Sound Words for Pilgrims

"The grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus" 1 Timothy 1:14

Press on ! Nor pause to look behind, For that which thou hast lost to find,

Be it of earth or heaven

Press on ! and count on God for more, For better than thou hadst before,

Bold enter at the open door.

And treble shall be given.

(pp. 149-152 Footprints for Pilgrims)

Where has there ever been found a single blessing save in the hand of Christ ? Could you wish for any save what He gives ?

Oh, do not be satisfied with ordinary Christianity, but be saying, "If nobody else is heavenly minded, why not I ?  If others are not full of the Holy Ghost, why not I ?"

"Having loved His own... He loved them unto the end." ... Oh, how sweet this experience of Christ's love in this cold world ! When the heart is chilled, and yearning for a little warmth, how sweet to turn to the Lord Jesus and feel the warmth of His love ! Ah, looking up to Him, the heart is always warmed.

If you see any beauty in Christ, and say, "I desire to have that," God will work it in you.

Can you spread out no wants before Christ, the Giver, the Healer ? Believers grieve the Spirit by not using Christ, and then God must compel them to do it.

I think if ... could but make up his mind to leave himself as a dead man in the hands of the Lord, and look up more simply and entirely to the Lord in heaven, he would be more steadily in peace and joy, and perhaps his body less in his way.  I know how the doctor thinks bad things about said body, but doctors know very little about how far the Lord may out of weakness make strong, or how He may make His strength perfect in weakness.

To restore from beyond the grave is to Him easy; to turn back the downward course is to Him a pleasure, who is the resurrection and the life.

I find it confessedly difficult to be sure as to His mind about simple medicinal remedies; but I am sure that those who cast all upon the Lord, and never touch any such supposed and real aids are the happiest; their conduct most in the Spirit ... I dread more than I did getting under the power of things down here, in body or in mind.

I fear ... that ... may be working beyond his strength of body ... but that is the right side, perhaps, to err upon in these days of self-preservation and avoidance of trusting in God.

God is able to deliver us, not only from the world and Satan practically, but from our own selves also, otherwise what and where would be His great salvation ?

Satisfied with God, rejoicing in Christ, full of the Holy Ghost, the weakest believer may be well wondered at by men of the earth ... who feel an incessant craving for something they know not what.

True, death came from the entrance of sin, but, if it should overtake me, I shall be borne upon the crest of the wave right into the presence of the Lord, one leap into the bosom of Christ.

I can give no reason why my heart was wrapped around Christ, save that the grace of God drew me to Him, and has kept me these forty years, because He loved me, and will love me unto the end.

--- G.V.W.