Kimmy's Ponderings

“The whole history of the Church is one long story of this tendency to settle down on this earth and to become conformed to this world, to find acceptance and popularity here and to eliminate the element of conflict and of pilgrimage. That is the trend and the tendency of everything. Therefore outwardly, as well as inwardly, pioneering is a costly thing.” “It is a costly and a suffering thing to come up against the religious system that has’settled down ‘ here. It is far more costly than coming up against the naked world itself. The religious system can be more ruthless and cruel and bitter; it can be actuated by all those mean things, contemptible things, prejudices and suspicions things that you will not even find in decent people in the world. It is costly to go on to the heavenlies, it is painful; but it is the way of the pioneer, and it has to be settled that that is how it is.” T. Austin Sparks (I finshed another little T. Austin Sparks Book yesterday...many happy tears, ponderin...

16Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name. 17And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. * peculiar treasure

“It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.” We will become what we are beholding.

"It is reported that you intended in the rebuilding of the wall to make yourself King. and to have it proclaimed that there is a king in Jerusalem, and you are appointing prophets to preach of you." Nehemiah 6:6-7 When the enemy tries that line it is something very disconcerting. It is a horrible suggestion. 'You are trying to make a name for yourself, to get a position for yourself; all this afterall is only a secret motive of yours to get notoriety, to be something and to do something that will make the world take note of you.' If you have any meekness at all that shaft is a very dangerous, cruel one-God only knows what it costs. The enemy tries to impute a false motive to all your labours. 'After all, you only have your own ends in view, trying to do something, to make a name.' Yes, the enemy will stop at nothing-lies or slander. The answer is, 'What is the truth about this? is it true?' After all let us stand back from these lies of the enemy a...

"Dark is life's way, for the night is not yet o'er; the longed-for glimpse I may not meanwhile borrow; But, this I know, He goeth on before." All our supply is to come from the Lord. Here are springs that shall never dry; here are fountains and streams that shall never be cut off. Here, anxious one, is the gracious pledge of the heavenly Father. If He be the source of our mercies they can never fail us. No heat, no drought can parch that river, “the streams whereof make glad the city of God.