Verse of the Day

For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
Philippians 2:13

Character Comes Through

Character Comes Through
Love, or any other Godly trait, doesn’t come from you. It comes through you. Love originates with God. We are the channel, the conduit. God is the inexhaustible source of all spiritual virtue. Our task is not to produce love but to pass it along. Not to generate it, but to stay connected to the Source and to be a channel for the love and other spiritual resources that you’ve received from God. By being the conduit connecting God’s love and strength and power to others, God’s love is made complete. What a privilege! Character happens as we stay connected to the Source and let His love flow through us to others.

Taken from Leadership Spring 2007 p. 5 by Marshall Shelley

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Verse of the Day

But He knoweth the way that I take: when He hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Job 23:10

Rejoice In The Lord

REJOICE IN THE LORD

God never moves without purpose or plan
When trying His servant and molding a man.
Give thanks to the LORD, though your testing seems long...
In darkness, He giveth a song.

I could not see through the shadows ahead,
So I looked at the cross of my Saviour instead.
I bowed to the will of the Master that day,
Then peace came, and tears fled away!

Now I can see testing comes from above,
God strengthens His children, and purges in love.
My Father knows best, and I trust in His care;
Through purging, more fruit I will bear.

*Chorus*
O REJOICE IN THE LORD! He makes no mistake.
He knoweth the end of each path that I take!
For when I am tried and purified,
I shall come forth as gold.

by Ron Hamilton, child of God, cancer survivor
(based on Job 23:10)

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Verse of the Day

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
1 Corinthians 15:58

When Character Was King

A Quote from the book, When Character Was King: A Story of Ronald Reagan

The characteristic of heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common heroic. Yet we have the weakness to except the sympathy of people in those actions whose excellence is that they outrun sympathy and appeal to a tardy justice. If you would serve your brother because it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent people do not commend you.
by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Verse of the Day

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus
Philippians 2:5