s press forward to do exciting and new things for the Lord — ’cause there’s sooooo much work to be done!!

Your family in the Lord with much agape love

by George Whitten