What do We Remember?

How we older folk love to be reminiscent. We recall the storms that we have weathered through the mercy of our God. We tell of their severity and of our experience in them. Let us beware, for there is danger in this. What was it that the disciples talked of when the great storm became a great calm? They did not say, what a great storm it was! or, what fears we had, or courage, or what manner of men we were in it; but, "What manner of Man is this!" CHRIST ENGROSSED THEM: WHAT He had done and the way He had done it filled them with wonder. It is well if our reminiscences run on this line, if in looking back we recall His deliverances, His mercy, His power, the way He revealed Himself in the hour of our deep need, then do we glorify Him and show that the trial of our faith has yielded true gold for His treasury and ours. Yes, if the trials have made us think more of Him and talk of all His wondrous works, it is well.

—Selected

The Most Wonderful Book

The Bible is the most wonderful book in the world. It has changed the stream of history, and the gates of eternity swing upon the hinges of acceptance or rejection of its message. Like the crushing blows of a hammer, to which Jeremiah compares it (Jer. 23:29), it breaks the flinty hearts of rebellious sinners. Its fires melt the hardest, its waters cleanse the foulest soul, its light can penetrate the deepest darkness.

The Gospel in a Nutshell

"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved" (John 3:16,17).