Bored — Why?(And what to do about it!)

Boredom afflicts people often.When nothing is happening, at least to the mind and the body's eye, we get nervous, antsy, restless, uptight.Yet God is working, always working:"Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now...

Love Unconquerable that Conquers all Fear

In the past, I used to fear a lot. I would get so worked up, sometimes for no apparent reason.A friend of mine reminded me of an important scripture:"For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind." (2 Timothy...

Reflection on "My Utmost" November 16 Part III

"Oh, I have had a wonderful call from God! It takes Almighty God Incarnate in us to do the meanest duty to the glory of God. It takes God’s Spirit in us to make us so absolutely humanly His that we are utterly unnoticeable. The test of the life of a saint is not...

Reflection on "My Utmost" November 16 Part II

"The tendency is to look for the marvellous in our experience; we mistake the sense of the heroic for being heroes. It is one thing to go through a crisis grandly, but another thing to go through every day glorifying God when there is no witness, no limelight, no...

Reflection on "My Utmost" November 16

"The great marvel of the Incarnation slips into ordinary childhood’s life; the great marvel of the Transfiguration vanishes in the devil-possessed valley; the glory of the Resurrection descends into a breakfast on the sea-shore. This is not an anti-climax, but a...