Sunday, May 24, 2015
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Happily Incompatible!
I would like to share with you a tiny flyer from BGEA (Billy Graham Evangelistic Association) that was mailed to me this February 2015. It has a title: TRUE LOVE.
Even though Billy Graham's wife, Ruth Bell Graham, has been dead for years (she died in June 2007), humble Billy never ceases to share the beautiful marriage he had with his wife, (thus, this sharing: I can't help but share it with you, too.)
"Happily Incompatible!
Ruth and I didn't have a perfect marriage, but we had a great one. In a perfect marriage, everything is always the finest and best imaginable; like a Greek statue, the proportions are exact and the finish is unblemished. Who knows any human beings like that? The unblemished ideal exists only in "happily ever after" fairy tales. I think that there is some merit to a description I once read of a married couple as "happily incompatible." Ruth liked to say, "If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary."
The most important truth we need to know about marriage is that God gave it to us. True love is an act of the will---a conscious decision to do what is best for the other person instead of ourselves. That is why marriage involves commitment, the commitment of a man and a woman to each other for as long as they both shall live. Do you want to know what love is? Look at Jesus Christ. He puts us first instead of Himself---and that's what true love does.
Marriage is God's invention, not ours! Society didn't establish it; God did.
Billy Graham"
Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. Philippians 2:3, NKJV
Thursday, December 18, 2014
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
KEPT BY THE SPIRIT
We know that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us. 1 John 3:24
A boat doesn't sink because it is in the water;
it sinks because the water gets into it.
In the same way, Christians don't fail to live as they should because they are in the world;
they fail because the world has gotten into them.
We don't fail to produce the fruit of the Holy Spirit because we live in a sea of corruption;
we fail because the sea of corruption has gotten into us.
It can happen almost without our realizing it.
At one time we were dedicated to Christ, surrendered to the will of God.
At one time we were dedicated to Christ, surrendered to the will of God.
But little by little the chilling waters of the world crept in.
We became preoccupied with the things of this world rather than the things of Christ.
Most ocean-going ships have pumps running constantly, sucking out any water that might have leaked into the hull. Similarly, we need to keep the "pumps" of repentance running. We need to plug the holes with the truth of God's Word.
Don't let the world sink your ship!
Don't let the world sink your ship!
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(Article above quoted from Hope for Each Day Devotional
by Billy Graham, September 16th)
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