Category: Quote of the Day

Never have we been so beset with inflammation of the mind. Never have so many been afire with passion, hatred, perversion. It fills mental institutions, hospitals, jails, graves, at a rate unknown in the past. And no wonder – considering the books people read, the magazines they pore over, the television programs they watch, the movies they see, the things they think about. “…as he [a man] thinketh in his heart, so is he” (Proverbs 23:7). One cannot help the evil thoughts that come, but it is the thoughts we cultivate that make the difference between good or evil. We don’t have to open the door to the devil and say, “Make yourself at home.”

The Christian message is Christ come, Christ coming, Christ contemporary. He has come in grace, He is coming in glory, He is with us now. George Muller had on his desk a motto of two words, AND TODAY, from that great verse, “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and for ever” (Hebrews 13:8). Most of us believe in Christ come and in Christ coming, but we are weak on the middle span of that all-encompassing verse, Christ contemporary. “…lo, I am with you always,” is not a promise, it is a fact – not “I will be with you” but “I am with you all the days, including today.”