I have a notebook that I keep on my desk in which I write just about everything in. But if you look through my book, you will find most of the pages filled with what I call doodling (which means to scribble absentmindedly). But not every page is that way. Sometimes, when I think and consider the ones in my life that I so dearly love, I write down their name. Recently my grandson was looking in my book and he saw his name, and he excitedly said, “That’s my name, Papaw.” “Why did you write down my name?” I told him that I wrote his name in my book because I loved him, and always thought of him, and that I always had his best interest at heart. Now, every time he comes to our house, and into my study, he wants to see his name written in my book. He likes it when he sees his two sisters’ names. He likes it when he sees his mother’s name. He even likes it when he sees my name. But the name he loves to see and wants to see the most is his name.
I love to think about my name being written in heaven, in God’s eternal Book, that Book of Life of the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world. (Revelation 13:8) What great joy it would bring me to see the names of all whom I love written in God’s Book. Lost sinner, I would love to see your name written there. But like my grandson, there is one name that I desire to see above all the others, and that is mine! The thought of my name being written there makes me feel and act like I am five years old again. For like my grandson, I know that God loves me. I know that Christ died for me, and I know that I am constantly and forever on His mind. God, my Father, has my eternal interest and welfare at heart. Is your name written there? May God be pleased to make it so!
One cannot truly believe in a sovereign God and at the same time believe in luck. The Bible is clear that God works all things after the counsel of His own will and for the good of His elect people. (Eph. 1:11; Rom. 8:28; Dan. 4:35) Recently a...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
I once knew a young man that graduated from a Lutheran seminary. He told a group of men at a breakfast one morning that the “motto,” of his alma mater during his last year of attendance was, “Back to Luther, back to...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Moses defined “Total Depravity” long before John Calvin ever did. He wrote, “And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Jonah said, “Salvation is of the Lord.” (Jonah 2:9) If that statement is true, and it is, then you did not make a decision to follow Jesus. You did not give your heart to Him, nor did you make Him Lord of your life. The simple truth...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
James 2:10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. One point doesn’t seem like much, but when it has to do with offending God’s law, it might as well be a million, for to offend the law...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Several years ago I picked up a modern-day, newly published hymn book and found John Newton’s great old hymn, “Amazing Grace” in it. Immediately, I noticed that the phrase, “God saved a wretch like me,” had been...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Jonah said, “Salvation is of the Lord.” (Jonah 2:9) What does that mean? It means exactly what it says. The Lord Jesus said, “You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you.” (John 15:16) How do you interpret that? It means...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
In Luke chapter 15, the prodigal son, having wasted his substance on riotous living, found himself in a pigpen, eating pig-food. What was it that caused him to come to his senses, return home, and repent of his ways? Was it the sorrow that...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
“Rise up and walk,” to those who are paralyzed and lame. “Go and wash thyself,” to those who cannot cleanse themselves. “Believe,” to those who cannot and will not believe. “Trust,”to those who have...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
