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Get it right or go forever wrong!

What is your cause in life?

OK, a person can have multiple causes to guide and define his living. Got it.

What is the primary cause in your life?

I’m not asking what it should be. Nor am I asking what you would like for it to be. I’m asking you what it is. No, actually, I’m asking more than that. I’m asking what cause has given direction and purpose and definition to your life for the last six months (at least).

This morning I got to thinking about this because of this fragment in the Scripture reading by one of our congregation’s ministers: “Is there not a cause?” (1 Samuel 17:29).

That’s a question to search my heart, a question by which to evaluate my life! Continue reading →

The burden of the love, the calling, the talent, and the message

God's message: Whom shall I send? (Isaiah 6:8)

Yesterday the morning we listened to Adrian Rogers’ message: How to Put Power in Your Prayer.

In the afternoon we listened to Joe Mast’s message: How the Resurrection Changes Lives.

When I got to my bedtime reading, I was jolted again by how those two messages tied in so well together…then tied in with my reading:

His word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay. -Jeremiah 20:9

Necessity is laid upon me; yea woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel! What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel. -1 Corinthians 9:16,18

They called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus. But Peter and John answered and said unto them,…We cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard -Acts 4:18-20

The love of Christ constraineth us. -2 Corinthians 5:14

I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth…Thou wicked and slothful servant,…thou oughtest…to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury. -Matthew 25:25-27

Go…to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee. -Mark 5:19

Daily Light on the Daily Path | April 19, Evening