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Are You Climbing a Tough
Mountain Today? Listen to these:
No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow.
Most of the Psalms were born in a wilderness. Most of the
Epistles were written in a prison. The greatest thoughts of
the greatest thinkers have all passed through fire. The
greatest poets have "learned in suffering what they taught
in song." In bonds Bunyan lived the allegory that he
afterwards wrote, and we may thank Bedford Jail for the
Pilgrim's Progress. Take comfort, afflicted
Christian! When God is about to
make pre-eminent use of a person, He puts them in
the fire." (George MacDonald)
I compare the adversities that we have to undergo in the
course of the year to a great bundle of sticks, far too
large for us to lift. But God does
not require us to carry the whole at once. He
mercifully unties the bundle, and gives us first one stick,
which we are to carry today, and then another, which we are
to carry tomorrow, and so on.
This we might easily manage, if we would
only take the burden appointed for
us each day. But we choose to increase our
troubles by carrying yesterday's stick over again today, and
adding tomorrow's burden to our load, before we are required
to bear it." (John Newton, author of Amazing Grace)
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time
are not worthy to be compared with
the glory which shall be revealed in us. (Paul,
Romans 8:18) |
Christian Character
How grand it would be if we each had a
character like that of Deacon Phillips Brooks, author of
In the Service of the King, and overseer and preacher at
Harvard University. Of him, a Boston daily newspaper once
wrote, "The day opened cloudy and cheerless, but about noon
Phillips Brooks came downtown and then everything brightened
up." When he died in 1893, one observer reported:
"They buried him like a king. Harvard students carried his
body on their shoulders. All barriers of denomination were
down. Though he was an Episcopalian, Roman Catholics and
Unitarians alike felt that a great man had fallen in
Israel."
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It's not the critic who counts; not the one who
points out how the strong person stumbled, or where the doer
of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the
men and women who are actually in the arena; whose faces are
marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strive valiantly;
who err and come short again and again; who know the great
enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spend themselves in
worthy causes; who at the best know in the end the triumph
of high achievement; and who at worst, if they fail, at
least fail while daring greatly; so that their place shall
never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither
victory nor defeat. (Theodore Roosevelt—revised) |
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I just finished a Study Guide for the 30 chapters
in
With Christ in the School of Prayers, which is
Bridge-Logos's best selling book on prayer. It's currently
out of print while it's being reformatted with the Study
Guide and a new biography of Andrew Murray and other
stuff—it's also getting an audio CD excerpt of the text
added. We have a number of folks who buy multiple copies of
this book for group prayer studies. This week I'll be
doing
a Study Guide for
Tozer: Mystery of the Holy Spirit—this already has
an audio CD with it.
Looks like Beverlee and I will meet the publisher's
schedule for the two books we're currently working on:
The
Interior Castle by Teresa of Avila, and A Serious
Call for a Devout and Holy Life by William Law. This
past week we've been going back over our revised copy to make sure
it's clear and clean, and doing the Biography, Study Guide,
Glossary, Scripture Index, and Topical Index. She's a
bit ahead of me, but I should be okay.
Thanks for your prayers.
Harold J. Chadwick |
