Thoughts On God

I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: ‘I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept His claim to be God.’ That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would be either a lunatic — on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronising nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.

–C.S. Lewis [Mere Christianity (1952)]

America is a less Christian nation than it was 20 years ago, and Christianity is not losing out to other religions, but primarily to a rejection of religion altogether, a survey published Monday found.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/03/09/us.religion.less.christian/index.html

“Does that mean,” asked Mack, “that all roads will lead to you?”
“Not at all,” smiled Jesus as he reached for the door handle to the shop. “Most roads don’t lead anywhere. What it does mean is that I will travel any road to find you.”

I live in the spirit of prayer. I pray as I walk about, when I lie down, and when I rise up. And the answers are always coming. Thousands and tens of thousands of times have my prayers been answered. When once I am persuaded that a thing is right and for the glory of God, I go on praying for it until the answer comes.

–George Mueller

Being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.—Saint Paul, Romans 5:1

You can have peace in your own heart even though all around you is war and confusion. You can have peace by personally receiving Jesus Christ into your own heart by asking Him to come in. He says, “Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any man hear My voice and open the door, I will come in to him.” [Rev 3:20]—David Brandt Berg

“In the fear [reverence] of the Lord there is strong confidence, and His children will have a place of refuge.” [Pro 14:26] This place of refuge is promised to all believers, yet so few venture therein. I say unto you, come aside, My dear one. Come under My wings, into My place of refuge, that you may experience My love and My peace.—Jesus