Category: Quote of the Day

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.”

Someone has suggested that a good text for an Easter sermon can be found in a phrase out of Acts 12:4: “Intending After Easter…” Everybody goes to church on Easter Sunday but most of them do not intend to keep it up. It is not a religious show on a big day but faithfulness to God every day that counts. Putting in an appearance on a special occasion and then being conspicuous for absence on most occasions is the bane of our church life today. Isaiah thundered against the hollow and meaningless observance of new moons and Sabbaths and ‘the solemn meeting.” Christmas and Easter Christians, the holly-and-lilies crowd, make poor soldiers of the cross and followers of the Lamb. The real test of our piety is what we intend to do “after Easter.”