Category: Quote of the Day

After Napoleon Bonaparte had been banished to Elba, the statesmen of shattered Europe were trying to put the pieces back together when someone walked in with a brief message: “He’s back.” Napoleon had returned from exile to resume his warfare until he was finally overcome at Waterloo. I know a better story than that. The rulers of earth today vainly gather to assemble the jigsaw puzzle of this divided world. One of these days there will ring out from heaven the glorious news that our Lord has returned! Then and only then will there be peace on this disordered globe when He shall come to reign whose right it is.

In our craze for bigness and our obsession for statistics, we have gathered a motley and unwieldy multitude. We have called it mobilization but it has really been mob-ilization. Our Lord was never impressed with the enthusiasm of a crowd. Many believed on His name but He did not trust them ( John 2:23-25). He sobered another throng with three “cannots” (Luke 14:25-33). He preached away another host who wanted to make Him king (john 6). He knew that one day a multitude would greet Him with hosannas and a few days later shout, “Crucify Him!”