Gems worth reading
January 18
"Their eyes were opened, and they knew Him." (Luke 24:31)
"They said . . . He opened to us the Scriptures." (Luke 24:32)
"Then opened He their understanding." (Luke 24:45)
This lovely chapter begins with an opened sepulcher and ends with an opened heaven. Between these two we have:
- The opened Scriptures,
- An opened home,
- Opened eyes, and,
- Opened understanding.
He who came forth from the opened tomb and ascended into the opened heaven still delights to open the Word to the opened eyes of those who love Him. (Jim Flanigan)
N.J. Hiebert # 3589
January 19
"And He (Jesus) said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.'" (Mark 16:15)
"Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the word. Amen." (Matthew 28:19,20)
The post-office is not a source, it is only a medium. It does not create these potent messages, it only relays them from the Creator to you. You and I are human post-offices. We are daily giving out messages of some sort to the world. They do not come from us, but through us; we do not create, we convey. And they come either from evil or from good.
Men study how to make their lives more interesting. Take a lesson from the post-office. It is interesting, not because of itself, but because of what it passes on to men. . . . What letters go through the window of your life? Letters of truth and hope, to cheer and console? Or do you hand out dirty trash, worthless drivel, selfish commercial circulars, black-edged missives of misery?
Every Christian is a postmaster for God. His duty is to pass out good news from above. If the postmaster kept all the mail and refused to give it out, he would soon be in trouble. No wonder some Christians are so miserable: they keep God's blessing within their own little lives, and soon there is congestion. God does not send us good things from the heavenly headquarters merely for our personal enjoyment. Some of them may be addressed to us, but most of them belong to our fellow-men, and we must pass them on. (Vance Havner)
N.J. Hiebert # 3590
