Wrath

Proverbs 15:1 (NKJV) -

"A soft answer turns away wrath ...."

Sand

The amount of time that you will spend on this earth, as compared to all of eternity, is like a single speck of sand, on a single beach, as compared to all of the sand, on all of the beaches, on all of the earth.

The Snail

Charles Haddon Spurgeon:

"By perseverance the snail reached the ark."

All

"Wherever you are, be all there."

- Christian missionary Jim Elliot, killed while attempting to minister to the Waodani people of Ecuador on January 8, 1956, at age 28.

MLK & Faith

"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."

- The words of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This Sunday is the 83rd anniversary of his birth. Few people remember that Dr. King was just 39 years old when he was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1968.

The Fires

"If God has chosen you for trials, rejoice because God only chooses His best servants to go through the fires."

- Pastor Terry Tuley of Atlanta, Georgia, USA, citing Job as an example of a servant who exhibited faithful steadfastness in the midst of going through "the fires" in his life.

The Fires

Pastor Terry Tuley of Atlanta, Georgia, USA, and author of "Battlefields and Blessings: Stories of Faith and Courage from the Civil War", wrote:

"If God has chosen you for trials, rejoice because God only chooses his best servants to go through the fires."

Tuley added:

"Is the Lord trusting you with adversity? Could it be that He knows your faithful character, and He wants to display it before others?"

Tuley cites Job as an example of someone "being steadfast even in difficult circumstances." Job was an example of God using one of His "best servants to go through the fires."

Are you going "through the fires" in your life right now?

Perhaps God sees you as one of His best servants, and perhaps He desires to show your faithful character and testimony to others, even in the midst of your life's fires.