When We No Longer Seek

The Bible Talks Plentifully About Joy, But It Nowhere Talks About A 'happy Christian.' Happiness Depends On What Happens; Joy Does Not. Remember, Jesus Christ Had Joy, And He Prayed 'that They Might Have My Joy Fulfilled In Themselves.'

We Are Apt To Think That Everything That Happens To Us Is To Be Turned Into Useful Teaching; It Is To Be Turned Into Something Better Than Teaching, Into Character. We Shall Find That The Spheres God Brings Us Into Are Not Meant To Teach Us Something But To Make Us Something.

We Have To Keep Letting Go, And Slowly And Surely The Great Full Life Of God Will Invade Us In Every Part, And Men Will Take Knowledge Of Us That We Have Been With Jesus.

There Is Nothing More Certain In Time Or Eternity Than What Jesus Christ Did On The Cross.

It Is Easy For Us To Tarnish God's Character Because He Never Argues Back; He Never Tries To Defend Or Vindicate Himself.