Vintage Wisdom...
Let the Dead Bury the Dead
"Death and life are in the power of the tongue" (Proverbs 18:21). Be careful to close out the noise of death. Your struggle may be lasting, but it is not everlasting. Spend less time worrying about who's right and take charge over deciding what's right in your own life. How many successful complainers do you know? When God gets ready to bless you. He doesn't send complainers into your life. He sends those full of faith, power and love.
"Today I invoke heaven and earth as a witness against you that I have set life and death, blessing and curse, before you. Therefore choose life so that you and your descendants may live!" (Deuteronomy 30:19)
The Battle Over Our Faith
The Apostle Paul uses an insightful expression more than once in his letters to Timothy - "the fight of faith". Faith is a costly spiritual commodity that comes in a variety of degrees, from "no faith" to "great faith". There is a constant battle over the faith of a believer. One must discipline their spiritual man to continually make deposits of faith into their own lives. This responsibility is one that is active and not passive. The mature believer moves through their day addressing issues and giving them names, either these issues fit inside the scope of their destiny or they don't. Saying nothing often times seals your agreement with life's circumstances or the negative words of someone else. The scripture says that "Faith comes by hearing ..." (Romans 10:17). We can hear faith coming through reading the Bible. We can hear faith coming by meditating or speaking God's Word. We can hear faith coming through the teaching and preaching of the scriptures. And finally when we practice the three previous methods, we can hear faith coming through the spoken Word of God.
Don't become an indifferent spiritual person, when life travels at you at unexpected speeds, learn the discipline of forcing faith to come!
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds ~ Sir Francis Bacon
A wise man knows many things, a shrewd man knows many people ~ Ron Marinari
A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can ~ Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come ~ Victor Hugo
A true friend is one who like you despite your achevements ~ Arnold Bennett
A ship in a harbor is safe - but that is not what ships are for ~ John Shedd
The best-educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed ~ Helen Keller
Most people have to talk so they won't hear ~ Mary Sarton
The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery ~ Ralph Hodgson
In a still sea every man is a captain ~ Ron Marinari
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent ~ Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
When a proud man hears another praised, he feels himself injured ~ English Proverb
Beware of the fury of a patient man ~ John Dryden