A beautiful statue once stood in the market place of an Italian city. It was the statue of a Greek slave girl. It represented the slave as tidy and well dressed. A ragged uncombed little street girl, coming across the statue in her play one day, stopped and gazed at it in admiration. She was [...]
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II Cor 3:18: But we with open face beholding as in a glass the lory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord Leave a comment
Rom 8:18: I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed to us-ward Leave a comment
The Bible never speaks despondingly about the future. Apostles and prophets alike, quickened by the inspiration of the spirit, look across the ages to the last result, and never hesitate to declare that that result will compensate for all the toil and suffering. If glory cannot come without the pain, it is not unloving to [...]
Is 43:7: everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.” Leave a comment
In context with the other verses, it can be said that man “glorifies” God because through man, God’s glory can be seen in things such as love, music, heroism and so forth—things belonging to God that we are carrying “in jars of clay” (2 Corinthians 4:7). We are the vessels which “contain” His glory. All [...]
Rom 6:4: Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. Leave a comment
The day after Easter, the newspaper headline read: “Entire World Celebrates the Risen Christ.” On the same page under smaller headings ran stories about war and death, racial clashes, and an ultimatum issued to the United States by a hostile nation. How contradictory. The headline declares that the entire world celebrates the risen Christ, but [...]
Rom 3:23-24: “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:” Leave a comment
Sinner is a perfectly good word because it speaks to the truth of our fallen states before God. We are not simply wayward, mixed up, hankering for the good life but missing it. We are born in a desperate condition of being sinful with a bent toward the same. There is no one who has [...]
